It depends on what you're after.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $4.99.
- Story and characters: 137 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Controls: 85 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 67 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 96 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 749 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The ideas, the writing, and the fish written there was good.
4) The cooking is not only not really enjoyable, and tedious if you're cooking large amounts (which happens easily since you can catch 5 small fish with a single net cast) but it's also clearly designed for controller controls.
The core gameplay loop centers around fishing, cooking, and trading within the vibrant ecosystem of Moonglow Bay.
The voxel art style enhances the game’s cozy charm, with colorful, stylized visuals that bring both the natural world and the townspeople to life in a way that feels inviting and personal.
This aspect, combined with the gentle pacing and atmospheric soundtrack, creates an emotional resonance that lingers long after the gameplay session ends.
5) This last isn't a *huge* problem, because it's not like it's broken, but so far, everything is *way* too easy.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $4.99 (−80%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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