Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

SINGLE PLAYER FEATURES

• Easy Controls: Click once to cast. No finnicky casting or reeling minigames

• Advanced Systems: Optional advanced rig workshop for detailed bait presentation

• Life-Like Fish Behaviors: Lure predators out from near fallen trees, weeds, lily pads, and drop-offs

• Learn to Fish: A simple in-game guide will tell you what you need to know for your target species

• Auto-Fishing: Tell the game to do the work for you with the auto-fishing waypoint system and auto-reeling

• Pond Management: Generate your own pond, manage its population. Be irresponsible and introduce invasive species for a challenge

• On-Demand Fishing Derbies: One click and you're in a derby against computer opponents

• Multiplayer: Every game mode designed with multiplayer in mind

• Species-Specific Fishing: Pick the right lure, depth, and presentation to catch exactly what you're wanting to find. Watch musky and pike follow your lure back to the boat

• Species From Around the World: Southeast United States, the Great Lakes, and the Nordic region are the starting species rosters

• Free Updates: More content on the way well past release

MULTIPLAYER FEATURES

• Daily Events: A new derby every day, a new daily champion

• Fishing Buddies: Bring your friends along no matter where you're fishing. You'll need help getting that invasive species out of your pond

• Send Challenges: Have a good single-player outing against the computer? Post it as a challenge, other players will play it and you will see how they stack up

• Community Tournaments: Organize large real-time or asynchronous tournaments for community seasons and championships. Compete on your own or as a team

WHAT'S MISSING

• gear grind

• lake unlocks

• cutscenes

• hour-long tutorial

• button mashing

• time-wasting to get to your spot

• beefy computer requirements

• 3rd-party account logins

Tight Lines is here because I wanted a fishing game instead of troubleshooting graphics settings in games about fishing. I'm getting rid of the confusing or irrelevant extras that make fishing games inaccessible with the aim of capturing the simplicity of going out on the water. The goal is to have something in here for everyone. Take a lunch break to fill the stringer or spend an evening in hopes of hooking a musky.

Let's go fishing—tight lines!