Reel of Fortune
Reel of Fortune is a fishing roguelike game where you gather materials, craft baits and try to catch the legendary Golden Trout.
The game was made during the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge 2025 using Godot.
Controls:
- Arrow keys or WASD - Move
- Tab, E or I - Inventory
- M - Mute music
- Mouse - Drag items, pick up items, start fishing
Fishing minigame:
- You catch the fish by dragging it all the way to the left edge. The fish escapes if it reaches the right edge. The fish is moved left when the colored bar is in the same position with the fish and left mouse button is pressed.
- The fish will do a strong sprint to the right (and releases some bubbles) if it has some stamina left and it is too close to the left edge. Wearing it down before catching is recommended.
- The color of the bar indicates difficulty. Red is hard, yellow is challenging and green is easy. Try to catch smaller fish and buy a better fishing rod to improve your chances of catching bigger fish.
Tips:
- Your objective is to catch the legendary Golden Trout and sell it.
- Break rocks and other obstacles by walking towards them. This consumes one point of stamina.
- When crafting baits, the end result gets the attributes of the ingredients. However, opposite attributes cancel each other, for example, warm and cold, and sticky and slippery.
- Different fish species are attracted to different types of bait. Some fish can be caught only at deeper levels. Check your journal for information about fish you have caught.
- Each level has downstairs that lead to deeper levels. You can buy and sell items between levels.
- Higher quality baits last longer.
Music by TipTopTomCat
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I don't get how to catch the fish? I am keeping the bar aligned with them and draining their stamina to 0%, but then nothing happens and they eventually just get away. Cool aesthetic, but really needs a bit more clarity.
I wrote some extra instructions related to fishing to the description. Try to drag the fish all the way to the left by using the moving bar. Wearing it down to zero stamina prevents it from doing strong sprints to the right. The color of the bar indicates difficulty, red and yellow means difficult. Perch is the easiest fish and it can be caught with small luminescent baits.
love this game my only issue is that the energy goes down to fast and I end up dying can u plz tweak that if u plan on updating this
Spending enough time in the first floors and catching quality fish is recommended since items like cave moss that gives easy stamina are rarer when you go deeper. Getting a better rod is also important because the first one is pretty bad. I might do an enhanced version later with difficulty settings because the current version is quite difficult.
oh thx for the advice the moss info is only info u can get from the dev or an veteran player lol so thx for that to i really do hope u continue to update this game u could really make some money if u polish and make it better 😁