Fishticuffs cover
Fishticuffs screenshot
PC Steam
Genre: Shooter, Sport, Indie, Arcade

Fishticuffs

Fishticuffs' 2nd Birthday Update
Lo and behold the modern citizen's way of harvesting the creatures of the deep: To not flounder worthlessly in an attempt to reap them in putrid melee like a bassic pleb, but to use the machinations of modern society to defeat them in dishonourable combat! That is to say, to shoot the fish with guns.

Aye, you may now play as the WARMONGER, who has the unique ability to hold a gun and shoot fish with it. Guns may be flound in the depths and switched out as one might switch out an active item. Drop a Flamethrower, get an Orbital Strike, that kind of thing. There's a plank-ton of guns available, don't be shy.

For those of you who haven't joined us since the game's first birthday last year, you've got more to look forward to that's been added throughout 2022:
- You can now look upon the items you have in the pause menu
- Bunch of new items
- Bronzefish: If you don't get a goldfish in a level, a Bronzefish will instead appear with cheap and bad wares
- Achievements: You can now visiblify to your Steam Friends how good or bad you are at this game
- Some fish are weaker now, so it's easier to get cool chain-reaction-explosions

Your violence in the ocean is sure to make you many anemone

Update 2d
Suddenly, achievements! Your progress through the depths of the ocean shall be marked for all to sea by these new-fangled Steam Achievements.

Update 2C
Some sharp-eyed players have noticed that there is no way to evaluate your items in the middle of a run of Fishticuffs. An uncodly failing on my part which you will now find to be rectifried: your items and their effects can be perused to your heart's content in the pause menu.

As a gesture of goodwill I have also added the rare bassibility of finding an Injured Seal.

Update 2b
The Bronzefish has arrived! If you do not have enough money to attract the Goldfish, then this new Bronzefish will appear in his stead to sell you cheaper goods.

What's more, some fish have had their animations changed so their attacks are easier to see coming, some fish have had their HP reduced so they will die to basic explosions, and levels now have titles.

Update 2a
Sudden update! A few new items! That's pretty much all!

Fishticuffs' birthday

Happy birthday Fishticuffs! To celebrate you will be chopped into two pieces:


The Easy Mode, which is easier than the game used to be, with an entirely new set of enemy waves easier than before, and less aggressive behaviour from some fish
The Hard Mode, which shall be available once the game has been defeated one time, and in which the watery world will once again be carp-eted in fishy bullets

Along with this, see these other minor changes/additions:
- Some items added, granting new abilities like the power to steal fishes' wallets
- Some new fish have arrived such as the Swordfish, whose weapon of choice I think you can intuit from its name
- End-of-run graph now shows progress as well as profit
- Levels 3 and 4 can be toggled between red and blue, which is the default
- Bunch of other stuff I never wrote down and forgot about probably

For those of you who haven't joined us since the game launched last year, you've got more to look forward to that's been added throughout 2021:
- An Item Log that shows how many times you've gotten each item
- Active items, one of which you start with
- A bunch of quality of life and miscellaneous improvements
- The ability to choose between two items at the start of each level
- Even more items

[previewyoutube="8FURc_Eh8ZA;full"]

Update 1c
You now have access to not one but TWO choices of items at the start of each level!
What's more, a comprehensive itemlog is now available to catalogue the full breadth and depth of your collections.