{"id":1009112,"date":"2026-01-10T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65ixtX366T6vMhARz6bTHe"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:15:42","slug":"i-played-a-popular-new-social-fishing-game-on-steam-and-ended-up-blowing-all-my-fish-earnings-on-scratch-off-lotto-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-played-a-popular-new-social-fishing-game-on-steam-and-ended-up-blowing-all-my-fish-earnings-on-scratch-off-lotto-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"I played a popular new social fishing game on Steam and ended up blowing all my fish earnings on scratch-off lotto tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Alone in a chilly, ultra-sterile Santa Monica hotel room last week, the ocean to one side of me and a vast network of Chipotles to the other, I turned to my laptop for a hit of human connection. On Steam&#8217;s top-sellers list, I found a game that seemed suitable for hotel-grade wi-fi: the $5 <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3146520\/WEBFISHING\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webfishing<\/a>, which released earlier in October.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fishing game, but really it&#8217;s a cozycore hangout game with little lake and seaside environments, emotes, props, and text chat. Like every social game, though, the server&#8217;s wallflowers will never muster more than a &#8220;hello&#8221; or a question about the controls unless some particularly outgoing player drums up a conversation\u2014and there was no such bon vivant on the server I joined.<\/p>\n<p>Things were looking dire after I said &#8220;hi&#8221; to someone and they immediately quit the game, but everything changed when I overheard one player reveal to another that you can press &#8216;G&#8217; to meow. (I should note that we&#8217;re all cats in this world. Except for one player who was a dog.)<\/p>\n<p>I now had a far better way to communicate than text chat, with all the complex grammar and potential for misunderstanding that comes with: spamming meows. <em>M-m-m-m-meow<\/em>, I said to the fishercats lining the end of an ocean pier. They said <em>m-m-m-meow<\/em> back. Except the dog, who barked. Later I wandered around meowing in the faces of players who were minding their own business\u2014fishing by the lake, listening to tunes on a boombox\u2014and I understand better now why cats and certain puckish children like to do that. It says: &#8220;I exist. No questions, please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(An aside: In games where you drive a car, it&#8217;s disappointing when you can&#8217;t honk the horn, but I now think I&#8217;d be just as disappointed to control a cat with no meow button, or anything at all with no &#8216;make noise&#8217; button. Everything has its own sort of horn. Let us honk it.)<\/p>\n<p>I probably ought to describe the fishing, since the game is called Webfishing, but there&#8217;s not much to describe: It involves some holding down the mouse button and some rapidly clicking the mouse button, nothing hard. The first fish I caught was a puny 12cm crayfish from a pond\u2014it was depicted with so few pixels that it barely had a shape\u2014but later I snagged a 108.07cm flounder that was as big as my quite-big head, and saw another player catch a giant octopus. That was a little exciting, and there&#8217;s probably more depth to the fishing than I know, because the truth is that I lost interest in fishing the moment I noticed another player bouncing on a mushroom.<\/p>\n<p>And then, at the apex of my fifth or sixth mushroom bounce, I spotted a pair of cats rounding a corner and decided to tail them\u2014no meows, this was clandestine. They led me to a beach shop which sold typical beach attire like gold monocles and big top hats, and to my genuine surprise, scratch-off lotto tickets. I instantly sold all the fish I&#8217;d caught and bought $100 worth of Fishillionaire scratchers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1440px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:62.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ZeyQhCcWSZmYJ2DfWiZYX5\" name=\"webfishing2\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/i-played-a-popular-new-social-fishing-game-on-steam-and-ended-up-blowing-all-my-fish-earnings-on-scratch-off-lotto-tickets.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"900\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Is this fishing? <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: lamedeveloper)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Each time I scratched off a losing ticket my cat frowned. I frowned too. But then I won! $100! A break-even gambling session is a great way to feel good by first causing yourself to feel bad, and leaves you exactly where you need to be to do it again, so I went back to the shop intending to buy another $100 of scratchers. But it was the bouncy mushroom all over again when I spotted a $100 metal detector and decided instantly that I should pivot to treasure hunting.<\/p>\n<p>After chasing beeps for several minutes, though, all I found were a junk ring and an old coin. I sold my crappy treasures and, possibly giving up on metal detecting sooner than I should have, spent all my earnings on scratchers like I&#8217;d originally planned. Fishillionaire hadn&#8217;t let me down yet, after all!<\/p>\n<p>No winners, just frowns.<\/p>\n<p>My pockets now empty except for a handful of free worms, I moped back to the pier, where dandily-dressed cats were still reeling in big fish, quiet and content. How had I gotten so mixed up so fast, bouncing on mushrooms and gambling all my money away? I guess we can&#8217;t escape life&#8217;s trials even in Webfishing, but at least it comes with friends: I hit the meow key and everyone meowed back (except the dog, who barked). My existence affirmed, I cast my line into the ocean.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1440px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:62.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"82tuxPjakFXXHkRYrV3AZ5\" name=\"webfishing3\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/i-played-a-popular-new-social-fishing-game-on-steam-and-ended-up-blowing-all-my-fish-earnings-on-scratch-off-lotto-tickets-1.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"900\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">This is what it&#8217;s all about. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: lamedeveloper)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/i-played-a-popular-new-social-fishing-game-on-steam-and-ended-up-blowing-all-my-fish-earnings-on-scratch-off-lotto-tickets\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone in a chilly, ultra-sterile Santa Monica hotel room last week, the ocean to one side of me and a vast network of Chipotles to the other, I turned to my laptop for a hit of human connection. 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