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What a Catch! is a Dating Simulation Visual Novel game created by Elise Foley, the demo is her thesis project at Maine College of Art. 

Reel in some hotties straight from the ocean (fresh, never frozen)-- or will you find yourself tangled in one of their lines instead? Meet your sea-mate among six colorful merfolk, covering many shapes, sizes, genders and species, each lovable in their own way.

*(Content Warnings: blood, death, terminal illness, violence, (debatable)horror elements(?) )

This is a demo version with one playable route. The full game, which will include 6 routes, is currently in progress! Check back for more updates! 

PC and Mac downloads available

StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Rating
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorElise Foley
GenreVisual Novel
TagsCute, Dating Sim, Fantasy, mermaid, Ren'Py, Romance, Story Rich

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WhataCatch-1.1-mac.zip 410 MB
WhataCatch-1.1-pc.zip 427 MB

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I gotta say, it was a shame this was never completed. The art is beautiful, and the twist at the end was very interesting. I hadn't expected that. I hope you return to this someday!

oh frogfish, why'd you play me like that X_X i should have brushed up on my marine biology..! Anyway, this is a really cool concept and I'm excited to see more updates! Nice work!!

Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!!!!

When I try to run the game, this pops up in Notepad:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "renpy/common/00start.rpy", line 198, in script call
    call _gl_test
  File "renpy/common/00gltest.rpy", line 442, in script
    $ __gl_test()
  File "renpy/common/00gltest.rpy", line 442, in <module>
    $ __gl_test()
  File "renpy/common/00gltest.rpy", line 359, in _m1_00gltest__gl_test
    _gl_performance_test()
  File "renpy/common/00gltest.rpy", line 384, in _gl_performance_test
    ui.interact(suppress_underlay=True, suppress_overlay=True)
IOError: Couldn't find file 'kamariaicon.png'.

Thank you very much for letting me know!! I'll get to work figuring out what went wrong right away

It was a really silly error, sorry about that!! It should be fixed now!