Thank you to everyone who played the demo during Next Fest. The full game is free on Steam starting today.
Your demo progress comes with you
The first time you start the full game, your demo save is copied over automatically. Your catches, coins and tank carry on where you left off.
Halloween runs longer for launch
Since we launched right at the end of October, Halloween on the river now runs through November 3 this year. The decorations, the witch's camp and the spooky music will stay up a few extra days.
The Spooky Bass is sticking around even longer. It keeps biting through November 22, right up until the Thanksgiving event, so new players have a fair shot at catching one before it's gone for the year.
What's new and fixed
- Settings is now split into pages: Fishing spot, Weather, Sound, Display, Game and Credits.
- Weather details in Settings are lined up properly.
- The version number now sits in the bottom right corner of Settings.
- On PCs where Smooth edges showed a black box behind the scene, the game now switches to Compatible edges by itself the first time it starts. You can change this any time in Settings > Display > Edges. (Especially Windows 11 users)
- Aquarium sorting: sort your tank by Size, Length, Rarity, Name, Caught or Holiday, and flip the order with Reverse. The fish in the tank line up in the same order.
- Hard and Nightmare are tougher: bites take longer, rare fish are rarer, fish you don't click get away more often, and less is caught while you're away. The grandkid cards show the new numbers.
- Holiday fish now get their own places in the tank, one per holiday, on top of the regular 50. The biggest one from each holiday is kept.
- Tank fish are drawn smaller so they have room to swim.
- Your save is now backed up automatically before every update, and a save that can't be read is kept in a Save backups folder instead of being replaced.
- Text and spelling fixes throughout.
Found a bug? Let me know in the Steam discussions or in discord and I'll get on it.
There is a lot more to come with Patchy. Expect to see bi-weekly updates.