Fishing, I feel, is the truest of all online game energy fantasies. Action hero fight, romance want fulfilment, god like skills, all of that kind of factor pales compared to the act of fishing in a recreation. Simply you, your rod, and an entire load of open water. I like to fish in video video games, regardless of not being somebody that has a robust need to 100% genres like collectathons, I do love getting as many fish as I can, and I like a twist on the format. Enter Out Fishing, a mysterious sounding horror fishing recreation.
The place Dredge sees you setting out into the open ocean on a ship to get the eldritch catch of the day, Out Fishing nearly takes a calmer, extra laid again strategy. You’ve gotten your personal little camp close to a lake, you’ll be able to enhance issues like your rod energy and your reeling velocity. Basic gamey form of issues, stuff you’d count on from a cosier recreation than this one, however then there’s the truth that when you keep previous sundown, you are greeted with… one thing, within the forest. Do not know what, however I hate the woods at evening, so I am already just a bit bit anxious enthusiastic about it.
I additionally actually like one of many key options listed over on the game’s Steam page: “A single, horrifying purpose: reel within the one factor that was by no means meant to be discovered.” That might actually imply something. A lifeless physique? A very bizarre fish? Repressed reminiscences of a traumatic occasion? That final one sounds possible on condition that the devs cited Silent Hill as an affect (alongside Alan Wake and Mundaun).
What I’m inquisitive about is how linked the horror components will truly really feel to the fishing aspect of issues. I am hoping the 2 will tie into one another moderately than feeling like separate video games. I will not discover out for some time although, as there isn’t any launch date. I am going to keep on with the marginally much less scary Sega Bass Fishing within the meantime.
