THE CRUNCH

DREADMOOR, a first-person fishing adventure with a dark streak, launches in Early Access for PC via Steam on November 9, publisher Digital Vortex and developer Dream Dock have announced.

The game casts you as the skipper of a fishing trawler exploring a submerged world of islands and ruins, catching and selling more than 100 species of sea creatures, scavenging scrap and blueprints from shipwrecks, and crafting equipment such as baits and harpoons. It is not all angling: mutated creatures lurk in the water and on land, so every trip can turn into a fight for survival.

Early Access means the game is sold in an unfinished, in-development state, so expect it to evolve with feedback before any full release. No date for that final version has been announced.