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Many video games are made in Japan, and one of Japan's leading food industries is fishing. This is a culture where squid and octopus are seen as viable daily snacks, so fishing is pretty ingrained into the culture. So if the video game you are playing is [[Sidequest]]-ish and [[Mini Game]]-ish enough, it ''will'' have a '''fishing minigame'''.
Fishing minigames also occasionally appear in Western games, mainly those that fall on the more "simulationist" side of the "game"/"simulation" line. Something about fishing is impossibly tempting to simulationists. They're obviously [[
Fishing minigames are often [[Luck-Based Mission|Luck based missions]], much to players' annoyance. Especially when fish [[Fishing for Sole|aren't the only thing you can catch]].
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* ''[[Fate]]'' and ''[[Torchlight]]'' have fishing games based on reaction time. The fish can be used to temporarily or permanently turn your pet into a [[Pet Monstrosity|more powerful creature]], or they contain [[Randomly Drops|artifacts]] or [[Socketed Equipment|gems]] (sometimes [[Fridge Logic|much larger than the fish]]).
* ''[[Mabinogi (video game)|Mabinogi]]'' Has one where you can catch fish for cooking skill, [[Randomly Drops|treasure]] [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests|chests]], [[Sidequest|quest scrolls]], and [[Fishing for Sole|worn-out equipment]] which you would need to repair for it to be useful.
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** While there are no cartoon fish, there are cartoon frogs and octopodes. Along with regular frogs and octopodes. One can be your friendly neighbors, and the other you feed alive to a fat walrus for wallpaper.
** Frog and Octopus neighbors may ask you to catch a fish for them (to eat), to which you can respond by giving them a frog or octopus you fished out of the water. They have no problem eating it.
* Both ''[[My Sims]]'' have it in a few places. Despite one being purely Mini Games, and the other a bunch of [[Fetch Quest
* The ''[[Suikoden]]'' series has fishing minigames, that double as ways to collect special items and armor (or worthless junk like old shoes.) Of particular note is ''[[Suikoden V]]'', where it takes the form of a competition between [[The Hero|the Prince]], Subala, [[Bumbling Dad|Logg]] and Lun. Notably, it doesn't really matter if you win or lose the contest; you keep everything you caught regardless. It's mainly an excuse for [[Trash Talk|TrashTalking]] (though the Prince doesn't participate, [[Heroic Mime|for obvious reasons]]...)
* ''[[Okami]]'' had a few, most notably when trying to catch a fish that ate the Moon. Technically, it only ate the moon's ''reflection.'' Which is... well, a lot weirder, actually.
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* All ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games feature this trope as a fairly enjoyable but not particularly essential side activity. Occasionally fishing may trigger rewards or bonuses in the game. In ''The Island that Grows with You'' (a.k.a. ''Island of Happiness''), catching and shipping 50 fish is the only way to get a certain character to move in.
* ''[[Lego Island]] 2'' has a fishing minigame too.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' required the player to catch and feed fish to the character's sick adoptive grandfather. Feeding him slow fish would kill him rapidly. Moderately speedy fish would also kill him, just more slowly. The only way to save Cid is by a steady diet of fast fish. However, whether he lives or dies makes no difference to the plot. If he dies, however, the character is [[Driven to Suicide]] via a [[Leap of Faith]] over her lousy luck at fishing.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' had a fishing minigame, notable because its completion was one of the conditions needed to obtain the Wrymhero Blade, arguably one of the [[Infinity+1 Sword|most powerful weapons in the game]].
* ''[[Legend of Legaia]]'' has a very good one of these.
* ''[[Final Fantasy]] Fables: [[
* ''[[The Amazon Trail]]'' had a fishing minigame, but it made sense. You're on a boat. On a river. You need food. How else are you going to get it? As does later versions of ''[[Oregon Trail]]''.
* ''[[Summon Night]]: Swordcraft Story 2'' has this as minigame. You can gain points which can be traded for hard to find items.
* ''The Sims: Castaway'' for the [[
* ''[[Persona 4]]'' has a fishing minigame that seems entirely luck-based at first, but once you [[Guide Dang It|figure it out]], it becomes slightly skill-based, if tediously mashing the square button can be considered a skill. It can net you rare items and is required for {{spoiler|maxing out the Hermit s-link.}}
* Most ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' games have a fishing minigame. In the third one, the game [[Broken Bridge|requires you to actually fish for a plot-related event]] and the PSP port unlocks special content using the fishing minigame; the fourth actually got its fishing minigame turned into a Japanese smartphone game spinoff.
