Two thumbs, landscapeVR7 Fishing Game on a phone: tembak ikan with your thumbs
Tembak ikan was an arcade cabinet long before it was a phone game, and the handset version keeps the arcade logic: you aim, you fire, the room keeps moving whether you do or not. It is the most physical thing on the floor and one of the six verticals mapped out on VR7 casino.
- Turn the phone sideways; a fishing room is a landscape room.
- Start on the lowest cannon until you know the room.
- Tap where you want to fire rather than dragging the cannon round.
- Use lock-on for the slow heavy targets and manual fire for the shoals.
- Leave the room from the exit button so the stake stops when you do.
Aiming with a thumb instead of a joystick
On the cabinet you turned a wheel. On a phone you tap, and the cannon swings to where you touched and fires from there. That one change makes the game easier to pick up and harder to be precise with, which is why holding a finger down to fire continuously is the habit most new players form and the one that empties a balance fastest.
Lock-on exists for the heavy targets that cross the screen slowly and take a sustained volley. It keeps the cannon tracking so you are not re-aiming between every shot, and it is the difference between a controlled session and a thumb that is just spraying.
Both thumbs get used in practice: one on the cannon, one on the stake keys at the bottom corner. That is the real reason the room is landscape rather than portrait.
What a shot costs and how the stake works
Entry starts from RM0.20 a shot, and that is the unit the whole room runs on. Every press of the fire control spends one shot at the cannon level you are on, and a higher cannon spends more per press in exchange for more damage per hit. Nothing is charged for sitting in the room or for moving between rooms.
This is where fishing differs from reels in a way that catches people out. A spin is discrete: you tap, it resolves, nothing happens until you tap again. A fishing room is continuous, and a held finger spends at the rate of fire for as long as it is held.
The practical habit is to decide a cannon level and stay on it for a stretch rather than climbing when a big target appears. Climbing mid-shoal is how a session's pace doubles without the player noticing.
The rooms, and who builds them
JILI and JDB are the names most players here recognise, and between them they run the rooms that stay busiest through the evening. CQ9 and Spadegaming have their own takes, usually with different target mixes and a different feel to the lock-on. PlayStar sits lighter on an older handset, which matters in a room that is animating constantly.
Rooms are tiered by cannon range rather than by theme, so the practical way to choose is by the stake you are comfortable with and not by the artwork. A room full of players firing at once looks exciting and spends at the same rate as an empty one.
Several of these studios also supply the reels, which is why a familiar art style turns up in both places. The slot side of their catalogues is covered on VR7 slot.
What constant animation costs a handset
A fishing room sits between reels and live tables on every measure. It is drawing a moving scene continuously, which is work for the graphics side of the phone, but it is not decoding a video stream, so it is nowhere near as heavy as a table. On data it is modest: the movement is generated on the device, and only the shots and the outcomes travel.
Battery is the one to watch over a long session, because a screen that never goes idle and a scene that never stops moving is the exact combination that warms a phone. One quality step down in the room settings is the easiest fix and barely visible on a handset screen.
Older phones cope better in the lighter rooms. If the scene is stuttering, that is the device struggling to draw it rather than a connection problem, and the two have completely different fixes.
Other players, and what a dropped line does
A fishing room is shared. Other members are firing at the same targets, and a target brought down pays whoever landed the shot that finished it. That is the social part of the vertical and also the reason a busy room feels faster than it is.
If your connection drops, firing stops, which is the opposite of what people fear. Shots already fired and already resolved stay settled, and the room carries on without you until you reconnect. Nothing continues to spend in your absence.
Coming back puts you in the room at the current scene rather than where you left, because the scene never paused. What a dropped line means across the rest of the floor, including the verticals where it works differently, is set out on VR7 online.
Sizing a session in a room that never stops
The honest difficulty with this vertical on a phone is that nothing marks the end of a round. Reels have a rhythm that gives you a natural place to stop; a fishing room does not, and twenty minutes passes in it the way twenty minutes passes in a game you played as a teenager.
