The Apple Arcade Game
Version 1.0.122025-01-15
Hold onto your hats, sailors, our latest update for Ridiculous Fishing: EX—the one and only fishing game with chainsaws, toasters, and pew-pews—has arrived!
Billy’s Big Hat Hunt, featuring the Rays of the Week, is here! We’ve got 20 brand new fish to track down, including:
FRESH FISH
• A new fish every day with Rays of the Week! Find a different Ray each day!
• 12+ super rare fish that can only be found when wearing the correct hat…and sometimes in very strange conditions…
GLORIOUS GEAR
• Equip the Lasso Hook to catch a single fish at a time and boost its value!
• Don the Zip Hat to fish faster than the speed of light!
MORE MODIFIERS
• Get a hook wobble with Zigzag
• Richochet off any fish you saw through with the Bounce Saw
• Watch out for Scissors that’ll cut clean through your fishing line
• Chainsaw fast and furious with the Dash-Saw
• Keep up with fish afflicted with Zoomies as they dart across the screen
• With Time Hook, time is slowed, except when you move or chainsaw
• Skip straight to shooting with No Fishing
• Stay on your toes when your hook becomes invisible with Stealth
• Lock in when fish become harder to recognize with Incognito
• Test fate with Gun Roulette and receive a random weapon every time you reload
• Double your catch with Duplicator
• Hit garbage to jolt on-screen fish with Zap Trash
BUG BUSTING
• Improved push notification system for Pro Fishing Tour
• Reworked level modifiers
• Updated Fishopedia with better efficiency and a scroll bar
• Fixed Periscope on controllers
• Yo-Yos retain depth records
And lots more to come soon!
An updated, handcrafted game about fishing with guns, chainsaws & toasters.
Follow Billy as he tries to find redemption from his uncertain past. Chase your destiny on the high seas and embark on a heroic quest for gills and glory.
An all-new 3D Ridiculous Fishing built from the ground up by the original award-winning team, with new features:
+ Gorgeous 3D art
+ An all new Pro Fishing Tour endgame mode
+ Exclusive new content
+ Leaderboards
+ Total rewrite from the ground up
+ All new guest fish
+ BikBok™
Based on Vlambeer’s popular 2013 original, Ridiculous Fishing was lovingly handcrafted over the course of two years by Vlambeer (Super Crate Box, Nuclear Throne), Zach Gage (SpellTower, Knotwords, Good Sudoku, Really Bad Chess, Card of Darkness) and Greg Wohlwend (Threes, Hundreds, TumbleSeed), and remade in collaboration with KO_OP (GNOG, Winding Worlds).
Winner of the Apple Design Award 2013; Nominated for the 2011 Independent Games Festival Awards; Declared Most Important News Story 2011 by industry magazine Control International; Featured in The New York Times
Praise for the original *Ridiculous Fishing*:
"Ridiculous Fishing is such a complete package that it's an effortless recommendation." ~ Eli Hodapp (TouchArcade) - (5 / 5)
"Every aspect of the game, from the rewarding upgrade system to the unique graphics, displays an intricate craftsmanship we rarely see on the App Store." ~ Chris Reed (Slide2Play) - (4 / 4)
"Vlambeer's game is, as its title suggests, ridiculous. In its simple, gleeful rhythms of play, it's sublime, too." ~ EDGE - (9 / 10)
"One of the most mechanically satisfying experiences you'll ever find, and wrapped in a dazzlingly cool aesthetic." ~ Eli Cymet (Gamezebo) - (5 / 5)
"It makes the mass destruction of innocent sea life absolutely adorable." ~ Andrew Webster (The Verge)
"I've come to think of Ridiculous Fishing as the unofficial game of Wes Anderson's movie The Life Aquatic." ~ Rob Hearn (PocketGamer)
"Ridiculous Fishing is from an alternate iPhone gaming universe where Nintendo is the production quality standard and action is everything." ~ Robert Ashley (A Life Well Wasted)
"A rare pearl amidst the endless sardines of iOS games." ~ Chris Bateman (International Hobo)
"I'm hooked up to an IV and playing Ridiculous Fishing. One is medicine, the other is a painkiller." ~ Ben Kuchera (PA Report)
"Ridiculous Fishing is something very special." ~ exp. Magazine
Content IncludesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumourInfrequent/Mild Sexual Content and NudityInfrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
