When your recreation(s) of the yr largely include psychological horror and back-to-back, brutal boss fights — as mine did — you’ll virtually undoubtedly want one thing mindlessly stress-free to chill with. Certain sufficient, as I wrapped up my time wandering across the streets of Silent Hill 2, an lovely, unsuspecting recreation started doing the rounds on social media: Webfishing.
Webfishing is easy. You fish. That’s it. After hours of deciphering Silent Hill 2’s ending circumstances, fishing is all I needed to do.
Certain, Webfishing does have a bit of extra to it than simply fishing. There’s a chat operate, and finally, the thought is that you simply make buddies — or dangle together with your current buddies — and chat whereas ready for a fish to chunk. There’s cosmetics, upgrades, and even playing, however not the predatory kind; Webfishing, luckily, doesn’t require you to spend a penny past the £4.29 that the sport really prices.
Certain sufficient, myself and an in depth good friend started working catching fish and shortly spent most of our income on scratchcards. Our newfound income, which weren’t actually income in any respect, have been shortly spent on cosmetics and higher bait. Higher bait means larger fish, and the fish in Webfishing get actually huge…
And what occurs whenever you catch these huge fish? Most of the time, you’ll discover different people — who all seem like Animal Crossing characters, by the best way — cheering for you in chat. I’ve had a few of my nicest, most harmless of on-line interactions all yr in Webfishing.
An extremely easy premise with, for essentially the most half, a stunning playerbase and group. In a single random foyer that I joined, hoping to quietly fish whereas watching YouTube, I joined a bunch of individuals fishing from a rest room. One of many many issues you are able to do in Webfishing that I didn’t know existed on the time. One other participant introduced out a guitar and started taking requests from others, whereas all of us continued to fish from the identical, small rest room.
On one other event, myself and my good friend determined to spend our Saturday night having some in-game (and actual!) beers whereas taking part in Webfishing and catching up on one another’s lives. Our server shortly went from simply the 2 of us to a number of pixelated cats and canines gathering on the pier to talk about something and every part, get drunk on in-game wine, and naturally, fish.
There have been just a few casualties to the wine, however all in all, logging right into a recreation to fish together with your good friend after which discovering your self chatting to an entire array of like-minded, LGBTQIA+ folks whereas doing so isn’t one thing I essentially anticipated from Webfishing once I first put in it. I used to be pleasantly shocked, and it’s what retains me coming again. That, and fishing, after all. There’s an actual kick from catching a fish so huge that it clips by way of the map. Although, not a lot of a kick from then spending your entire income from it on scratchcards, and dropping most of them.
Webfishing is weird and surreal at one of the best of instances, particularly whenever you witness your good friend parkour from one facet of the map to the opposite — meowing frantically the whole time, as a result of that’s a factor you are able to do — however there’s one thing simply so beautiful about all of it. Webfishing is a small nook of the web the place — when hackers aren’t making an attempt to spoil the enjoyable — you may actually change off and loosen up for some time. Fish, gamble, parkour. Push folks into the ocean. Get wine drunk on the pier. Webfishing is an underrated gem and a uncommon place of respite for players who want a break from all of it.
