Seas of Hydra Reviews

Seas of Hydra? More like... Seas of PEAK

Just got this game and it's amazing!

I dropped my lure super far into the water and saw this big kraken thing for like half a second and then I had to play DDR with my reel to stop it from dropping 50ft per second. 1000/10 would be fed to magic turtle because of magic hat and getting distracted by sea monster again

I 100% love how you reel up fish i have only been playing for 15 MIN ATM but reely wanted to relay this. its a super chill fishing game so far I'm still learning the ropes. the turtle's hunger has become my mortal enemy give this thing some ozempic or something JK it took me a while to learn how to feed the turtle I don't remember if it was in the help or if I just missed it. This would be a fun phone game

FIRST, but its a great game its very replayable and there is a lot to learn to get a high score in the game.

I bought this because I want to support young indie game developers, so don't go in thinking it's going to be perfect. For what it is, I think it's fun and I like that it's really challenging. It's more of a game you challenge your friends to for high scores. To the Dev team: Love the game guys! Some quality of life improvements I would like to see: [olist] [*]A profile system - Allow players to enter a name on their first play, and upon playing in the future they can select it again. Upon losing it will auto enter the players name, so they can get back to the game asap :D [*]Night time music - I really enjoy the music, but even a good song can get old if listened too long. I think some night time music would be great, and it would make the transition from day to night more exciting. [/olist]

I've not played much so far, but I'm definitely enjoying it! All of the fish designs are very creative (even the silhouettes look SO cool), and I really enjoy the mechanics! It's a nice game to sit at my desk and relax with. I can already see myself racking up the hours trying to catch every type of fish...

Going off of my first impression, do I recommend this game? Yes (sort of). The main thing you need to keep in mind when going into this review is that the entire thing was produced in little over half a year by high school students, which is commendable, especially since the final result is quite nice. GAMEPLAY: What you see is what you get. Press A to throw the hook, arrow keys to move the hook around, and B to go to the shop. From there, you can get several upgrades to help speed up the line, hook speed, lighting radius, and bucket size. Of course, the main goal of the game is to get food for the turtle and see how long you can feed it before it's game over. After each run, you can put your score onto a leaderboard so you can see how well you did compared to previous runs. While simple, the gameplay is still enjoyable, probably best played in short intervals when you want to kill some time. The gameplay loop is relaxing and you can get a bit more time out of game if you're trying to discover every fish in the encyclopedia. In addition to this, the leaderboard and encyclopedia help with the replayability of the game. VISUALS AND SOUND: The art is nice to look at, with some of the designs of the fish being fairly clever and most of them being unique in their own ways so you can recognize them easily. Particularly enjoyed the catfish and the CoD fish. The music is relaxing and adds to the cozy atmosphere. Although, honestly, the reeling sound effect gets a bit grating after even a short play session. Same thing can be said about the seagull and purchasing sound effects. I feel as if it would have been better to have these sound effects play only when you start reeling and the seagull's initial dialogue upon entering the shop. CONTROLS AND MENU ELEMENTS: I can say that the hook and reeling controls are both smooth and responsive, with no real complaints from me in that regard. However, this is unfortunately where I had most of my issues. From my experience, using the joystick to navigate the shop while playing on Steam Deck is jittery, with it snapping back and forth between the item you want to go to and the item it was just on. Sometimes it seems like it also just does whatever it wants. In addition to this, you need the arrow keys and A & B keys, or a controller, to play this game. This could potentially be a problem for some, especially with the lack of key rebinding. I've also noticed an issue where some menu buttons cannot be clicked on with the mouse. These buttons (for me at least) include, the resume button, help button, and the return to menu button in the encyclopedia. Another small issue was the tutorial not directly mentioning how to feed the turtle. It took me longer than I would like to admit to figure out that you have to press A while the hook is extended to feed it. OVERALL: I think that Seas of Hydra is a short but sweet experience with enough charm to be worth checking out, with most of my complaints just being stuff that could probably be polished and patched out. The only major complaint I have about the game, and the reason I said "sort of" at the beginning of the review, is that I wish there was a bit more content. However, considering the short time frame the game was created in, the context, and what the game was going for, I can understand why there isn't that much. Perhaps another mode, some difficulties, or a freeplay option would be nice. At the current moment, I feel like there is some real potential with what could be done.

Its a Fun Simple Fishing Game Met the Devs At PAX West and they did a great job of showing off their game so i decided to check it out so far its fun game is rather intuitive and progresses well as you can fish at night and deeper once you purchase the light upgrade as for a rating 7/10 its simple but games don't have to be complex to be fun i recommend this game 100%