Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 10:56 am
Last Fish – Action Game Review
Last Fish is a Action/Casual game from Pyrosphere, Lda, first launched in 14th December 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 22+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Last Fish Stand Out
Last Fish is a stylish black and white action game about the survival of a tiny fish in toxic water filled with goo.
Eat food, avoid goo, escape the shadowfish. Survive.
FEATURES
- Intuitive controls – tilt the device or use a controller!
- Stylish monochromatic Retina Display graphics
- Atmospheric soundtrack
- Simple and addictive game mechanics
- 45 levels and 5 arcade stages
- 3 star performance score on each level
PRESS QUOTES
"Last Fish felt poetic in some ways." – DIYGamer
"Last Fish is a satisfying swim through a world of light and shadows." – Kotaku
"Within 15 minutes of downloading the game I was hooked." – AppAdvice
"Last Fish is proof that games can be artistic, and more importantly that artistic games can be fun." – TouchMyApps
GAME MECHANICS
Control the fish by tilting the phone/tablet.
Eat food to gain health. Avoid touching goo as it decreses health. Complete the objectives but beware of the shadowfish.
LEVELS
In each level you have to complete one of four objectives: survive for a specified amount of time; quickly follow a trail of rings; clear checkpoints; eat food with caution to reach a specific amount of health. Every level is different, be it food quantity, goo quantity, speed, size, movement patterns, health lost rate, number and speed of shadowfish. All these combined make each level unique.
ARCADE
Survive as long as possible. Arcade starts with lots of food and some goo, but over time the food gets more rare and more goo appears. The fish also loses more health as time passes. Then appears the shadowfish. Survive, until the inevitable end…
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Last Fish is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd June 2020
Recent improvements include:
Improve support for large screen devices
Download & Availability
Last Fish is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Downloaded when it was free. Then they tried to charge after only two levels! Deleting.
When we agreed to the free trial it said we could cancel it in settings at any time. Ive looked and looked through the app settings and all the phone settings and cant find anywhere to do that. Ive also tried to find a contact function rather than doing this in a review, but cant get to one either. Please let us know where we can cancel the free trial. Thanks! Obviously, a response and good experience and we will change the review rating.
Thank you for keeping this game on the App Store. We just discovered this game again after not playing it for probably five years. We were surprised that it's still on the App Store and is still being updated. We liked this game because of its simplicity, chilling and somber music, and haunting premise. These qualities make for a memorable and timeless iOS experience.
Why doesn't the app have an option to keep the screen from auto-locking? For a game where the controls are built around use of the accelerometer and the user scarcely touches the screen, this is a feature that is sorely needed.
Well done. Great game. We highly recommend it.
To us, this is a gem of a tilting game. It has a dark, calm atmosphere and simple, engaging gameplay. We agree with others that games like this depend totally on the responsiveness of the controls. At least on the iPad 2 and air, the controls are smooth and exact, making the game a pleasure to play. A nice surprise.
What we like is this simple little game. One week and we're already 16 levels of 45 levels. Touch screen to pause. Gray scale game is nice after color overload from Disney . Challenging yet simple. Your fish is full of light. The black things take away from that and the bright things help you level up. So much you can't see in the dark. Hold on to the light and avoid the dark.this is an over simplistic game but we love it.
We rarely review games or rate them, but after playing this one we couldn't just not thank the developers! It's simple, clean and the graphics amazingly executed. Reminded us of an anime named {Mushishi} the episode (one eyed fish) in particular. This game gives us the same feeling of excitement and anticipation the anime did. If anything we'd recommend the developers to recreate the games app icon, it could look way better. It doesn't do the games graphics any Justice.
This is decent game for sphero. As there are not a lot of games for the device at this time, this app is well worth the $1 just to provide you with some variety.
Every time we try and connect sphero it just crashes. Definitely not worth the money if your hoping to use sphero.
When we tried to connect our sphero to the game it sent us back to our home screen. We tried to quit all of our apps and reinstall the game, but it didn't work. The worst part of it was that we payed for the game.
We have not been able to play this game with Sphero 2.0. As soon as it connects the app crashes. We have tested on a 5s and iPad Air with iOS 7.1. Both have the same problem.
