A new indie game calledMoonglow Baywas announced at today’sXbox Indie Showcase. While it looks to be mostly calm and serene, and perhaps a bit somber, it seems like something more sinister may be hiding behind the game’s adorable surface.
On top of other announcements like new titles hitting Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft certainly gave indie games some well-deserved attention with today’s Xbox Indie Showcase. The event featured 100 games, with brand new trailers and gameplay for over 25 of them. Some of the other big indie highlights included aPikmin-like adventure calledThe Wild at Heartand apuzzle exploration game titledOmno. But alongside these relaxing indie games isMoonglow Bay, set to release sometime this year.
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Moonglow Bayis a fishing life-sim, where players will start as an amateur fisher on the Eastern Canadian coastline in the 1980s. After the protagonist and their partner moved to Moonglow Bay, cited as being a “town afraid of fishing” in the trailer, a tragedy strikes the couple and now the player must fulfill their partner’s last wish by keeping the fishing business afloat.
Combining anart style similar toMinecraft’s 3D pixelationand slice-of-life gameplay, players will get to go fishing and cook their catch of the day, but will also need to run a fishing shop inMoonglow Bayby selling a variety of recipes, and upgrading the store, gear, and fishing boat.
While out in Moonglow Bay, players have the possibility of coming across “epic encounters” and can explore the furthest reaches of the ocean such as frigid glaciers and boiling geysers, the game’s description says. And Moonglow Bay itself has its own dark secrets to uncover.
Moonglow Bayis slated to release in 2021 for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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