‘Webfishing’ is one of the best social gaming experiences out there. There should be more games like it. Many more.

I’ve been meaning to play for a hot minute. One of my fans gifted me a copy in November, but I’m the worst when it comes to playing anything my viewers buy me (I’M SO SORRY). So this $5 social experience collected dust in my Steam library. That is, until one of my friends invited me to a Webfishing collab on her stream. You know, fish, shoot the shit, usual Webfishing antics.

I finally booted up the game to figure out what I’m doing before we play. And goodness. I’ve been sleeping on this game for so long. Why am I my own worst enemy?! Webfishing is amazing. In fact, I want more social-oriented gaming experiences like it.

, for those of you that don’t know, is basically a 3D chatroom fishing experience. Players walk around as adorable anthropomorphic animal critters, carrying around a fishing rod and throwing bait into the water, hoping for a bite. If all that sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The game feels a lot like Animal Crossing, from the woodsy setting to the fishing minigame proper. Players even speak in an Animalese style similar to the Nintendo life sim.