Splash: Fish Sanctuary

So this is the first time that I’ve actually sought out to search and review a game in the App Store and it’s because of a few reasons. First of all, this is a great way for me to actually have and take care of fish without the having to feed them everyday and clean a tank out. It’s commitment without the commitment which is perfect. Second, it relaxes me. You literally feed, release, and then make more fish. Super easy and thoughtless. Third and perhaps most important is that when I updated my game, something happened and it took all of my coins away. I mean like a large amount. I sent in the concern and within a few hours my coins were back with a message on my account. I mean I don’t know how much better it could get with response time and actually taking time to help me. It took a long time to get those coins! The ONLY reason that I am not giving this five stars is because I think that getting the items later on in the game becomes harder if not impossible to keep getting these new shells and I’m spinning in circles waiting for the other fish to drop them. That is the only thing I have an issue with. There are no bazillion ads that you have to deal with or annoying this or that. Just simple and easy fun. :)

I really enjoy this game, I've been playing it for quite awhile. It's relaxing and my grandkids love to see all the cool fish floating around, I can't seem to keep real fish alive so I'm pretty proud of myself for building this reef. My cat REALLY gets a kick out of it. HAHA! Anyway, the only thing I do NOT like is the drop rate of the gems needed to open up new decoration spots. Of the 6 I have available at my current level, 4 of them require 10 of the same thing. There is only 1 species of fish that drop it and very, very rarely do they drop 1, even with multiple fish of that species, which is also hard to reach because the odd ball gem required to create THAT species rarely gets dropped by the one fish I need it from. That part is extremely frustrating. So, my suggestion to support is to either up the drop rate, or change the requirements for the decor slots so they don't have as many slots with the same requirements. I will continue playing and when I can't create anything else, or run out of challenges, I will start all over again.

Ok so I know that I’ve had this app before and I absolutely loved it, for that experience I give it a full 5 stars. So I decided to get this app on my new phone along with Starlight and Flutter because I loved both of the other games so much as well. The one problem is I couldn’t even pass the tutorial! I hatched to fish, yes good, I grew them up let them go, fine alright. Then I get to the part where you have to open the Aquapedia and the app always closes, this wouldn’t be too too big of a problem if it wasn’t the tutorial and I could do something else, but it wasn’t. I tried about ten times. Then I tried to open a different app and then go back and it continued to glitch. I’m going to keep this app just in case the glitch will stop and I can retry, but this is sort of a big issue effecting my experience with the game. I know this can be fixed but this is what is giving you three stars. If you are reading this review as a recommendation to see if you should get the app, sorry you had to read this much, but also download it see if you like it. It’s a wonderful app and you should really try it. As soon as my game starts working I will edit this review to 5 stars but until then it stays at three. Thank you for reading this review, and I hope you have good day.

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Updated review: Twice I have leveled up and not received an expansion key despite a menu popping up and clearly showing me that I just revived one. This is especially frustrating considering how long it takes to level up and that's part of the point of the game. I love the fact that they display real species information and do not have any of that weird cross breeding of invented fish in other apps, but this nonsense is making not want to play any more. It's also ridiculous that as you level up it's so hard to get the necessary gems to make the fish you have to wait days before producing your first fish. There is no incentive to watching adds either; do you seriously expect me to sit through another 30 second add for Botox if you only give me enough coins to feed one fish? Check out tap tap fish for a very well executed reef simulator. Fun game that suffers from annoying bugs such as some numbers can't be seen because they are obscured by their hordes and gems you need to level up new fish do not register as being collected which is annoying because it makes it impossible to level up certain fish like sea horses. Also any out of app menus like FAQ show up upside down which is really annoying.

It’s a fun game, but is in no comparison to the Flutter games, not because this game has to do with underwater creatures and that has to do with butterflies and moths, but because this game can get boring. It’s a game I don’t play for a long time, because there is only so few things you can do, and it can get quite boring. I would suggest there being more things to do even after you feed the fish. Things to keep me intrigued, because the goals can take a long time to obtain. There has to be more intrigue, and there needs to be more depth about the coral reef and just about the sea life, in general. Not that there isn’t information about the sea life or anything of that matter, it’s just that the gameplay can feel a bit claustrophobic, with not too many places to go. I don’t feel like there is the same quality in this game as there is in the Flutter games. Still, I have faith for it. Such nice a beautiful idea, to be able to help species flourish and to have your own coral reef. It’s just needs to have more of an oompf for me.