Great game, great graphics, and with the Sphero it's an instant classic.
Feel like a big fish in a small sea. Love the different levels. Very hard to put down.
This is an awesomely addictive game. For $1 we have wasted days of our time.
It's an amazing game to bad you can't play games like this on a bus or in a car.
Fun but sad. We know it's just a game but it's not to far off from how certain parts of the ocean are becoming. The poor lone fish fighting only to die.
Default tilting controls worked so well we didn't try the others. Overall a good game for chasing high scores and also finishing missions. The Game Center stuff makes this a keeper for friendly competitions. Very solid and fun game.
Gameplay is just fine. Not at the level we were expecting.
Totally awesome! If you have a sphero get this game! Great without one but incredible with one.
We got this app and then forgot about it. We picked it up today and found that we really like it. It reminds us a little of the old Flash game called Fishy. It's not quite the same premise, but they've definitely captured the fun of that game.
Its pretty fun. Some levels are challenging though.
Great visuals and relaxing music. Simple yet fun to play for hours. Girls love it.
Simple and addicting. Tight tilt controls.
This is our favorite game on our iPod. It's a really fun relaxing and an addicting game. Worth the 99 cents :).
We love the simple black and white elegance of the game. Deserves to be on the top paid page.
Imy favorite game in iPad. It's simple and has really nice soundtrack<3.
Its fun and has a lot of levels. Get it.
A must have game! Very addictive. Provide enough fun and just like the graphic style.
We luv this app it's addicting and beautiful while also easy to control.
One of the best apps that we have. Though difficult at times, the challenges presented make the game that much better.
What more is there to say other than great freaking job! It was surreal.
We got it for free. We're immediately hooked with the tight controls and the art :F.
Very unique puzzle game, provides hours of fun.
Creepy and depressing, good gameplay though and arcade mode provides replay. It's a sad little game though, surreal even. Probably one of the few games that's ever spoken to us on an emotional level, we can barely stand the arcade modes because we know the fish will inevitably consumed by the tenebrous environment.
This app is pretty good, gamecenter and openfreit achievements as well. Gets some time to know what's going on, the black oil blobs you have to watch out for. It's a fun, challenging, and action packed adventure. Get this app, you will not regret it.
Relaxing and wonderful. Quite beautiful as well. Levels vary little, but was free, so hardly a complaint.
You play the last fish but are you? This game is simple at it's core, tilt to navigate through oil blobs eating food to survive. Levels also combine obstacles which do provide plenty of challenge the further you advance. That along with trying to 3 star each level adding an addictive gameplay element! They also included an arcade mode for added entertainment. Last Fish is pretty artistic and reminds us of the PSN game Flow. The games black and white theme is awesome but we personally wish there was a hint of color in the game. That would help indicate the toxic water stages better. We were well into the game before we realized certain levels ate our health without hitting the blobs. This is the type of game made for the platform that works well.
If you give it a chance. We didn't like it at first but after about 5 levels it grew on us.
