ENVER TEAMS WITH TRASS GAMES TO REIMAGINE FISHING FOR SOCIAL VR WITH FISHY

ENVER, the studio behind Scary Baboon and MotoX, has teamed up with Trass Games, the studio behind Yeeps: Hide and Seek, to launch FISHY, a new free-to-play Meta Quest game that reimagines fishing as a social VR experience. Launching globally on October 24, FISHY takes the familiar loop of casting, collecting and upgrading and builds a multiplayer world around it, where players can fish, explore, progress and take on larger challenges together.

FISHY will first enter closed alpha on Monday, giving an initial group of players access ahead of its full global release.

Set on a remote island inhabited by a community of fishercats, FISHY lets players cast out with friends, discover and collect fish, explore new locations and take on challenges together. Fishing with friends might sound like a recipe for relaxation, but sessions can quickly escalate into co-operative boss encounters against giant sharks, strange creatures and other mysterious threats lurking beyond the shoreline.

FISHY has been built around a mechanic that has remained a fixture of video games for decades. Fishing combines a simple, instantly understandable action with collection, rarity and progression, and has increasingly proved capable of supporting games and communities far beyond the traditional fishing simulation.

ENVER saw a particular opportunity to bring that formula into social VR.

In FISHY, casting and reeling are physical interactions. Players can fish independently while standing together, talk while they wait for a catch, compare what they have found and explore the island as a group. Co-operation can unlock bigger and rarer catches, giving players a practical reason to spend time and play together. The result is a game designed as much around socialising as catching fish.

“Everyone understands what to do when you put a fishing rod in their hands. That means players can get stuck in straight away and hang out,” said Jack Morehart, Product Owner at ENVER. “It’s the perfect foundation for a social VR game.”

At launch, FISHY will combine fishing with a wider progression and multiplayer game built around:

The island and the waters surrounding it will continue to expand with new fish, equipment, locations, events, characters and threats following launch.

FISHY is the latest title from ENVER, the independent studio behind Scary Baboon and MotoX, which enjoy hundreds of thousands of active daily players and communities extending across Discord, YouTube and TikTok.

FISHY builds on ENVER’s experience creating social VR games around simple, immediately understandable interactions, giving players reasons to keep returning, play together and create moments worth sharing.

FISHY is being developed by ENVER in collaboration with Trass Games, which is advising on game design and providing executive direction on the project. The partnership brings together ENVER’s experience building large-scale social VR communities with Trass’ expertise in multiplayer game design.

The project builds on an existing relationship between the two studios, which previously collaborated on UG!. Trass is also the studio behind Yeeps: Hide and Seek, one of social VR’s standout titles, giving the team extensive experience building multiplayer games around physical interaction, creativity and community.

Players can learn more, watch the announcement trailer and join the community at fishyvr.com.