About Fishing – the angler-detective mystery – has a new, expanded demo out, and it works as a piece of playable marketing. The setup is genuinely compelling: mermaids, missing persons, dead rural streets, and a church with a prison cell in the basement. It pulls off its cold, drizzly weirdness without ever winking at the camera about how quirky it is. There's even a thieving goose that somehow doesn't break the mood.
The catch – and it's a real one – is that the game is called About Fishing, and there's a lot of fishing in it. The atmosphere, setting, and mystery hook land well, but the fishing mechanics themselves haven't generated the same enthusiasm. For anyone drawn in by the creepy rural mystery vibe, having to spend significant time on the fishing side could be a genuine friction point.
This demo is an updated and expanded version of an earlier sampler that was already doing the rounds last year. The world clearly has something going for it as a detective mystery, but how well the fishing integrates with everything else is a question only the full release will answer.
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