There is one thing every game needs and deserves: fishing. It doesn’t need to be detailed and realistic, but it needs to be there.
Unless you’re the developers of Farming Simulator 25, Giants Software, who appear to think it absolutely does need to be detailed and realistic. It’s a simulator, not a sim, thank you very much!
This essential upgrades will come with the reasonably titled Highlands Fishing Expansion planned for a release on November 12 this year. Of course, FS25 is a game interested in the detailed working of the farming industry, so it’ll simulate fishing in its commercial-scale form.
We got a good look at the new system during a presentation a few days ago, talking a little bit more about the opportunities we’ll get to pursue there.
Before you’ll be able to do any of the proper fishing, of course, you’ll need to make sure you have the fish. It’s a Farming Simulator, after all, doing the work of the trade is where the fun’s at. To this end, you’ll have access to giant fish tanks for letting young fish mature enough to survive when they get released into the ocean to finish growing.
When they do, you’ll be able to fish them with a rod or on a more commercially viable manner: with boats and big nets. Indeed, boats are coming, suited for both transporting the young fish out to the ocean, and for bring the big ones back for sale on the local market.
Oh, right, there’s also a new region, centered on a town of Kinlaig, strongly inspired by Scottish coastal towns, complete with thematically appropriate architecture and lay of the land, involving valleys, rolling hills, and lovely lumps of the highland cattle grazing on the grass. More pertinently to the gameplay, Kinlaig will have a port for all the fishing endeavors.
It’s not all fish and castles, either, as there are also a new crop (the good ol’ reliable onions) and new vehicles coming as well, so between this, aquaculture, and the new Scottish map, the expansion shapes up to be quite promising, especially if the more abstract and fantastical Stardew Valley or even Valheim don’t scratch your farming itch.
If you’d like to hear more about FS 25 fishing before its release in November, FarmCon 25 happened just a few days ago and more news are sure to be shared widely soon enough.