Hello adventurers! 👋
We want to thank you all for your support on our Demo Update 1.0 and our recent Release Date Announcement at CAGGTUS 2025!
Today, we wanted to cover some topics we've seen discussed in the community and talk more about the full launch of our game set in the Epic NPC Man world! 🌏
Approaching May 29th! 🎣
Everyone working on Nice Day for Fishing is getting more and more excited, the closer we get to our release day! Our small development team at FusionPlay have dedicated four years of our lives to bring the Epic NPC Man Universe to life through Nice Day for Fishing. We're so excited to see which of the many references to the Viva La Dirt League's world and the Epic NPC Man series you will find throughout the game and how much time you'll all spend fishing as Baelin!
It's been amazing seeing that excitement reflected in the community after your super-positive demo update feedback. We can't wait to see how players around the world experience our fishing-adventure game on launch day!
Rebuilding Honeywood ⚒️
One game mechanic that you are yet to explore and features in the content past the demo, is resource gathering and town restoration. As you'll experience in the demo,Honeywood is destroyed at the start of the game and it's Baelin's job to rebuild the town.
Players find unique resources in each of the 12 underwater regions, dredging them with the magnet hook. These resources can then be used to upgrade the houses across Honeywood, with each upgrade unlocking new shop inventory (and more! 👀) for each building in the town!
As you upgrade Honeywood, you'll gain access to better fishing rods, new rings, hats and necklaces... alongside more challenging side-quests from the mayor. Yes, you read that right! There is a mayor of Honeywood, who gives out extremely dangerous quests like... collecting 10 oysters. Dangerous oysters with sharp edges! Who knows, you might accidentally step on them.
Overall, by gathering enough resources from across the land and upgrading the houses, Honeywood will become a beautiful town once again!
Character Sound Bites 🗣️
Nice Day for Fishing includes character voice line sound bites when interacting with characters from Viva La Dirt League’s Epic NPC Man universe! We also wanted to clarify that there are no plans for the game to be full voice acted, however the latest Demo Update added new voice line sound bites!
At the very early stages of development we wanted to hear the voices of Greg, Bodger, and of course Baelin in the game. After FusionPlay's meetings with Viva La Dirt League during this time, we decided together to go down the old-school RPG route of having the most common catchphrases from each character in Nice Day for Fishing. In the end, that's always what we wanted to make: An old school retro RPG, set in the world of Azerim with a fishy twist!
We then were super happy that we could incorporate even more voice lines for the game, adding catchphrases for Willow, Fred, Freda and Charles. We even created voiced for the new characters in The Goblin, Thidon and the Murgol!
As development progressed, we added more voice lines in the game for the existing characters, which became more "rare" voice lines! We find it particularly funny when Baradun sometimes greets you as "Peasant?" instead of his usually "Hello Adventurer!". We can't wait for you to hear all of the characters voice lines and find the rare voice lines too!
Button Remapping ⌨️
We’ve also seen your comments around button remapping on Steam whilst playing our demo. Although this is something we’d like to implement, button remapping isn’t currently on the cards for Nice Day for Fishing, as it would require a full revamp of the coding behind the controls of our game.
We may look to add this to the game in the future, but at this time, we cannot guarantee it will be added to Nice Day for Fishing.
All of our focus over the recent months has been around integrating new features to our fishing RPG adventure game and delivering you the best game come launch day on May 29th!
Play the demo today: 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2393160/Nice_Day_for_Fishing/
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We hope you're excited for our launch on May 29th... Portal AWAYYYYY! 🌀