Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 11:14 am
Idle Fishing Story – Entertainment Game Review
Idle Fishing Story is a Entertainment/Simulation/Strategy game from Metamoki Inc., first launched in 18th December 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,999+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Fishing Story Stand Out
Tap, Catch, Profit!
What are you waiting for, Captain? Sailors are gearing up for the World Championship Fishing league! Make good use of Captain Raymond's salmon boat and navigate your way to a prosperous Fish Empire. Click and enjoy this addictive idle clicker game!
FEATURES
-Sail to rare and unique fishing spots to expand your Fishing Empire.
-Recruit captains to man the deck while you're away, you can even hire the amazing Captain Raymond.
-Unlock epic boats like "The Slammin' Salmon," "The Codfather," and many more!
-Upgrade your ships and hire your captains, then sit and watch your profits rise with the tides.
-Travel the seas in legendary weekly events to catch fish in Rome, Egypt, the Caribbean Sea, and more!
STORY
Captain Raymond and his daughter Poppy are seeing their family business destroyed under the threat of a big, professional fishing brand. If they lose this pro fishing event, they will have to sell their Rock Bottom Fishing Company! It doesn't matter if you are a fishing beginner or an expert, you can click as much as you like to help them win the competition and keep their most valuable asset!
Let's Sail, Cap’n!
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Fishing Story is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th February 2025
Recent improvements include:
Let’s Go Fishing! The latest update is here:
Fixed UI being obscured by the Dynamic Island.
Various bug fixes.
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Download & Availability
Idle Fishing Story is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The game has tasking structure similar to adventure communist but has poor advancement. There is zero reason to have five upgrade cards or spend upgrade points missions back to back to back to back to back. Other than to give us a big middle finger. Greedy. We wish life had more to offer so that we did not feel compelled to waste away playing this derivative drivel.
One of our missions cuz its acting like Im not spending coins so Im about to delete this game on our phone.
Love playing this game, so fun. However, about every 2 weeks or so, we have issues getting the app to load, like right now. Cant get it to open at all currently. Need to fix this bug please.
We finished level 60 and now Im just stuck in limbo because there arent any more levels.. What?! Please make more levels.
Ive been stuck on one level for over 2 months or so. The goals to move on to next level are so unachieveable we stopped playing the main game. We love the events (even when we use gems and not get the correct amount of $$ doing the skip time). Of course when we reach out to support, the event is over and we cant provide them with more info/pictures. Our other issue is being stuck on the loading page. It has stayed on the page with barely 5% loaded for a couple hours. Ive tried restarting our phone, closing the game entirely, and even turning off our WiFi and nothing.
One of the best idle games Ive played.
This is a really hot start on learning deep sea fishing. We plan to be an expert fisherman. It is also relaxing.
Great game. Super relaxing and fun. Sadly there havent been any updates in a while. Are there any new updates in the works.
We play this game nightly, and theres one major thing we would love to see added/fixed. The dockside person collecting the fish doesnt pick up any while walking back, which sometimes holds us up on collecting cash. Another issue is while walking twards the boats to collect, it sometimes skips the first few boats and wont collect the fish. Otherwise this game is ADDICTING!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE that Im not bombarded with ads every 30 seconds, they let YOU choose if you want to watch one for a reward over all we cant wait too see figures uodates and content for this game.
We have been an avid player of this game for at least a year. We have now reached a point where in the longer has locations available for us to progressed to. We would love to play more we even just completed the event and no longer did another one pop up right after. We might have to delete the game if there is no more for us to progress to, but we would rather, there be more levels. Thank you so much for making this game, and if future levels are added, thank you so much for those as well. Tycoons are the best! Re: Also, anyone saying there are too many ads, the ads are optional for a three hour bonus or for chests and loot you get free anyways. We maybe watch three ads a session and Ive progress fairly quickly considering Ive basically beat the game. Dont listen to them, try it out.
We love playing this game and would give it 5 stars. The only problem is that our boats keeping fishing offline, but our dockhands dont! This causes such a backlog it makes it near impossible to earn money, because you are only selling fish from your first boat.
This game does not have much to do in stead of clicking and collecting and thats pretty much it, we like that there arent much ads but overall its kinda boring.
We honestly enjoyed this game, played mostly the events until we noticed an issue with what our earnings during the event were and what they were reported as on the leaderboard. We messaged support during 3 different events and each time got the response of we will forward it to our development team. Ok cool but at the same time this can cost you to get less rewards during the event which can make playing the regular game a lot more difficult.
We have been imaging this game for a couple of years now, and really really enjoy it and wish to continue playing but; now we have come to a stumping lvl for moving on. When is the new season coming.
Will you ever add new levels? Would love to continue.
The game is entertaining, but eventually the storyline stops randomly and its just completing milestones to reach the next level. Ive reached the last location and there hasnt been an update in months which is interesting since theres no story for the developers to continue.
We spent hours upon hours on this game. Just go in today and see that all of our progress was deleted and it started us all over. Why. We dont even want to play anymore.
Love the events the most but wish that the leaderboard update accurately.
Playing really only for events now because Ive played all the main game levels :( make more levels.
