8K8 Fish Shooting Game — Weapon Tiers & Boss Fish, Explained

Open a fish shooting game and the first choice you make isn’t a bet size — it’s a weapon tier. This page is the fishing games pillar’s deeper look at exactly what that tier controls and what happens once you fire.

One round, step by step

A round runs the same basic sequence on every fish shooting game this network has looked at.

1. Pick a weapon or cannon tier. A higher tier costs more per shot.
2. Aim at a moving fish on the shared screen. Small fish are faster and cheaper to down; bosses are slow and armored.
3. Fire. Each shot deducts its cost from your balance whether or not it connects.
4. Land enough hits on a target to catch it, and it pays bullet value times that fish’s own multiplier.
5. Adjust your tier up or down between shots as your balance and the fish on screen change.

No universal cost or multiplier table applies across studios or even across two games from the same studio — the paytable screen inside the specific game you’re playing is the only current source for those numbers, and this page does not print one it can’t stand behind.

Boss fish and shared tables

Fish shooting games are built as shared tables: several players fire at the same shoal, and a boss fish — the slowest, highest-value target on screen — often takes sustained fire from more than one player before it goes down. The payout for a catch usually goes to whoever lands the finishing shot, which rewards timing a high-tier shot for a boss that’s already been weakened rather than opening on it alone.

That shared structure is part of why the format reads differently from a slot: your result depends partly on other players at the table, not only on your own shots. It’s the same structure whether the table is running a JDB, CQ9 or JILI title — none of the three studios documents a solo-only mode for the format.

Studios that build the format

Studio	Specialism as published	Catalogue	RTP published
JDB	Fish shooting games, ahead of slots	Not published	No
CQ9	Fishing games, alongside slots and arcade games	200+	No
JILI Gaming	Fishing games, alongside slots, table games and bingo	100+	No

JDB is the only one of the three that names fish shooting games specifically as its lead specialism rather than folding it under a broader label. None of the three publishes an RTP or house-edge figure for any fishing title, the same absence this site records for JILI’s slot titles.

Fish shooting games at 8K8

8K8’s lobby runs provider tabs for JILI Slot, CQ9 Slot and JDB Slot, and studio logos for JILI, CQ9 and JDB sit among the lobby’s other logos. All three studios build fishing or fish-shooting titles, so those tabs are where a fish shooting game on this site would surface. Open the tab and check what it currently lists — a lobby’s rotating selection is not the same thing as a studio’s full catalogue.

Getting started without overspending

1. Set a session budget before you open the game, in pesos, not in shots.
2. Start at the lowest weapon tier and watch how fast it draws down your balance.
3. Open the paytable screen and read the current bullet cost and fish multipliers for that specific title — JDB, CQ9 and JILI each set their own.
4. Raise the tier only once you’ve seen the low-tier pattern for a few minutes.
5. Stop at your budget regardless of what’s on screen.

Read the game’s own paytable screen for its current bullet cost and fish multipliers before you commit real money — confirming 8K8 is legit first is a five-minute check worth doing before any first session, on any format.