So set the stop before you start. A fixed amount for the room, a cannon level you will not climb above, and a time you intend to leave at are three decisions that take ten seconds and work far better than deciding in the moment with a shoal on screen.
The account settings hold a session timer and deposit limits for exactly this reason. What each one does and how to set it from a handset is on the limits and tools page.
Tembak ikan and slots, compared honestly
The two look similar on a phone and behave nothing alike. An online slot resolves one bet at a time: you stake, the reels stop, the round is over. A fishing room never stops; your stake leaves in a stream of shots from RM0.20 each, and a session is a rate of spend rather than a sequence of spins. People who are used to reels usually overspend on their first fishing session for exactly that reason.
The maths is published differently too. A slot game card prints an RTP for the title; a fishing room prints a value per cannon level, and the return depends on which targets you aim at as well as on chance. That makes it the more skill-adjacent of the two, but skill moves the number slightly rather than decisively, and no amount of aim makes a shot a sure thing.
On the account side they are the same: one MYR balance, the same payment options, the same 0.8% daily rebate on turnover, and the same minimum deposit of RM10. The one difference worth remembering is the welcome bonus, which is slot only and cannot be spent in a fishing room at this online casino.
What a fishing room shares with the rest of the floor
There is no free mode and no demo in the fishing rooms, the same as on the reels: a cannon fires real money from the first shot. The RM8 free credit after verification does not reach here either, because it is slot only, so the cheapest honest way to try tembak ikan is a RM10 deposit and the lowest cannon level.
What is shared is everything administrative. One balance across the whole online casino, DuitNow QR and the e-wallets on the way in, a withdrawal from RM30 on the way out with a typical payout of 3 to 8 minutes once any wagering is clear, and the 0.8% daily rebate counting fishing turnover like any other. The mobile app, the H5 build and the browser all show the same shot history.
What is not shared is the jackpot. The pooled figure at the top of the screen is fed by qualifying slot turnover, so a fishing session does not move it and a jackpot slot is where that number lives. Rooms here are allowed to be different from one another; what they are not allowed to be is different about money, and online gaming across six rooms only stays legible if that rule holds.
Who shoots fish, and what they open next
The fishing rooms draw a younger crowd than the rest of this online casino, usually playing in company and usually in short bursts. The two rooms they cross into most are the reels and the live floor: an online casino slot for the same quick resolution without the constant spend, and blackjack or baccarat with a dealer on camera when they want something slower.
The casino side of the account is identical wherever they land. One MYR balance, deposits from RM10, the same payment options, a withdrawal from RM30 to a bank account in the registered name, and the same 0.8% daily cashback on turnover from any room. Nothing about online gambling here is partitioned by taste.
What differs is only the bonus rule, which is worth repeating because it catches people: a wagering requirement from the slot welcome offer can only be cleared on an online slot game, never in a fishing room and never at a table. The cashier shows which balance is funding a shot, so a Malaysian player can see the difference rather than find out afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
How much is one shot?
Entry is from RM0.20 a shot, and a higher cannon spends more per press for more damage. Nothing is charged for sitting in a room or moving between them.
Does holding the fire button cost more?
Yes, because each shot is charged and a held finger fires at the room's rate. It is the main difference from reels, where nothing is spent until you tap again.
Can I play tembak ikan in portrait?
The rooms are built landscape. Both thumbs are in use, one on the cannon and one on the stake keys, and a portrait layout leaves nowhere sensible for either.
What happens to my shots if I disconnect?
Shots already fired are settled and firing stops. Nothing continues to spend while you are away, and you rejoin at whatever the room is showing when you come back.
Why is my phone warm after a fishing session?
The scene animates continuously and the screen never idles, which is the combination that warms a handset. Dropping one quality step in the room settings is the easiest fix.