Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Johnson’s pond isn’t that big, yet more fish are being born each year. The fish have divided up into schools and are at war.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Johnson’s pond isn’t that big, yet more fish are being born each year. The fish have divided up into schools and are at war. Vicious Fishes is a tile-laying game where six different schools of fish are fighting to become the dominating school of the sea. It’s better to be a big fish in a small pond, goes the old saying, and this is a small pond. Players are actively supporting a faction of fish hoping that their faction is the winner. At the same time, they are secretly betting that one faction of fish loses. Which player will back the right faction?