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Carp Tycoon — Lake Manager
Free browser carp fishery sim. No install, no account.
Free to play, browser-based carp fishery management sim. Start with a 3-acre gravel pit, build to a syndicate estate. Real water chemistry, 60+ UK and European lakes across 9 optional packs. Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile — play now, no signup
Hello, Product Hunt. I am Matthew — solo developer from Evesham in the Midlands, and the carp angler who built this.
Why I built it. Management sims have Football Manager, Championship Manager, every football variant you can name. Carp fishing is a genuinely deep hobby — its own economics, seasons, rivalries, water science, and obsessive record-keeping — and nobody had modelled it properly. I wanted something that felt like opening an old fishing annual crossed with an FM save. So I built it.
What is free vs paid. Everything described above is free. The nine lake packs (£3.99 each) unlock additional named venues with their own populations and rivals. The owner-support tiers (£2–£50) are a tip jar for development — they grant in-game cash, not competitive advantage.
What I learned. Cloud save was genuinely hard. I had a save-loss bug that affected mobile players and had to rebuild the sync layer entirely — IndexedDB, browser cache, and server-side storage now all reconcile on load. It is now tested end-to-end across real devices.
What is next. Tutorial polish, a second European pack, and Steam (it already runs on Electron).
What I want from you. Honest feedback. What would make you play longer, or not play at all.
— Matthew
Carp Tycoon is a browser management sim built entirely around the world of UK carp fishing. You inherit a modest gravel pit and build outward: stock fish, hire bailiffs, set match-day schedules, manage water chemistry and biomass capacity, run day-ticket vs syndicate pricing, place swims, manage baiting strategy, and keep a weather eye on the rival fishery that will undercut your ticket prices if you let it.
Five-tier progression: Hollow Pit → Day-Ticket Water → Established Fishery → Multi-Lake Portfolio → Syndicate Estate. The game does not end — the estate grows until you stop managing it.
There is no combat, no loot boxes, no tutorial hand-holding. The specimen ledger records every personal best fish by weight and captor. Weather and seasons shift the catch rates. Water chemistry degrades if you overstock. The model is honest: the same decisions a real fishery owner faces, in a browser tab
What is in the free game
Full management loop: stocking, staffing, bait shop, match days, sponsors, water chemistry. 5-tier lake progression. Specimen ledger. Rival fisheries with dynamic pricing. Three independent save slots with cloud sync. Mobile-friendly PWA.
Optional lake packs (£3.99 each via Payhip)
Nine packs unlock 60+ named UK and European venues. All 9 packs: £20.99 bundle.
Owner-Support tiers (tip jar, not pay-to-win)
Sponsor a Swim (£2), Stake the Estate (£5), Pit Boss (£10), Estate Backer (£20), Lake Baron (£50).
Play now — no account required
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About Carp Tycoon — Lake Manager on Product Hunt
“Free browser carp fishery sim. No install, no account.”
Carp Tycoon — Lake Manager was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #145 on the daily leaderboard. Free to play, browser-based carp fishery management sim. Start with a 3-acre gravel pit, build to a syndicate estate. Real water chemistry, 60+ UK and European lakes across 9 optional packs. Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile — play now, no signup
On the analytics side, Carp Tycoon — Lake Manager competes within Indie Games, Free Games and Games — topics that collectively have 114.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Carp Tycoon — Lake Manager performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Carp Tycoon — Lake Manager?
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