Sea Fantasy

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Sea Fantasy is a single player role playing game with a kids theme. It was developed by METASLA and was released on January 7, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.

Save the world with fishing!? This is the story of two young men who go on an adventure to catch the mysterious sea creatures called "Sea'Az". This is not a peaceful fishing game. The end of the world is approaching... ▼”Sea'Az” a mysterious marine organism In the world of Sea Fantasy, marine life called “Sea'Az” inhabit the oceans and lakes. They vary in appearance, size and rarity, and all Sea…

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Audience ScoreBased on 206 reviews

story37 positive mentions

grinding18 negative mentions

Engaging and fun fishing mechanics with unique gimmicks and boss fights that keep gameplay fresh and satisfying.
Addictive RPG progression system including character leveling, equipment crafting with a wide variety of rods and hooks, and exploration of diverse islands.
Charming pixel art style and cozy atmosphere, well-optimized for devices like the Steam Deck, with frequent developer updates improving translation and quality-of-life.

The story is simple and the dialogue and translation quality are sometimes awkward or poorly done, detracting from the narrative experience.
The crafting UI and menu navigation can be unintuitive and cumbersome, with some players finding crafting and inventory management frustrating.
Some players experienced performance issues on certain systems and found some boss fights or achievement grinding to be tedious or frustrating.

