Deadliest Catch: The Game

Critic reviews

• Pure Nintendo

  Bill Stiteler · Sep 26, 2023

  3.0

  If you’re a hardcore fan of Deadliest Catch, you might—might—eke some enjoyment from the video game version’s lazy simulation of the tasks. However, you’d have a much better time just watching the show with a controller in your hand, and pretending. You might get a more responsive experience, too.

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• Xbox Tavern

  AJ Small · Sep 10, 2023

  1.0

  I appreciate that the devs/publishers have a steam bundle called ‘Deadly Bakery’ that just about justifies this game’s existence. Utterly woeful at every turn, and best avoided.

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• GameSpace.com

  Brau3er · Jul 18, 2023

  5.5

  The developers of Deadliest Catch: The Game made interesting content, a lot of interesting mechanics, which in the end were able to interest and attract. But what happens in the game certainly cannot surprise you or interest you to sit and play this game for 5 hours a day. This is not a bad pastime, especially if you are interested in this topic and want to have fun. But the graphic and technical side of the game is its weakest side.

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• 3rd-strike.com

  MC_JP · Jul 29, 2020

  3.6

  Deadliest Catch: The Game is a title that you might want to pick up when it goes on sale for -75% or more. In its current state, it is highly unlikeable as there are many bugs, glitches and overall the gameplay just doesn’t feel right. The idea of having a game where you fish for king crabs is cool, especially when you can manage your own ship and carve the story yourself. The graphics are budget bin quality and there is barely any sound. If you like a challenge, have some friends over to try and work the crane, it will destroy more friendships than Uno, success guaranteed.

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• TheXboxHub

  Paul Renshaw · Jul 16, 2023

  2.0

  It pains me me to give a fishing game a low score, but I have no choice here. Deadliest Catch: The Game is dull, hard to operate and looks awful. Most importantly, the way that the controls operate manage to suck what little fun going crabbing has out of the game. The result is a mess that you would do well to avoid.

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• God is a Geek

  Sean Smith · Jul 10, 2023

  4.0

  Deadliest Catch: The Game had the almost admirable ability to make me not want to either take up crab fishing in real life, nor to find out what the eventual endgame of its videogame counterpart was. Unless you really must get heavily involved in looking at a shitload of crustacean genitalia, then my advice would be to have a look at the dramatic and compelling television show, which will make you think twice next time you hear rappers like Rick Ross boasting about chowing down on expensive crab meats, and be more inclined to hit up your local estuary and try to bacon-bait some little UK crabs into a bucket.

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