If I may be blunt this is only the second best indie fishing horror game I've played on steam this year.

"The only thing they could catch were some of the largest trout they'd ever seen...'

A genuinely creepy GameBoy-esque horror/fishing. Highly recommended for fans of horror.

We live in an ever increasingly interconnected world. A world where we all have instantaneous access to the internet and each other anywhere and everwhere. Whenever and wherever. This new technology has granted us huge boons and benefits, but it is still a double-edged sword with a serrated hilt that mars the hands of those who wield it. No one understands the claustrophic feelings of being constantly bombarded from all sides, every email platform, every app notification, every direct message, better than Teebowah Games.

In Fishing Vacation, you join your friend on a fishing trip after his recent layoff to relax and unwind at his uncle's lake house. But from the moment you get there, you're weighted down by the oppressive hands of the clock. Allowing you only a measly 30 seconds to frantically dig through the mud, grasping at the writhing worms you need to line your fishing hook with. The game attempts to panic you with its time limit, providing a juicy carrot of an achievement for getting 11/12 of the worms you can find on any given excavation, only to whack you with the proverbial stick as you, in your haste, accidentally bury the worms that you cannot perform your one activity of leisure without. One of three short days, potentially wasted. There is a single book in the cabin for you to read, but you cannot read more than one or two pages in a day because, well, there just isn't enough time. There's never enough time. Before you know it, you're done fishing and need to head back to the cabin for the evening. The entire game itself can be completed in about the course of an hour; because Teebowah Games knows that in today's hectic world, even ten minutes is a huge ask of the player in terms of an investment of time. Even your friend's absent uncle burdens you with the mystery of his own disappearance in the form of a mysterious note and a padlocked cellar door. Lurking figures in the woods prodding you to delve further into a mystery you simply don't have time to investigate.

It's no wonder then that your friend decides to wake you in the dead of night to head out to the lake to go fishing again. Because there just isn't enough time. There's never enough time. And the idea that you would waste any of that time waiting on disinterested fish to lazily nibble at the end of your hooks. The idea that your wife or children or whoever else might try to interrupt these precious few moments before your boss reaches out to ask if you can work from home that day. The idea that there may not be enough worms for you to fish with that day...if only there was a way to illiminate all three of these problems in one fell swoop. Some sort of way to provide an abundance of fish, an abundance of worms and to silence those who would try to distract you from the few moments of happiness you have left.

Fishing Vacation will teach you the true horror of planning an itinerary in today's oppressive rise and grind world.