Fish Tug

A fishing game with ten difficulty steps: hold to reel in a fish. Keep the line tight but don’t snap it, and give it line when it runs. Its runs change every day.

Controls

Hold the screen, the mouse button, or Space

Time limit

40 seconds

Score

Clear time, lower is better

Type

Skill

How to play Fish Tug

1. Hold to reel and let go to give line. The gauge on the left shows the line’s tension.
2. Reeling only brings the fish in while the line is tight: the marker has to be in the green.
3. Hold too long and the tension climbs into the red, and the line snaps.
4. Every so often the fish splashes and makes a run. While it runs it pulls the line tight by itself, so let go.
5. Bring it all the way in to land it (45 metres on difficulty 5). If it gets 20 metres further out than it started, it’s gone.
6. You start on difficulty 3 of 10. Clear a difficulty to unlock the next: a fish further out, runs that pull harder and less warning before them. Pick any unlocked difficulty with the arrows on the start card.

Tips

• Reel in short pulls: hold, let the marker drop, hold again.
• On difficulty 5 the splash comes half a second before the run. Let go as soon as you see it.
• Keep the marker high in the green. Slack line catches nothing.
• Everyone gets the same fish all day, and a new one at midnight UTC. “Practice a new layout” deals a fresh fish any time, off the leaderboard.