How To Catch Fish

You woke on Driftwood Cay with a wrecked boat, a broken radio and a mouth full of sand. Nobody is coming. The only way off this archipelago is the one thing the reef will give you: fish. HOW TO CATCH FISH is a first-person fishing adventure about learning water. Read the surface, judge the cast, feel the bite, and fight the fish without snapping the line. Every catch is a real animal, modelled and named — a clownfish that never leaves its anemone, a bluefin that crosses an ocean to spawn, a thresher shark that stuns entire schools with its tail. Sell what you land. Buy better line, a heavier reel, a longer rod, a bigger cold box. Then push out to water that does not want you there. THE ARCHIPELAGO Four islands, each deeper and less forgiving than the last. Driftwood Cay is a warm lagoon where nothing much can hurt you. Mangrove Hollow is dark water where things hunt by touch. Redtooth Atoll is an open reef wall with tuna running the channel. Stormglass Reach is the crossing home, and something very large lives in it. FIFTY-FOUR SPECIES, EACH ONE REAL Every catchable fish carries its own name, binomial, depth, diet and the one fact that makes it worth remembering. Land a Banggai cardinalfish and you learn the male broods the eggs in his mouth for a month without eating. Land a pygmy seahorse and you learn it was only discovered because someone put a sea fan under a lamp. SIX PROTECTED ANIMALS Turtles and dolphins can take your line. They cannot be killed or sold. Cut them loose, log the tag, and the conservation bounty pays better than anything on the slab. FOUR TERRITORIAL PREDATORS Each island has one animal that has outgrown it and stopped leaving. Beat it and the water past it opens. BUILT FOR THE COUCH Full controller support on every screen, from the main menu to the shop grid. Ten-foot layout, analogue reel pressure on the right trigger, and rumble when the line goes tight.