Fishing Game is a casual indie RPG that launched on PC in August 2022, offering a laid-back take on the genre. The game has recently become an unexpected repository for remnants of Microsoft's cancelled Xbox exclusive Contraband, with files from the abandoned open-world smuggling project discovered embedded in the fishing title. Contraband had been in development for years before Microsoft shelved it during the 2021 showcase, leading to the shutdown of developer Avalanche Liverpool.
Beyond the Contraband discovery, the game's creators have shifted focus to a new project - a survival game designed with the same relaxed philosophy that defined their fishing experience, suggesting they're exploring how the survival genre might work without the typical stress mechanics that dominate the category.
Indie developers Mallorian and FloralNoise have announced their short-form psychological horror fishing game HOOKEYE for PC via Steam later in 2026. Set on a fog-covered dock off the California coast, HOOKEYE follows a lone fisherman consumed by his obsession with fishing. Armed…
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How to Fish's Steam peak is more than twice... well, Peak's
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Everyone has heard of Call of Duty, and yet, a video game that you've probably never heard of is outperforming the first Modern Warfare 4 beta on Steam. How to Fish looks like a surprise hit with over 341,000 concurrent players today, per Steam . Plus, developer Dazed Games has a…
Announced during the 2021 Microsoft and Bethesda Showcase with a CGI trailer for the game, Contraband was in development for at least four years before it was cancelled. Soon after, Avalanche Liverpool, the team that were developing the game, were shut down, and that’s the last w…
Talk about hidden Contraband. It's been just over a year since Microsoft scrapped its Xbox exclusive Contraband , teased as an open-world co-op smuggling experience from Avalanche Studios. Until now, all we'd seen was its teaser trailer and a handful of leaked screenshots showing…
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Maybe a survival game doesn't *have* to be as stressful as real life