Out Fishing is a horror fishing-sim with only one goal: "reel in the one thing that was never meant to be found"

Something's fishy astir here

Fishing, I think, is the truest of each video crippled powerfulness fantasies. Action leader combat, romance privation fulfilment, deity similar abilities, each of that benignant of happening pales successful examination to the enactment of sportfishing successful a game. Just you, your rod, and a full load of unfastened water. I emotion to food successful video games, contempt not being idiosyncratic that has a beardown tendency to 100% genres similar collectathons, I bash emotion getting arsenic galore food arsenic I can, and I emotion a twist connected the format. Enter Out Fishing, a mysterious sounding fearfulness sportfishing game.

Where Dredge sees you mounting retired into the unfastened water connected a vessel to get the eldritch drawback of the day, Out Fishing astir takes a calmer, much laid backmost approach. You person your ain small campy adjacent a lake, you tin amended things similar your rod spot and your reeling speed. Classic gamey benignant of things, things you'd expect from a cosier crippled than this one, but past there's the information that if you enactment past sunset, you're greeted with… something, successful the forest. Don't cognize what, but I hatred the woods astatine night, truthful I'm already conscionable a small spot anxious reasoning astir it.

I besides truly similar 1 of the cardinal features listed implicit connected the game's Steam page: "A single, horrifying goal: reel successful the 1 happening that was ne'er meant to beryllium found." That could virtually mean anything. A dormant body? A truly weird fish? Repressed memories of a traumatic event? That past 1 sounds apt fixed that the devs cited Silent Hill arsenic an power (alongside Alan Wake and Mundaun).

What I americium funny astir is however connected the fearfulness elements volition really consciousness to the sportfishing broadside of things. I'm hoping the 2 volition necktie into each different alternatively than feeling similar abstracted games. I won't find retired for a portion though, arsenic there's nary merchandise date. I'll instrumentality to the somewhat little scary Sega Bass Fishing successful the meantime.