Finfold - 1.0.2

DEMO · WEEKS 1 AND 2

A cozy roguelike about catching fish and packing them into a cooler.

Your lake is your deck and your cooler is the board. You get three casts a day. Every fish you catch has its own shape, shelf life and effect, and it's up to you to find it the right spot in the grid.

At the end of the day the whole cooler scores, and you need to hit the quota to keep going. Spend what you earn at the shop, grow your lake, and build something that scores a little more every week.

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How a day works

1. Cast. Each cast pulls a random fish from your lake.
2. Place it or toss it. Put the fish in the cooler, or throw it in the trash. Once a fish is placed it stays where it is, but a new fish can go on top and push the old one out.
3. End Day. Every fish in the cooler scores. Neighbors boost each other, Patterns add Mult, and your Gear does the rest.
4. Watch the freshness. A fish with 2 days of freshness scores twice and then rots in place, until you cover it with something new.

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What's in the demo

• A 2-week run with 14 days and a boss at the end of each week.
• 5 fishing grounds: Amazon, Bayou, Cold Waters, Coral Reef and Open Sea. At the start of each week you pick a new one to add to your lake.
• 142 fish, from real species to creatures from folklore and legends around the world, each with its own shape and effect. Catch every Common in a fishing ground to unlock its Epic fish, and every Uncommon to unlock its Legendary.
• 16 bosses, like The Heron, Heat Wave and Whirlpool, each with a rule that changes how that day plays. You'll know who's coming from the start of the week.
• 41 Gear with permanent effects, where the order you put them in matters.
• 17 Bait to change what you catch, and 15 Supply to rotate, move or refresh the fish in your cooler.
• Special cells like Ice, Salt and Gold, plus harmful ones like Crack and Oil Slick.
• 12 fish modifications, like Plump, Preserved, Golden and Rainbow.
• Patterns that reward you for arranging the cooler in certain ways.
• Orders from customers. Deliver fish from your cooler for extra money.
• A free Upgrade every week, like a bigger cooler or an extra cast.
• A Dictionary that keeps track of every fish and item you've found.
• Pixel art, calm music and sound.
• Scoring speed options (1x, 2x, 4x), mouse and touch controls.
• Languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, German, French and Russian

The full game will have 3 weeks with a final boss, Endless mode, 10 fishing grounds with 261 fish, 8 starting coolers with their own shapes and rules, 24 bosses and 5 difficulty levels.

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Play your way

Windows
Pixel-perfect scaling, windowed or fullscreen.

Browser
Play right here in your browser.

Android
Download and install the APK. Plays in landscape.

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Good to know

• The game is 100% offline.
• Your run saves automatically at the start of every day. If you quit in the middle of a day, you'll come back to the start of that day, with the same catches.
• Your demo progress (Dictionary and unlocks) carries over to the full game.

I'm making this game on my own, and it's still a demo, so you'll probably run into a few rough edges. If you find a bug or have feedback, please leave a comment. It helps me a lot.

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Inspirations

The two biggest inspirations for Finfold are Balatro and Dredge.

From Balatro, I took the run structure: a deck you build up over the run, a score target you have to beat, Mult, items whose order matters, and unlocks that open up new ways to play. From Dredge, I took the grid. Fitting oddly shaped fish into a cooler is a puzzle I wanted to build a whole game around.

You'll probably recognize some of those influences, but the rules, content and names in Finfold are my own. The fish are real species, plus a few creatures from folklore.

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A note on AI

I used it to create a very detailed translation, going through several rounds of revision, while preserving the specific ways of speaking and regional nicknames used in each country.

I also used some images as a reference, but the final artwork is my own!

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Credits

• Music: "Beary Fishy Menu Screen", "Gone Fishin'" and "Up in the Sky" by Memoraphile (You're Perfect Studio), CC0 1.0
• Fonts: Tiny5 (The Tiny5 Project Authors) and Jersey 15 / Jersey 20 (The Soft Type Project Authors), SIL Open Font License 1.1