I Am Fish | Ep. 5 – Today’s Mood: Piranha With a Touch of Pufferfish Panic

Back into the Wild West where every decision matters and the frontier never gives anything away for free.

Somewhere between a fish crossing a motorway, a surgeon chasing us through a hospital full of blood bags, and a flying fish treating rooftops like personal runways, tonight’s stream proved once again that I Am Fish might be one of the most wonderfully unhinged games ever created.

This was supposed to be a simple continuation of our second playthrough. Instead, it became an evening of questionable plumbing, community problem solving, airborne fish acrobatics and enough blood to make Quentin Tarantino ask us to calm down a little.

🩸 About the Game

I Am Fish is a physics-based adventure following four unlikely aquatic heroes who were separated after escaping their pet shop aquarium.

Each fish brings its own way of navigating the world, whether that’s rolling, swimming, flying or chomping through obstacles on the long journey toward freedom and eventually the open ocean.

The premise sounds simple.

The reality involves toilets, roads, laboratories, construction sites and some of the least fish-friendly environments imaginable.

🌊 Where We Are in the Journey

This stream marks the second half of our return visit to I Am Fish.

Last time we guided the Goldfish and Puffer Fish through their escape attempts. Tonight belonged to the Piranha and Flying Fish chapters, bringing us right to the edge of the finale.

By the end of the night all four fish had finally reunited, although the journey isn’t quite over yet. One final level awaits where all four fish work together, alongside the gloriously ridiculous bonus mission set in space.

🔥 What Happens in This Episode

The evening opened with the Piranha chapters and, as anyone who has played them already knows, patience was immediately placed under extreme pressure.

The second level in particular remains one of my least favourite sections in the entire game. Swinging from vines while trying to maintain momentum through water currents felt less like platforming and more like negotiating a peace treaty between physics engines.

Eventually, persistence won out.

Not before clogged toilets, overflowing sinks and an increasingly confusing collection of pumps turned the stream into a full community engineering project. Chat became an emergency response team as everyone tried to remember which valves needed opening and which ones absolutely did not.

Somehow we survived the infamous pump room.

Things only became more absurd from there as our tiny aquatic fugitive was tasked with crossing an actual motorway. Against all logic, and despite several extremely close encounters with traffic, the piranha rolled and flopped its way across what looked suspiciously like authentic British pothole infrastructure.

Then came the hospital.

Frozen in ice, released into corridors full of blood bags and transfusion equipment, we suddenly found ourselves starring in something that looked less like I Am Fish and more like a medical horror film directed by Tarantino. An increasingly unsettling surgeon pursued us through the building while rivers of blood eventually erupted into an escape sequence that could only be described as The Shining by way of an aquarium.

The resulting blood tsunami finally brought the Piranha storyline to an end.

Thankfully morale improved dramatically with the arrival of the Flying Fish.

These remain some of my favourite levels in the game. Flying Fish levels one and three are pure chaotic joy as rooftops become landing strips and fountains become emergency refuelling stations for increasingly ambitious glides.

Level two, however, still contains that infamous laboratory section involving jumps between iceboxes which somehow manages to be more frustrating than it looks every single time.

Eventually though, we made it through.

The final reunion of all four fish was waiting on the other side, setting the stage perfectly for next stream’s grand finale featuring the combined level, the space bonus mission and, once the fishy business concludes, some well-earned rounds of Marbles On Stream and Stream Racer.

Of course it wouldn’t be a Dr Ravenholm stream without side quests.

Before wrapping up we checked out the new CCTV camera views from the garden and confirmed that the official Deathloop count now sits at a perfectly reasonable and absolutely not concerning total of thirty-two.

Meanwhile chat spent the evening creating alternate stream titles like Splash Dead Redemption, conducting full Hunger Games simulations, debating mango power and continuing the tragic saga of poor Greg who once again found himself traumatised by fish-related incidents entirely beyond his control.

🎥 Watch the Episode

If you missed the madness live, you can catch the entire adventure right here:

Watch Episode 5 on YouTube

You can also follow the entire series here:

I Am Fish Playlist

For more adventures, disasters and questionable decision making, make sure to visit the channel, leave a comment and subscribe for future episodes:

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🛩️ Join the Adventure Live

The ocean may have been left behind, but the currents are still moving.

Next time the final escape awaits as all four fish attempt one last push toward freedom before somehow ending up in space. After that, the arena gates open for Marbles On Stream and Stream Racer where viewers become part of the chaos themselves.

If you want to witness the victories, the disasters and the inevitable death loops as they happen, pull up a seat by the shoreline and join us live.

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And of course, a huge thank you to everyone who joined the stream and to BearMithrandir for receiving the end-of-stream raid.