I think that this is a well-polished game. During this game, I felt like I am a drunken bear. Yay!

Definitely polished in all aspects! It's really high quality for such a short turnaround.

This was just, great loved it. Got stuck on one of the later sections, but I am coming back to get it later. Awesome job!

Made me remember old times playing TeeWorlds :)

Definetely 5 out of 5, has nothing bad to say

This was definitely one of my favorite entries so far. Really funny and enjoyable to play. No matter how much difficulty I had getting to the next lake, I always wanted to try again.

Very cool game a little bit on the difficult side for my liking especially the last sequence lol, it took me 125 resets ooof. I really like the art style and the mechanic reminds me a lot of the hookshot in speedrunners. Great job team!

Super impressive, I love the difficulty, responsiveness and "bouncy"/"spinny" physics, not to mention the excellent "one more try" element. Clever design. And the game seems to work out in advance that you're not going to make this run, and resets you immediately. So smart. Great work, top marks.

Aaaaahhhhh! Oh boy this game had me making dumb facial expressions and moving around in my seat trying to get this ding dang bear to go where I wanted him 5/5, fantastic.

I didn't know I wanted to play as a bear riding a fish with a grappling hook.

But I'm glad I've now been enlightened to this extremely important thing I was missing in my life.

Frankly I had way too much fun with this. Some of the later sections are a bit tricky, but the cost to retry is *fairly* low so I kept coming back. I wish the initial setup was a bit more reliable (the move speed in water could be faster to make the initial launch easier?) but these are minor grievances to just smooth out my extremely bad gameplay skills.

I did wish the hook was a bit more forgiving; felt like if I didn't click close enough to a ledge it wouldn't fire? Not entirely sure, might just be a skill issue.

Graphics are lovely, audio was fun, and the mechanics are a bit tricky but addictive. I could bearly stop myself from playing it a second time after the first run. Fantastic work!

I love this game! The last challenge was very difficult, it felt incredibly good to master. Unfortunately, I only have 9.97 seconds not 10. I'm afraid I have to take appropriate legal recourse.

@loveschach When you near speed of light time moves slower so the 9.97 is 10 seconds for the duo (must be some rounding error somewhere :D). really glad you like the game!

It was challenging yet fun! I really liked the graphics, the music was so well done too. I liked how the water was a checkpoint so you don't have to start over, otherwise it would be too frustrating. Overall really polished, I like the title of the game c;

Very awesome game here, like the ninja rope from worms but a whole game about it! Such fun, cool art and music too, a well made game here. Great job!

Gnarly! Radical!

What a well polished game! The gameplay is really chaotic but bouncy and fast-paced, and the artsyle and music and sounds really complement that feeling well. T

I'll be honest I didn't beat it got a little too tough somewhere in (I have no idea how far in), the physics of this game is kind of wonky (which is a good thing! it's chaotic!) and I don't feel I have enough of a grasp of it to continue. That

Also the title is brilliant :)

Such a fun entry! I might have struggled more than I'd like to admit but I finally made it! 

I really enjoyed this! Difficult enough to die a lot but always feel like you were just one slightly mistimed grapple from reaching the next lot of water - "I'll get it this time!". Beautiful pixel art as well!

This game was so fun! Nice graphics, and the bear is cute. Swinging around felt very smooth - it was easy to lose track of time. Honestly I could see this game on Steam somewhere!

Fantastic game! I could tell y'all put a lot of thought into it from the game mechanics, to the background music, to the level design, to the squishy fish noise. Great work!

Lovely entry, i found it pretty hard to get far at all with the time constriction :'( But it didn't stop me from having a few goes, the nice and colorful graphics and the satisfying momentum of the swinging kept me going for a bit

Solid game, great graphics and smooth gameplay! I'd probably have a better time not using a touchpad...

Super original and a lot of fun lol :) I'm not a very good grappling fish riding bear evidently but everything comes together quite well in this game :)

Such a fun game! It is so satisfying to swing around, just loved it.

Very pretty graphics as well and the music fits the gameplay super well.

Well done !


Really fun! The combos were such a nice flair too. Excellent art and music, I think it could only be improved by using smooth level terrain instead of a tilemap. Awesome work guys! :smile:

This was quite challenging, but a lot of fun and didn't feel unfair at any time which is pretty impressive for this style of game. Managed to get through with 80 retries, and felt like I wanted more so that's always a great sign. Well done, love all the polish and appreciate the audio sliders!

Absolutely fab! Greatly engaging and lovely player feedback. The intensity of the mechanics and music work really well together, and great polish !

An absolute blast to play! Also had a really well done difficulty curve which is no easy feat for a physics game like this.

I am commenting again to say that out of the dozens of games I've played over the past few days, I really wanted to go back and play this one more! So fun! 

@fuzzybut Great to hear you liked the game! for some reason the picture is not loading for me

@jazkottaja It was just a screenshot of my score! Not the most competitive score posted, but I'll be trying again! 1753.5s / 20 max spin combo / 132 reset count. Another small comment - might be nice to have a quick reset button for when you mess up a swing immediately and don't want to wait out the 10 seconds.

Wonderful game!

@fuzzybut nice! there actually is quick reset button. press "R" to reset from last checkpoint

Cute little game. Loved the music!

Neat game! I made it all the way to the end! The bear riding a fish was too cute XD There were some moments where there was some really nice flow between the transitions, Though I wish I had been able to use the up and down arrows to push the swing a bit more when I'm at the sides of it.

The swinging action is really satisfying! Really simple idea well executed.

Great audio!


see you guys at the tournament ;)

Hello devs of Bearly Fishing! I'm a representative from the score chasers tournament, your game has won the voting and will be played on the tournament this Saturday! We would like to request some updates for it, if you are so inclined as to hear our requests please join the discord so we can talk: https://discord.gg/YpKCPrxG?event=1028742912084803594

We are not demanding, were kindly asking, and we will play your game even if the changes are not possible! <3

excellent game ! i loved the mechanic, and it was pretty addictive. some levels are pretty hard, but with some mastery, it is super nice and pleasing to watch and to play! great entry!

[edit : ok i was talking about pretty addictive, this is super addictive. i have been playing hours in order to improve my time. from a speedrun perspective, this game is incredible!]