story
108 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story is generally simple, lighthearted, and serves primarily to support the game's enjoyable fishing and progression mechanics rather than stand out on its own. While the narrative is charming and easy to follow, it is often described as shallow, generic, and occasionally hindered by rough English localization. Overall, the story provides a fun, if unremarkable, backdrop that complements the gameplay without being the main focus.
- “You have reasons to go to each area, a reason why each fish is there, the side quests are fun and lighthearted, and the progression of going from catching a fish on your home island to the end game never felt forced.”
- “The story is uncomplicated and holds the game together as much as it needs to, giving you a chance to feel like you're accomplishing something heroic without being overbearing.”
- “The music is fine, the gameplay feels good and the story is good enough even if the English translation does feel a bit lackluster.”
- “Bad: the writing--the story was the most hackneyed, boring, paint-by-the-numbers snooze-fest that felt like it was written by ChatGPT, but trained only on middle school creative writing projects.”
- “The stats and gear don't feel like they do anything (that and I just end up finding special stuff on the ground that's just way better than any of the current stuff I could craft) and the story is all over the place, everything goes way too fast and just leaves me looking at my screen like ???”
- “I've beaten the game, I've 95% completed basically everything there is to do, and I have no idea what happened in the story at all.”
gameplay
102 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay centers on a fun and creative fishing mechanic blended with RPG elements such as crafting, leveling, and boss battles featuring unique mechanics that keep the experience fresh and engaging. While the core fishing loop is simple and occasionally grindy, varied mini-games, diverse fish behaviors, and added strategic layers maintain player interest throughout. Overall, the gameplay is praised for being addictive, satisfying, and well-executed despite some simplicity and minor repetitive aspects.
- “The gameplay looks simple at first, but they’ve made wonderfully creative additions for each boss. Additionally, many rods offer various effects that enhance the initial gameplay.”
- “You might think that just fishing all the time as gameplay might get stale, but a lot of the fish and every single boss fight has some unique mechanic that spices things up, so you won't get bored of the gameplay.”
- “Sea fantasy is a beautifully crafted fishing RPG that masterfully blends fishing mechanics with action RPG elements, making it much more than your typical fishing game.”
- “The gameplay is extremely basic, with pretty much only boss fights changing it up (and usually not in a good way).”
- “The main conceit, the fishing 'battle', quickly loses its luster as a main central driving mechanic.”
- “The fishing mechanics are fully dependent on simple stats which results in extremely grindy gameplay of fishing for exp to level up, and eventually fishing to get specific fish in order to make a fishing rod with better stat modifiers.”
grinding
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding in the game is generally well-balanced, offering a paced and optional experience that supports progression without excessive fetch quests or repetition. However, some boss fights and specific achievements, like catching 5,000 fish, can require more tedious grinding, which may feel repetitive or frustrating for some players. Overall, fans of fishing minigames and light grinding will appreciate the blend of exploration, crafting, and challenge, though the difficulty spikes may demand significant time investment.
- “There are times you will have to grind to reach a high enough power stat to do proper damage to these bosses, which usually isn't too bad, but the grinding required for the final boss was a bit of a slog.”
- “Started off fun....then turned into a tedious grind fest just to try and beat the dragon, didn't even bother beating the game it was so annoying.”
- “The fishing mechanics are fully dependent on simple stats which results in extremely grindy gameplay of fishing for EXP to level up, and eventually fishing to get specific fish in order to make a fishing rod with better stat modifiers.”
music
15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game receives mixed feedback, with some players appreciating its charming, old JRPG feel and fitting atmosphere, while others criticize certain tracks as repetitive, limited, or even uncomfortable. Overall, the soundtrack is seen as adequate but not outstanding, balancing between enjoyable background ambiance and occasional annoyance.
- “Good progression, rewarding exploration, meaningful crafting, creature collection, nice music and graphics, creative mechanics and a good enough story!”
- “This is a really good game, great RPG with nice soundtrack and fun gameplay.”
- “Story is easy to follow, gameplay is quick and the OST has a nice old JRPG feel.”
- “There are two absolutely horrible tracks in this game that caused me biological discomfort: the 'danger/suspense music' and the background music for the underground volcano.”
- “The music was kind of limited, toeing the line between background music and repetitive annoyance.”
- “As a negative, the music is pretty meh.”
graphics
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's graphics are widely praised for their detailed, charming, and visually appealing art style that enhances exploration and immersion. While simple, the visuals are consistently described as beautiful and unique, contributing significantly to the overall enjoyable experience.
- “Simple but addictive game with beautiful graphics.”
- “Boss battles have different obstacles, the graphics are fun and unique, the story line and concept are very fun.”
- “Graphic is a huge selling point for this game, there are so many suspiciously detailed and nicely drawn NPCs that are not in any way important to the plot.”
- “F graphic and simulation fishing games”
- “Tl;dr there's nothing about the game that makes it a fishing game aside from simple visuals; it could just as easily be a flower collecting game with a quick reskin.”
optimization
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game suffers from optimization issues, particularly during platforming sections where freezing and throttling occur even on high-end systems, impacting smooth gameplay and quick time event timing. Although performance has improved with patches, the game still struggles to run consistently at higher frame rates. However, some users report minimal performance problems, suggesting experiences may vary.
- “This also makes the timing for the particularly small and fast moving quick time events more difficult than it would normally be if you have access to a monitor that exceeds 60fps, although they will need to commit to some drastic optimization in order to achieve higher fps so priorities for now.”
- “There are some rough edges, certainly, and performance has been improving at each patch, but the plot is coherent and the dialogue is easy to follow even when a word might not be quite right for a particular sentence.”
- “I think some of the other negative reviews on performance and translation are overblown. I didn't notice any particular performance issues, and the translation errors were extremely minor and never prevented me from understanding what characters were saying.”
- “Speaking on the platforming, the game is poorly optimized; it froze on me several times in those areas.”
- “With that out of the way, it just isn't quite optimized enough to play for a consistent session without some kind of throttling issue on a 5900x/3090 system.”
- “This also makes the timing for the particularly small and fast-moving quick time events more difficult than it would normally be if you have access to a monitor that exceeds 60fps, although they will need to commit to some drastic optimization in order to achieve higher fps.”
humor
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is subtle and light-hearted, with some charmingly quirky and unexpectedly funny dialogue, especially noted in the translation. While the gameplay includes creative and amusing mechanics like fighting fish and crafting, the dialogue itself offers mixed experiences, ranging from minimal to genuinely funny moments. Overall, the humor adds a pleasant, gentle charm without being overtly comedic.
- “Fun sense of humor, plenty of fish to catch and rods to craft.”
- “The translation has a few charming quirks, with some unexpectedly funny dialogue that had me smiling.”
- “The translation is a bit weird in some places, but the story and dialogue have a lot of incredibly funny moments.”
emotional
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Users expressed a mixed emotional response, feeling deeply frustrated and insulted by the game's poor background music, yet surprisingly engaged and emotionally invested in the fishing system and its meaningful stat mechanics.
character development
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Character development in the game is a mixed experience: some find it lacking and NPCs unengaging, while others praise its surprising depth and twists that maintain player investment throughout.
- “It’s surprisingly rich, with enough twists and character development to keep players invested from beginning to end.”
- “No character development, just real NPC energy all around, including you: the player.”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Sea Fantasy runs smoothly and stably across different setups, including the Steam Deck (both docked and undocked) and older hardware, with minimal reported issues or performance drops.
- “Sea Fantasy runs great on the Steam Deck (both docked and undocked), which is a nice bonus.”
- “It runs great for me; although I saw one person reporting issues, I didn't experience any frame drops or high CPU usage, and I'm using a 5-year-old laptop.”