During this week's PC Gaming Show, indie developer Monumental Collab and publisher CRITICAL REFLEX announced Drowned Lake, a story-driven horror fishing game with survival elements. For the occasion, a trailer was aired:

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Deep in Brazil’s coastal forest is the Drowned Lake, an area of folk tales and legends, where many who trespass never return. When Bento, a student in his twenties, goes missing in this sinister place, it sets off a twisted story to discover the truth. Explore your surroundings by boat from a top-down perspective, collecting evidence with a fishing rod, while solving puzzles in first-person adventure-like segments. But try to avoid disturbing these troubled waters too much. Remember: you're not safe here.

Key features of Drowned Lake include:

• A Non-linear Horror Story, Told From Three Perspectives: Explore the most forbidding reaches of the forest as a firefighter, a journalist and an elderly fisherman. Unravel the mystery and each character’s true motives in an interactive narrative where your choices matter.
• Scour Dark Waters for the Truth: Collect evidence and uncover what hides beneath the surface of the Drowned Lake by exploring, fishing, investigating, and solving puzzles.
• Beware Making Noise: As you probe the forest’s farthest depths, your choices and actions may increase your noise level, attracting unwanted attention from the horrors of the night.
• Discover the Nightmares of Brazilian Folklore: Experience a tragic, twisted tale inspired by the unique melting pot of Brazilian culture and mythology.
• Investigate in First-Person Mode: Navigate narrow areas, complete intricate puzzles, and experience the true terrors the darkness hides in first-person POV sections inspired by escape rooms and classic horror games.

Drowned Lake is in development for PC.

SOURCE: GBAtemp Inbox

 

[cubes]

Something new, I like it

 

[shadow1w2]

Horror fishing, this genre seems mostly untapped.
Likely can't hild a candle to the unintentional horror of bad fishing games and Sonic Adventure Big fishing stages but thats more of a different kind of horror.
I joke this actually looks really good and I hope tobsee more horror fiahing games.

 

[samcambolt270]

Something new, I like it

fun fact: it's actually not that new. Horror fishing games are a bit of a burgeoning genre on indie sites like itchio. There are absolutely tons and tons of them on there.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Hold on, how can a lake drown? How does that even work


lol

 

[BigOnYa]

Just when I thought I've seen it all...

 

[CoolMe]

I mean alot of deep sea creatures are nightmare material, so why not i guess?

 

[K3Nv2]

If only we could see inside @Prans's mailbox.

 

[x65943]

Horror fishing, this genre seems mostly untapped.
Likely can't hild a candle to the unintentional horror of bad fishing games and Sonic Adventure Big fishing stages but thats more of a different kind of horror.
I joke this actually looks really good and I hope tobsee more horror fiahing games.

I liked fishing more than the knuckles missions

 

[DS1]

I mean alot of deep sea creatures are nightmare material, so why not i guess?

THANK YOU. I was gonna say, MOST fishing games are horror games if you are afraid of sea creatures lol

 

[Phearoz]

I played a horror fishing game this very year, and it was amazing: Dredge

 

[Taleweaver]

Hold on, how can a lake drown? How does that even work


lol

Nobody taught it to swim.

... I'll leave myself out.