Epic NPC Man Nice Day for Fishing Steam Charts & Stats

Although it works well as a basic-level fishing game, it's real delight is in the Easter eggs for fans of VLDL's "Epic NPC Man". From custom sails to lost hammers and corny puns ("Cod Zombie", anyone?), Nice Day For Fishing is fun and engaging.

The game is enjoyable as a fan of the series at least as far as the beginning ~3 hours but you can't change keybinds which makes a decent and otherwise relaxing if repetitive game annoying to play to play with a non-standard layout and makes me feel a bit insulted considering how new this game is.

It's a fun game, simple with a lot of charm. Wonderful for a peaceful afternoon. It's always a Nice Day for Fishing

i really wanted to like this game, but it's just boring and not fun to fish at all. every aspect of this game feels repetitive in a bad way... fishing, questing and the story probably worst is running left and right basically most of the time, just interrupted by some fishing the pixel art is nice and the idea to fight bosses is an engaging idea i caught ~10 of 60 fish species and tried to get into this game multiple times, but it just didn't click. might try later again, but for now i'm done with this

Took me about 18hrs, but I was dumb and made it harder on myself than it needed to be. I didn't use items as often as I should have. They really help! Overall, it's a pretty decent fishing game and pretty good as a licensed tie-in game. The fishing mechanics are interesting and intuitive. It's pretty easy to play and they do a good job of telling you what to do next without completely holding your hand. I hope more indie creators make little games like this. I have a few complaints, though. It drags on a bit, especially toward the end, and especially if you try to complete all of the mayor's sidequests. The last one of which requires you to gather three late game items that only spawn once every few minutes. You have to sit there twiddling your thumbs waiting for it to respawn. Also, for a project based on a bunch of actor's, I would have expected more voice acting. It's not necessary for every game, clearly, but it really seemed off-brand in this instance. They only have a couple repeating generic lines. On that note, maybe it's just me, but the woodcutter has a pop in his greeting recording that drove me insane by the end. Overall, generally good but crawls across the finish line.

I am nearly done my 100% and please if you play this game just don't 100% it. Its cute and funny at times but its bare bones and really runs with the npc fisherman meme almost to hell. Again I enjoyed my time and the price point is great but the grind in this game is hindered by randomness and the core gameplay loop while not ever terrible is never actually all that great. If you think this review is negative I still recommend trying the demo and if you have fun please buy the game and support the guys.

60% fetch quests, 30% fishing, 10% exploration and interesting content. After first 30 min feels like a chore. Fishing mechanics is cool but it doesn't change and gets repetitive real fast. VLDL theme is cool but they didn't even bother voice act it.

A lot of positive reviews seem like bots, I seriously cannot understand how someone could play this game for more than a few hours and enjoy it. The fishing is almost entirely the same at least up to where I am (past the third boss), as someone mentioned in another review the game is entirely fetch quest based i.e. talk to someone, they need items, travel to the opposite side of the unlocked play area, fish up said items, travel back with zero fast travel. The fishing is also tedious and annoying in the worst of ways, one of which being that you cannot move the line while under water, which is only made a problem when you realize you also cannot zoom out to judge if you are at the right location to cast. You don't get any skills to manipulate the hook in a way that gives the player any agency. When you find the fish god you assume you are gonna learn how to manipulate your hook while under water except all he does is make the game MORE tedious and frustrating by introducing slow and difficult to use currents that switch from going into a cave or out of it or are just slapped randomly throughout the world. What's worse about these currents is that sometimes (accompanied by the aforementioned lack of a zoom out) you'll line your hook up and cast it down for the fourth time finally getting the distance correct to drop right on top of what you need only to catch the edge of a current on your way down and have no choice but to come all the way back up and re-calculate. A final, minor gripe I have is the stun mechanic, a lot of fish have special move counters that build as you damage them with specific special moves per fish, one such move is a stun which will happen at least once every time you catch this fish for a very long time. This game also has a parry mechanic yet parrying the stun doesn't negate the status effect meaning you HAVE to use a material that you will definitely (quickly) run out of if you use it every time you would get stunned meaning there is no consistent way to avoid being forced to do nothing for around 6 seconds or more while catching one fish in a game that expects you to catch thousands. The game is just flat out boring and repetitive in a way that the devs should have known would make for an un-fun experience. The game could have been made to be shorter to alleviate some of this if they wanted to stay steadfast in their determination to ruin fishing games, but instead people have upwards of 20 hours on record saying they still haven't 100%'d the game.

Okay, how do i put this. If you like VLDL, you will love this game. Lots of references, LOTS of voice acting. Gameplay is okay. And then we get to the classic Team 17 errors, just like Escapists 2 and Survivalists: Weird menu bugs, dragged out grinding that is way too restricted and pointless, and again an ending that doesnt do anything. you reach the end, you dont gain any xp, you dont get gold, nothing. you get the achievement and then the gamestate is just pre-boss.

It was very linear and repetitive(run all the way to the right, then all the way left, then back and forth over and over). It was fun for the first hour or so due seeing these characters in a game, but its a bit shallow.