Adventure game Koi is all about fish, but it didn’t satisfy my fish fetish
Chinese game about a traveling fish gets new release on Steam
I'm going to be a weirdo now and admit something: I really like fish. I love watching them at aquariums and fish markets. I like them steamed, cooked, grilled, and made into sashimi. I actually considered getting a fish tattooed on my body. This is why I was probably the only person who was excited about playing a game about fish.
Koi, produced by Chinese game studio Dotoyou, follows a fish on a mission. It was actually the first game made entirely in China that went out on PlayStation 4 back in 2016. It also appeared as a mobile game on iOS and was released on Steam again recently.
Dotoyou says Koi is about saving the environment from man-made pollution. People have compared it to a crossover of the early stages of Spore and Flower. Now I'm gonna reveal my age because I actually played those games when they went out about 10 years ago -- and sorry, Koi is definitely no match for them despite its pleasingly soothing aesthetics and great music scores.