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* ''[[Magicians Quest Mysterious Times]]'' also lets you go fishing. Rather than sell the fish, though, you give them to a magical book so he can turn them into useful items.
* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]: Grunty's Revenge'' has a fishing minigame... sort of. The mini-game pops up several times with several different "skins," and while it is indeed about fishing in some of them, in its first version, it's about... catching ''sheep.''
* ''[[Deadly Premonition]]''{{context}}.
* The [[Nintendo 3DS]]'s built in ''AR Games'' include two fishing games- one where you have two minutes to earn as many points as you can from catching fish, and one where you have infinite time and can catch as many as you want without worrying about points.
* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' has a mostly optional fishing minigame (you only have to do it three times during the course of the story, but you can come back and do it whenever you want) but you're not really fishing for... fish. You're fishing for ''giant hermit crabs'' which wear ''battleships'' as shells. Capturing them nets you points based on junk salvaged from the battleship; the points can be exchanged for [[Amplifier Artifact|Power Crystals]] and [[Auto Revive|rare parts]] for the Dahak.
* ''[[
* ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' has recently included one as the very first "trade skill" introduced in-game.
* ''[[Chantelise]]'' starts providing fishing poles to the pair of protagonists about midway through the game. Immediately upon receiving her pole, the swordswoman's older sister Chante comments on the newly obsessed look in Elise's eyes and how clearly [[Lampshade Hanging|they'll be doing a ''lot'' of this from now on]].
** While poles are available, it's impossible to buy bait or lures anywhere, leaning to another funny moment when the instructor says she just needs to find something small and sparkly with feathers or something. Chante (who is currently a fairy) retorts that they couldn't possibly be expected to find anything like that anywhere... and notices Elise has that creepy look again... and is looking at ''her'' now... and this is going exactly where it sounds like. Fortunately, Chante is very good at surviving close encounters with fish.
* Prince Noctis' favourite activity is fishing, and ''[[Final Fantasy XV]]'' provides ample opportunities to do so, including a chain of side quests leading to a legendary catch.
* Fishing is a fast way of making some extra money early on in ''[[Stardew Valley]]'', and can be practiced in any body of water found in the game.
* An update to ''[[Genshin Impact]]'' added specialised fishing spots the player can use to obtain more effectivly than simply jumping into the water and attempting to chase the fish into a corner.
* The 10th anniversary update to ''[[Skyrim]]'' adds the option to fish at select locations. As the only option given to the player is to yank back the line when you feel a bite, calling it a mini-game is a bit of a stretch, but technically qualifies.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' allows you to go fishing with a rod in order to initiate wild Pokemon battles and capture Water Pokemon. Later games do, however, introduce timing as a measure of whether you'll be successful.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has fishing as a craft skill.
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** And ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', which introduced a minor minigame aspect in an attempt to ward off botters. It didn't work, as a botter could simply hack the client and tell the server they mined a fish, and the server gleefully gives it to them every time.
** ''City of Heroes'' does ''not'' have a fishing minigame, however perhaps as a parody it has a fishing emote.
** [[Ultima Online]] has a full regular skill for fishing.
** [[
** The 1.8 patch for Rift added a new Fishing skill and a companion Survival skill. You can make cakes with some of the fish. Don't necessarily think about that too hard.
** [[VG Cats|HOW i MIN 4 fish?]]
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' gives Dwarfs (and humans/elves if you mod the game to control them) the ability to fish, but it's entirely out of the players hands(as are most things, it being a [[A God Is You|God Game]]). Some of the fish are extremely likely to eat the Dwarfs involved in the exercise due to a popular glitch.
* In the PC RPG game ''Arx Fatalis'' you can combine a pole and string to make fishing rod and catch fish to cook and eat from most any water area.
* The Sims 2: Seasons includes Fishing as an activity your sims can perform, along with a skill badge that (somehow) affects the quality of fish you catch. The Sims 3 is supposed to have fishing in it as well. This is [[wikipedia:High-level|high level]], so no mini-game.
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