Update Sadly, for reasons concerning a decidedly inferior clone of Last Fish to have emerged, and with the creator's approval, we now rescind everything written below, with the exception of only basic comments made about the game. A complete shame, really. Last Fish is likely to leave some apathetic and disappointed while frankly bored out of their minds, others scratching their heads in complete bewilderment, yet a third segment, of which Im firmly a part, that identifies with this abandoned and forsaken fishempathetic to its plight to endure, and sharing feelings of loss both for the forlorn creature as well as the bleak existence in which it struggles to survive. Did the developer(s) have in mind a deeply personal form of artistic expression (disguised as a game, in our opinion), oozing with psychosocial implications while tinged withdare we suggestan environmental agenda, or at the very least, the symbolism of one? We have no idea. In fact, its quite possible that Im just a bit sleep deprived and searching for larger meanings where few exist. Perhaps the designer is just some chump who on a Thursday afternoon, decided to cough out the blueprint of a simple fish eats food goo while avoiding black toxic goo and black enemy foe fish. Yet somehow we doubt it: Last Fish is visually stunning in its Minimalist designless a creation in black and white and one more in gradations of glowing light, or a distinct lack thereof. The Ambient soundtrack complements, enhances, and perhaps even defines this starkly beautiful near masterpiece (yes, we did go there). As we touched upon, while this is indeed a game on the surface, and for the user in its basic manipulation, the end result is no game at allits a multimedia artwork that draws the user in to peer down an abyss and bear witness to a world annihilated and left in utter despair. Once again, perhaps Im projecting a little too much of our own, you know, stuff, onto what we know other people would characterize as essentially a cat and mouse game thats too oversimplified, monochromatic (uh, hellothats the point, we would counter), and plain booooorrrrring, but perhaps not. Perhaps Im being just as cynical as a fate that Last Fish, one can sense, is also fleeing from. Filipe Lemosthats the seller listed for Last Fish in iTunesyour team (if you have one, and if you dont as this is all you, then Im truly impressed and seriously want to meet you), youve created something so desolate, elegiac, and hauntingly moving that we wonder if even you know how beautiful and powerful Last Fish is. So to the would-be downloader, if youre expecting some flashy game with a whirlwind of who knows what bouncing and bursting left and right in a fast-paced and frenetic 3-D landscape, politely leave The Fish and its doomed mission. Otherwise, download it. No free/lite/whatever version. It. And Filipe Lemos, irrespective of whether you cranked this out on a lazy Thursday afternoon, if your intention is never to touch it again and abandon your own abandoned creature, then that would make us even more despondent than we are while playing this ghastly beautiful thing that you label merely a game. Please dont do that. And if by contrast Last Fish represents way more than a Thursday afternoon diversion, and you wonder if anyone gets it, know that at least some of us do. Kudos.
You play a fish living in a toxic environment. To survive, you control your fish into the lighted circles. The atmosphere is bleak, dark, and claustrophobic. The controls, unfortunately, are too.
One simple change, the inclusion of a reverse-control option, and the game would be worth 4 stars, that's how frustrating we find them. Otherwise, it's rather similar to flOw and would probably be just as relaxing if it wasn't for the fish always going the wrong way.
Tilt controls are touchy and game just isn't very appealing.
This is a fun and challenging game. The arcade mode is great to see if you can get the world's best time.
Gameplay and the concept is top notch. Black and white effect is just perfect. More please.
Wow … This game really surprised us !!! When we downloaded it we tough it was gonna be boring !!! But NO now im hooked and cant let it go.
The concept of the game is incredibly simple, tilt your device so the fishy runs into the white globs/rings while avoiding the black globs (or deadly black shadow fish that will closely follow you at every turn. Your specific objectives, however, can vary a bit from mission to mission. Either it is a matter of seeing how quickly you can build up your life to a certain point (by gobbling the white globs as quickly as possible while avoiding the hazardous black globs floating all over the screen), quickly positioning yourslef in scoring rings, or trying to just survive for a certain amount of time (with your end score being based on your ending health). For each of these missions, if successful, you'll be rated 1-3 stars and open up the next mission. Even cooler, at least as far as we're concerned, is beyond these 0-3 star ratings for each mission, the game will track your best times and scores so even if you already got 3 stars, you can always shoot for an even BETTER score/time. The other point of these earned stars is to unlock endless arcade modes with no concrete win/loss conditions, just lasting as long as you can. There are at least 5 of these modes to unlock if you acquire enough stars, with your best scores tracked locally and on OF/GC. We've always liked this method of unlocking as not only does it give you some pay off, but you are free to decide how you get the stars…completing 10 levels at 1 star each or 5 levels at 2 stars. Even these Arcade modes are graded 1-3 stars and therefore can help you toward earning enough to unlock further Arcade levels.
We would have bought this game had we known about it. It has a beautiful art style and the music that accompanies it is great, it controls well and the levels are challenging but not cheap. A definitely must buy for anyone who like or loved Osmos, similar but also different enough.
This game epitomizes what iOS gaming is and should be. Other developers should take note. Fans of tilt to live should love this app. Can't wait to see what the developer comes up with in the future. Keep up the good work.
Fun, relaxing gameplay with "artsy" graphics. We don't know what the complaints are about–it runs fine on both our iPhone 4 AND our iPod touch 2G.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.0
- Size: 22.32 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Pyrosphere, Lda
Last updated: 23rd June 2020 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Pyrosphere, Lda