The 50+ Best Fishing Games & Fishing Simulators of All Time
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This is a list of the best fishing games and fishing simulators of all time for any console or system, including cover art pictures when available. These highly rated fishing games are ordered by popularity, so only the greatest fishing games are at the top of the list. Spanning the entire history of the genre, these fishing games are considered the best in the genre. This list includes all challenging fishing games that have ever hit the shelves, so it doesn't necessarily have all the more obscure or new fishing games.
This list features fishing sim games like Cabela's Outdoor Adventures and Harvest Moon: Back to Nature.
This list answers the questions, "What are the best fishing games?" and "What is the greatest fishing game of all time?"
Most divisive: American Bass Challenge
Over 500 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of Fishing Games
- Reel Fishing II is the final Reel Fishing game on the PlayStation. It was published by Natsume. It features 19 levels and tons of different types of fish.
- 3Jan 01 1999Sega Bass Fishing, also known as Get Bass, is an arcade fishing video game developed in 1997 by Sega for the Sega Model 3 hardware. The game has since been ported to the Sega Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii.
- 4Dec 31 1994Bassin's Black Bass with Hank Parker, known in Japan as Super Black Bass 2 is a 1994 tournament-based fishing video game developed by Starfish and published by Hot B for the Super NES. The player attempts to rise up from an amateur tournament to the bass fishing championship in both versions. In the North American version however, the player must compete and win against Hank Parker for the championship.
- 6Mar 31 1998Reel Fishing is the first in the Reel Fishing series of fishing video games. It was released on the PlayStation. It was published by Natsume.
- 7Nov 22 2011Fishing Resort, known in Japan and Korea as Family Fishing, is a fishing video game developed by Prope for the Wii home console. It features 8 different areas for the player to fish and do several "activities". Stores located in areas allow people to purchase items for fishing needs. Players can also take a cruiser and explore the ocean surrounding the "island" where the game takes place.
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- 12Aug 28 1992The Black Bass, known in Japan as The Black Bass II, is a NES fishing video game, developed by HOT・B and released in June 1989. Although simply titled, it is the second game released in HOT・B's Black Bass fishing game franchise after the 1986 Japan-exclusive game also simply titled The Black Bass. The sequel was released in Japan on October 18, 1988, and later became the first in the franchise to receive a North American release in September 1989. Its North American title having been returned to simply as The Black Bass to introduce consumers overseas to the series; however, the title screen reads The Black Bass USA.
- 13Jun 28 2011Reel Fishing Paradise 3D is a fishing video game developed and published by Natsume Company Ltd. as part of the Reel Fishing franchise for the Nintendo 3DS.
- 14Oct 30 2007Hooked! Real Motion Fishing is a fishing video game for the Wii video game console, released on October 30, 2007. The game supports Nintendo Wi-Fi and comes with a free fishing rod attachment with the game's purchase. Hooked! Real Motion Fishing is the localized version of Bass Fishing Wii: Rokumaru Densetsu in Japan. In Europe, the game is called Big Catch Bass Fishing, which is also the name given to an otherwise unrelated Nintendo DS fishing game developed by Starfish-SD. Players fish in 6 locations using 4 casting methods. Allows online play with up to 4 people. This game was developed by SIMS, the developer of several fishing games including Sega Marine Fishing, the Dreamcast version of Sega Bass Fishing, and Top Angler: Real Bass Fishing.
- 15Jan 01 1999Sega Marine Fishing is a fishing video game in which the player attempts to catch various marine sport fish. The gameplay's emphasis was on enticing fish to bite onto the lure and then successfully fighting the fish and reeling it to the boat. As the player catches fish, they earn item cards. Items earned with these cards include fish and artifacts for an aquarium, fishing equipment, additional boats, and various goofy accessories such as different colored shorts. The game also featured two modes of online play: tournament fishing and "fish mail". In tournament fishing, players competed to catch the biggest fish within a species. Fish mail consisted of writing short messages. Players could receive random messages by catching fish. Sega Marine Fishing can be played using the Dreamcast fishing rod controller. You could customize your character with hats, shirts, etc.
- 16Nov 21 2007Cabela's Monster Bass is a fishing video game published by Activision Value for the PlayStation 2. It was released in the North America on November 19, 2007.
- 17Sep 20 2005Mark Davis Pro Bass Challenge is a bass fishing video game for the Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2.
- 18Jan 01 1994Gone Fishin' is a fishing video game for DOS operating system, released in 1994 by Amtex. In the game, located in Bay of Quinte in Lake Ontario, the player can take part of a fishing tournament. Before fishing begins, the player has to buy fishing equipment at a store, and can also pick up useful pieces of advice from both the storekeeper and an older man at a nearby fishing lodge.
- American Bass Challenge, known in Japan as Super Black Bass Advance, is a fishing video game developed by Starfish for the Game Boy Advance. It was published in Japan by Starfish on August 8, 2001, and in North America by Ubisoft on December 5, 2001. It is the eleventh game in The Black Bass series and the first in the series to be released after Starfish bought the original creator of the franchise, Hot B.
- 20Apr 01 1996Mark Davis' The Fishing Master is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System fishing video game that features fishing in rural lakes. The game also featured Mark Davis' voice. It is also known for its status as a cult video game due to its difficulty level and attention to detail about lures and weather effects. A sequel, Mark Davis Pro Bass Challenge, was released in 2003 for PlayStation 2 and 2005 for Nintendo GameCube.
- 23Jan 01 1994TNN Bass Tournament of Champions is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Mega Drive/Genesis fishing video game based on the defunct Nashville Network. It is known in Japan as Larry Nixon's Super Bass Fishing. and was endorsed by professional fisherman Larry Nixon as well as the Nippon Bass Club. TNN Bass Tournament of Champions was followed by the sequel TNN Outdoors Bass Tournament '96.
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- Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is a video game in the farm simulation series Harvest Moon, developed by Victor Interactive Software. It is the first Harvest Moon game for a non-Nintendo console. Characters from Harvest Moon 64 were transferred to be the characters in this game, although with new lifestyles, personalities, and relatives. A girl-oriented remake, Bokujō Monogatari Harvest Moon for Girl, was also developed, but until 2007 had not been released in English. This game was later remade as the Game Boy Advance games Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. In 2005, Harvest Moon: Back to Nature was coupled with the girl version and ported as Harvest Moon: Boy & Girl for the PlayStation Portable, although the box art and instructions portrayed it as a completely new game. In 2008, Marvelous Interactive released Harvest Moon: Back to Nature and Bokujō Monogatari Harvest Moon for Girl for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable via the PlayStation Network.
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- 26Sep 13 2005Cabela's Outdoor Adventures is a hunting video game released in 2005 by Activision. The game gives a player the ability to drive vehicles, fish and hunt. This is the very first video game to hunt and fish all in one game. There are 11 exotic locations, 32 animals to hunt and harvest, thousands of Cabela's gear options and much more. Some of the animals in the game include white-tailed deer, mule deer, Brown bear, Black bear, moose, coyote, bobcat, lynx, javelina, raccoon, and many more.
- 27Jun 16 2008Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm is a simulation computer game for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows developed by Liquid Dragon Studios and published by Greenwave Games. The game was created by Northwestern Games.
- 30Jan 01 2002Matt Hayes Fishing is a fishing video game for Windows, released in 2002 by Electronic Arts and endorsed by British angler Matt Hayes. In the game the player can fish for seven species of fish in the following European locations: Loch Lomond in Scotland Lough Derg in Ireland Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire, England a generic English gravel pit River Usk in Wales Gamlebyviken, an inlet of the Baltic Sea near Västervik in Sweden.
