Hello everyone,

My goodness it has been a busy year, and I think a bit of a disappointing one in terms of progress with Fishery. I was really hoping to be able to get the next big update out before this year's end but a lot of real life things got in the way.

This year I moved apartment, moved country, and got married. Usually these kinds of things are straight forward but I am a British citizen moving from Switzerland to the a country in the European Union. Due to a change in relationship between Britain and Europe in the previous few years it means that a whole lot more paperwork is required to get these sorts of things done and it meant dealing with multiple bureaucracies in three separate countries. To put things in perspective I think I have dealt with more paperwork in this single year than of all of my previous years combined. And I'm 37 years old.

Not that I am really complaining. Everything has turned out well and I am now settled in my new home. It did mean that my work on Fishery has suffered massively as a result because I could not devote as much time as I wanted to getting things done and I spent a lot of time worrying about the potential outcomes of everything. But I have gotten a lot done. It is just not ready for all of you players yet.

But it will be ready soon, by soon I mean early March of 2025. Then after that the focus will be on releasing more regular updates for the rest of the year and then actually releasing the game out of early access in late December of 2025. This sounds ambitious but I am now in a position to devote myself fully to this endeavor and I think I can get it done.

This means that in the coming year players will start to see a lot of features and items in the game that we have promised over the years. Like for instance Seahorses.

This fellow is an almost final version of the first seahorse to go into the game and over the next year players can expect to see newts, crabs, frogs etc. As well as a many more fish, plants, and decorations etc.

I truly intend to make up for this years lack of Fishery updates and fulfill all of the promises I/we have made over the past few years to you all.

With that all said, We wish you all a very nice time during the Steam winter sale and look forward to posting updates in the very near future.

all the best,

The Fishery Team