Big Fish

Big Fish is a 2D Metroidvania set in a post-apocalyptic underwater world. You play as the Tadpole, eating smaller prey and avoiding larger predators as you grow into a giant creature of the deep. The changing ocean is full of flora and fauna, and its landscape is a graveyard of dying giants covered in hardened soot. To save the ocean, you must use ancient technology from a sunken city.

Explore and grow

You move above and underwater with a fluid, fast movement system, exploring new areas that change over time. Smaller entities flee from you, while larger ones hunt you down; advanced AI and pathing shape interactions between the Tadpole and other entities. Abilities help you catch smaller prey, fight larger predators and explore further. You can pair abilities to create stronger ones, and each boss calls for a different approach.

You acquire abilities from giant flowers or giant creatures. These grant elemental abilities and change the Tadpole’s physical features. Growing its tail increases its speed and the length of its tongue. Colored gates throughout the world open when you splash them with a tail color matching the gate’s required color.

A pixel-art ocean

The game uses a “water-pixel” art style to create an atmosphere like a painting made of pixel art. It is challenging but has a casual feel, with cheats and controller button remapping available.