

The aftermath is not good–the injured employee was your deck boss and your most trusted and experienced crew member., who is now out for the season.The effect is much like a weigh scale. Not soon after, one of your workers makes an error, resulting in a steel pot being dropped from a crane and onto a fellow employee. Meeting the quota is paramount to any sleeping concerns of these peasants. Yet, you need to get these pots down as soon as possible. You continue this strategy for a while, and your employees are starting to tire. Getting the boat into position, you ring a buzzer, giving your workers the green light to drop the pot into the sea. Once there, your crew gets to work, as do you. Marking your map with your planned strings, (swaths of sea where you drop your pots to “soak”) you and your crew make haste for that location. Checking your plotter, a device that allows you to check crab population, you map out your strategies to hit areas with the highest density. With fresh supplies and an experienced crew, you plan out your fishing strategy. Crew members must be hired and provisions (bait, gas, fishing pots) must be purchased. But a deeper look into the game reveals surprising depth for gamers out there that want to step back from action and have a more chilled experience.Īfter a lengthy tutorial gets you acclimated to controlling the boats, you’re not ready to set sail for the Bering Sea quite yet. Why would a testosterone-fueled 18-34 male want a game about fishing? Short answer is that Mr. At first glance it seems akin to offering vegetables to child. It’s hard to sell a game about crab-fishing to groups of gamers that are used to action-packed games like Halo 3 or Metal Gear Solid 4. Don’t get too excited, but don’t get too cynical either. After the ice has been cleared from the boat, you and your crew get to the real task at hand: fishing for crabs. The quota has to be filled, but your boat also needs to stay afloat, so your crew is safe from your wrath–for now. Ice chunks form on all sides of your ship, commanding all the attention of your crew for the task at hand.
