When your recreation(s) of the yr largely include psychological horror and back-to-back, brutal boss fights — as mine did — you’ll nearly positively want one thing mindlessly enjoyable to sit back 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 perform, and finally, the thought is that you just make buddies — or hold together with your present buddies — and chat whereas ready for a fish to chunk. There’s cosmetics, upgrades, and even playing, however not the predatory kind; Webfishing, fortuitously, doesn’t require you to spend a penny past the £4.29 that the sport truly prices.
Certain sufficient, myself and an in depth good friend set to work catching fish and shortly spent most of our earnings on scratchcards. Our newfound earnings, which weren’t actually earnings in any respect, had been shortly spent on cosmetics and higher bait. Higher bait means larger fish, and the fish in Webfishing get actually massive…
And what occurs if you catch these massive fish? Most of the time, you’ll discover different folks — who all appear to be Animal Crossing characters, by the way in which — 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 bathroom. 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 enjoying 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 canine gathering on the pier to speak about something and every part, get drunk on in-game wine, and naturally, fish.
There have been a number of 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 a complete array of like-minded, LGBTQIA+ individuals whereas doing so isn’t one thing I essentially anticipated from Webfishing once I first put in it. I used to be pleasantly stunned, and it’s what retains me coming again. That, and fishing, after all. There’s an actual kick from catching a fish so massive that it clips by way of the map. Although, not a lot of a kick from then spending your whole earnings from it on scratchcards, and dropping most of them.
Webfishing is weird and surreal at one of the best of occasions, particularly if you witness your good friend parkour from one aspect 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 attempting to smash the enjoyable — you may really swap off and loosen up for some time. Fish, gamble, parkour. Push individuals 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.