Ive been plying this game forever. We wish you didnt take away the floating chests in the events, it really helped out. Like Im not trying to spend all of our gems on one event and we also do not want to pay a lot to get gems. We do wonder if you guys will ever update the main game? Ive reached the last level and maxed out all our boats/captains so its a little boring now.
Been playing forever and recently lost everything. No update or explanation – just gone. Was hoping they would do an update but doesnt look like it will happen. It is time to delete this one. No use playing a game that fails to fix bugs, make improvements or do basic maintenance. Too bad.
Its messing up. We couldnt even upgrade. From one boat. To the other. Big disappointment. Definitely a bug needs to be fixed.
Support is no help being close 70% of the week. You can play the event even spend gems , play for two – three hours and get off. Come back later and find out everything is reset back to the day before, your gems are gone still. Figured the first time was maybe switch back maps from event to make sure. But no still happen again. Why would we want to play a game that wont keep our game saved up even from switching between the event and main game. With bug this bad, we will not play any of this companys games again. Update to the response: Pointless to contact them, tried and no response still till this day. Contacted them two days before this bad review.
We were really e game until it started crashing constantly. We deleted and reinstalled, have plenty of memory and storage. Frustrating.
We got to the 3rd level with spaceship and astronaut. We couldnt get anything to move except for getting more mining done. Had to delete the game.
Couldnt get pass the intro a ignorant swearing African American and a well off white family.. May not have been their intentions but it was.
Is there an option to opt out of ads.
Ive loved this game but after the recent update the dock and delivery are broken. We went from hailing AA+ to millions. So our progress is ridiculously slow. Please fix this.
We love this game and the events, however, when playing an event, another player reaches 6.5ai in 3-4 hours. We assume they just spent a bunch of money to win. But then at the end of the event, he still only has 6.5ai. They didnt make even 10% of their cash over 3 days. How do they make that much and not make anything after that?! They must be cheating and this just makes it unfair to everyone. He doesnt even name his character!!! Player83150 is cheating.
It keeps booting our son out of the game, when he tries to go to the next location.
Up until the recent update, ads were only presented when you chose them. Watching an ad for a chest, or a four hour bonus, was worth it! But with the last update, Ive been getting ads (specifically for one game) that pop up at random, with no benefit. Ive accidentally tapped on them while trying to do other things, and the most recent one even made the rest of the game non-interactive, so we had to close out entirely to be able to play again. If there were a remove ads IAP, or if they at least didnt have interstitial ads, Id keep playing, but as it is, its not worth continuing.
We like to play this game to pass time at work or other stuff and in the pirate event it is not showing any more achievements to get, so below the bar to fill there is nothing no goals so we cannot progress in the event. Other than that great game and we have had no other problems.
We got hooked to this game. Get it? This game was amazing and super fun we normally like a lot of idle games but this on was out of the water.
We do like this game a lot. The events are practically nonstop and we love that. However, we are now capped at level 50. More levels please.
We do not think that this game is good for little kids we do not appreciate that cruising.
We love idle games but most are boring. When we first saw this we didnt think it would be fun but it turned out to be very addictive. We LOVE it so much and we cant hide it. If we didnt download this game we think we would have died. Anyways,we just want to tell you that you make great content.
The upgrades show, we go to upgrade then boom it locks the upgrade button and event and anything interact-able. Helpppppppp us we just wanna play this game.
The game is great but for a game 4 + why do you have naked woman in your ads.
We think it is a great game. We just wish it had more to offer. Like less adds. We also would like to earn more in less time.
It didnt save our progress but other wise is a good game.
To much tipping sorry but its just to much tippeng we need a brack can you have a auto clicker it will bee easy also why does the she husk.
Good idle game, doesnt force ads on you, although you can watch ads for bonuses.
So far it has been a pretty fun and cute game. The story is pretty interesting and the events are extremely fun. The downside is as you go further and further in levels you hit the issue of a bottle neck because of your trucking (hauling fish away to sell) and your carrying (bring fish caught to the truck). We have a backlog of about 80 billion fish because it takes so long to upgrade those two pieces of the game. Our dockhand is unable to match the speed of our boats and is forced to only bring in the third lowest paying fish while leaving the highest paying catch on the dock. If there was a way to make the dockhand go for the highest value and then work down this wouldnt be an issue. With bring in the third lowest fish we have stagnated with the amount of money we can bring in from selling the fish.
Game keeps crashing at the end of the second level. We like the game, but cant advance.
Game is a rip off. Typical game that doesn't allow you to succeed. Click bait garbage.
Ive been playing the game for over an month and everything was good the game was kinda fun. Then it updated or something and now its broken when ever we try to watch ads for anything in it making it almost unplayable. Hopefully this is fixed soon.
Game doesnt work as it should and god forbid you try and contact… After you used real money. Well looks like you guys suckered us. Wont do that again.
Ok game, but on exiting the app, whenever we reopen it, it resets our progress quite a few steps back. Quite frustrating. Ive been seeing the same story cutscenes at least 4-5 times per chapter, and the loss of progress is irritating (especially since it undoes any cards obtained through the chests).
Love this game but we have been waiting months for new islands. Please add some soon.
842FD is our friend code if you want to add more profits.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.6.39
- Size: 237.20 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Metamoki Inc.
Last updated: 11th February 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: Metamoki Inc.