Guns & Fishes

Guns & Fishes pitches itself as a fast-paced action platformer with one genuinely strange hook: your ammunition is fish. You play as a Diver going up against a shark yakuza operation that wants to harvest coral for its magical properties. That premise is weird enough to earn a first look, and the core loop of platforming through underwater environments while swapping between fish-based weapons does have a scrappy, low-budget energy that some players will find charming. The combat is built around using different fish types as projectiles or power-ups, giving each encounter a slight puzzle quality when it works. Enemy variety comes from the shark yakuza's ranks, and movement feels arcade-y rather than precise. If you come in expecting tightly tuned platforming or deep mechanical layering, you will be disappointed. The controls are serviceable but nothing about the feedback loop feels polished enough to carry extended play sessions right now. This is an Early Access title, and the Mixed Steam rating at 56% reflects that honestly. The game is visibly incomplete in places: content is sparse, progression feels shallow, and some systems read more like placeholders than finished design. The developer is a small studio, and the page has that hand-made, one-team energy that I usually root for. Whether that goodwill translates into a finished product depends entirely on how active development stays post-launch. For the right player, mostly someone who enjoys quirky low-stakes platformers or wants to support a small project at an early stage, there is a germ of something fun here. The concept is genuinely original, the underwater visual style has personality, and the fish-as-weapon gimmick is committed to rather than throwaway. But the gaps in content and polish are real, and going in expecting a complete experience will lead to frustration. If you can engage with it as a project in progress rather than a finished game, Guns & Fishes offers an hour or two of oddball entertainment. If you need a polished, complete action platformer, wait for a later build or a full release before spending anything on it.

Kai · Scout Team

Indie & narrative

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