Anomalogenos

Anomalogenos is a fishing bullet-hell game in which you fight fish by turning a reel handle to fire projectiles, then reel in rewards and build up your skills. You explore undersea caves, battle fish, upgrade your equipment at base and venture deeper into dungeons to face bosses.

Explore the caves

You can dive into the undersea caves from anywhere you can see the starry sky above the water. Within a dungeon, you can explore anywhere under that sky to advance to the next level. The deeper you go, the better the rewards; defeating a boss unlocks access to deeper dungeons.

You can start a battle by throwing a fishing hook at a fish swimming on the map or by bumping your ship into it. Victories earn a treasure chest with a random reward: currency or passive or active skills. Open the chest when you return to base and use its contents to upgrade your equipment.

Fight the fish

You move with WASD to dodge the projectiles fish fire at you. During battle, move the mouse cursor around your boat to turn the reel handle and fire projectiles; hitting a fish reduces its HP. When you take damage, the maximum value of the circular gauge around your ship decreases. The gauge rises as your ship moves farther from the fish and falls as it gets closer; while the gauge is at its maximum, your HP gradually decreases. If your HP reaches 0, you lose the battle.

Active skills are triggered with the number keys 1, 2, 3 and 4. Using one consumes mana, and the skill then has a cooldown. Outside battle, you can press E to perform actions such as coming ashore or entering the shop, and press Space to zoom in or out on the exploration screen.

Build your skills

You can freely combine nearly 300 skills to unleash their power in battle. The game has approximately 150 passive skills, which stay active or trigger automatically, and approximately 100 active skills, which you activate during battle. You equip passive skills in the slots on your fishing rod; the number of slots depends on the rod, and better rods allow more passive skills. You can bring up to four active skills into battle, each with a set mana cost and a cooldown after use.