CatPhish — The Fish Tinder Incremental Game

CatPhish is a free incremental simulation game where you swipe through fish on a parody dating app, charm them with cheesy messages, and watch your catch pile up. It’s a comedy idle game that runs right in your browser.

The pitch is as silly as it sounds. You’re running a Tinder knockoff for fish, and the job is to flirt with them and reel them in until they tumble into a squishy heap at the bottom of the screen. Then you eat them. Hundreds of the fish names were written by hand, so the bios stay weird enough to keep you swiping.

How CatPhish Plays

Each fish comes with its own name and face, plus a bio that usually lands somewhere between odd and unhinged. You swipe right on the ones you want, then type your way through a quick chat to win them over. Miss the rhythm and they swim off. Hit it and they’re yours.

Early on it’s just you and a single phone, fumbling through a handful of conversations. But the pace doesn’t stay there. Before long you’re juggling several phones at once and a ridiculous backlog of chats running side by side.

Rare Fish and Upgrades

Not every catch is equal. Fish come in tiers — Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary — and the rarer ones turn up as shinier foil cards with a bigger payoff. Hunting Legendaries becomes its own small obsession.

The upgrades are where it tips into chaos. You can hand the flirting off to a Chatbot or a Smooth Opener and let the script do the talking. Pheromones and Super-likes make you an unfairly good match. Golden Lure and School of Fish quietly tilt the rarity odds your way. And by the late game you’re setting off Fish Rain, with the whole screen turning into a storm of physics-driven fish.

Built for One Sitting

This isn’t a game that wants your whole week. It’s designed to finish in a single run of roughly 15 minutes, which is half the charm — you get the full arc from clumsy first message to fish-rain madness without grinding for days. Fair warning: it can stutter near the end once the pile gets enormous. That’s a lot of fish doing physics at the same time.

Who Made CatPhish

CatPhish was made by househorse using the Godot engine. It’s marked as released and was last updated on May 1, 2026. The game is free. Download here

Game Controls

• Mouse — swipe through fish profiles and click through menus
• Keyboard — type out your messages in each chat

As always, remember to have fun!