WEBFISHING

WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

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WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

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WEBFISHING Info

Developer: lamedeveloper
Publisher: lamedeveloper
Released: Oct 11, 2024
Price: $4.99
Platform: PC

Listed on slopranks October 11th, 2024

Reviews 29

4.7

Based on 29 reviews

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What reviewers keep saying

Almost every review makes the same point in different words: the fishing is not the point, the dock is. Reviewers praise the near-total absence of failure states, the drawing and voice tools, and the fact that a group can sit in it for hours without anyone having to be good at anything. It gets repeatedly recommended as the place a group goes to actually talk. The complaints are that anyone looking for a fishing game specifically will find it shallow, that public lobbies vary enormously in quality, and that there is very little to chase once the catalogue is mostly filled. Nobody argues about the price.

Summarized for this prototype from the sample reviews below.

Prosactually social3calmdrawing toolsdrop-in drop-outno failure state

@dock_hours

1 review

What's great

It is a room with a low-effort activity to occupy your hands, and that combination is far rarer than it sounds. Nothing in it is designed to interrupt a conversation, so a group can be in there for three hours and the game never once demands attention back. We have had entire evenings where the fishing stopped early and nobody noticed or minded.

What needs improvement

If you actually want a fishing game, this is thin. The catch loop has very little depth and once the catalogue is mostly done there is no real reason to cast beyond habit. A slightly more demanding rare-fish chase would give the people who like goals something to do while everyone else talks.

vs Alternatives

Every other game our group owns is a reason to be together with a task attached. This is the only one where the task is optional, and that makes it the one we open when we just want to hear each other.

Ratings

Ease of use5.0

Reliability5.0

Value5.0

Replayability4.0

@lure_and_loiter

1 review

What's great

The drawing tools turn the dock into a noticeboard and that is where most of the real content comes from. Half our sessions end with a wall of terrible sketches and inside jokes that only make sense to five people. Voice attenuates over distance too, so small conversations can happen at the edge of the map without taking over the lobby.

What needs improvement

Public lobbies are a lottery. Some are lovely and some are one person testing how far they can push the drawing tools, and there is very little in the way of moderation tools for a room you did not create. Playing private solves it, which slightly undercuts the point of a public dock.

vs Alternatives

Among Us puts you in a room with people and gives you a reason to distrust them. This puts you in a room with people and gives you nothing to do, and it turns out that is the better basis for an evening with friends you already like.

Ratings

Ease of use5.0

Reliability4.0

Value5.0

Replayability4.0

@afk_on_pier

1 review

What's great

Five dollars and it has replaced our voice channel. That sounds like faint praise and it is not — having somewhere to be while you talk changes the shape of a conversation, and people stay for an hour longer than they would in a call with nothing on screen. No stamina, no timer, no reason for anyone to leave.

What needs improvement

Performance in a very busy lobby gets choppy on older machines, which is a strange thing to say about a fishing game and is mostly a function of how many people are drawing at once. The menus are also more fiddly than the rest of the game, particularly anything to do with inventory.

vs Alternatives

Against Raft, which is our other low-stress option, this has no build queue and no shark, so nobody ever has to be the responsible one. Raft is a project; this is a hangout.

Ratings

Ease of use5.0

Reliability4.0

Value5.0

Replayability4.0

@catfish_hours

1 review

What's great

It is the only game in our rotation that our friend with a young child can actually play, because it can be paused by simply walking away and nobody is waiting on him. That accessibility is not a small feature — it is the reason he is still in the group chat at all.

What needs improvement

There is almost nothing to come back for once you have caught most of it. The game does not really want to be a progression system, which is correct, but it does mean the people in the group who need a goal drift away after a few weeks and only the talkers stay.

vs Alternatives

Compared with Supermarket Together, which is the other free-form option we play, this asks for nothing at all. Supermarket has jobs and therefore has arguments; this has neither.

Ratings

Ease of use5.0

Reliability5.0

Value5.0

Replayability3.0

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