Lionfish Hunter

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About this game

Drop off the boat with a speargun and a mesh bag. Somewhere along the reef below you there are
lionfish — beautiful, venomous, and eating their way through a place they were never supposed to
be. Your job is to take them out of it.

Lionfish Hunter is a calm game about doing a real job well. Line up the shot, take it, bag the fish,
move on. Got one. Got one. Got one.

THE SHOT IS THE GAME
Pull back on the right of the screen to load the speargun and let go to fire. The spear is on a
tether and takes a moment to come back, so you cannot spray shots — every one is a decision. Where
you hit matters as much as whether you hit: a clean kill through the body is worth restaurant money,
a raking shot along the length tears the meat, and too much speargun on a small fish ruins it
outright.

SWIM THE REEF UNTIL YOUR AIR RUNS OUT
One dive spans a whole site — work a patch of reef, swim on, work the next. Then surface wherever
you happen to be and swim back along the top to your boat to unload. Run low on air and you simply
go up. You can never drown, and you never lose a haul.

MIND THE SPINES
Those fins are venomous, they reach a long way past the body, and getting close is exactly what good
shooting requires. A sting costs you air and a first-aid bill.

SELL IT, THEN BUY BETTER
The restaurant pays well and refuses anything small or mangled. The market takes most of it. The
rendering company takes literally anything and pays accordingly. Which one you sell to is a decision
you make holding the fish you actually shot.

Cash buys bigger tanks, bigger bags, better spearguns and a better boat — longer dives, richer
water, and reefs further out that nobody has cleared.

THE REEF COMES BACK
Clear the lionfish off a patch and the coral colours up and the fish return. That is the whole point
of the job, and you can see it happen.

WHY LIONFISH
The invasion is real. Lionfish are native to the Indo-Pacific and have spread across the Atlantic,
Caribbean and Gulf, where they have no predators and eat almost anything that fits in their mouths.
Divers culling them genuinely helps reefs recover. The game carries a short ecology sheet drawn from
NOAA, including the part a game would normally leave out: culling holds a reef, and nobody clears
the ocean.

WHO IS ACTUALLY DOING THIS
The game credits and links to the organisations doing the real work — REEF, Lionfish University, the
CORE Foundation, ECOMAR and NOAA Fisheries. None of them are affiliated with us and none of them
endorse this.

No in-app purchases. No accounts and no sign-in. Nothing in the game costs real money.

If you get into debt you can choose to watch a short video for in-game cash - at the dock, never
during a dive, and never more than three times a session. You can ignore it and finish the game
without watching one.

The game reports crashes so we hear about problems without you having to tell us.

What’s new

LEARN IT IN THE WATER. The game now opens on a practice lagoon: swim through three rings, then spear two fish, then the boat runs you out to the reef. Nothing in there can hurt you and nothing else is on the screen.

Older players told us it was not clear the game is played with two thumbs, one on each side. It is a course now rather than a page of text, and everybody gets it once — you can swim it again any time from HOW TO PLAY.