DoubleMoose Games Announces Six-Player Airship Game Fish & Ships
DoubleMoose Games, founded by former Coffee Stain staff, is building a co-op game where the crew's own members are a resource, so the people you depend on for repairs and refueling are also the ones you can throw off the ship.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, Automaton.
DoubleMoose Games announced Fish & Ships on September 21. The PC (Steam) release is an action-adventure game for 2 to 6 players who play as fish crewing an airship. One player takes the helm, another works the ropes to raise sails, and another handles repairs. Coal fuels the engine, though a crewmate's body can be used instead. Players dock at floating islands inhabited by humans and can steal alcohol, cigarettes, a stereo, food, and guns.
The airship needs constant attention. Someone pilots, someone works the ropes to raise the sails, someone runs repairs, and the engine needs coal loaded at regular intervals. The game allows a crewmate's body to be used as fuel instead.
Floating islands where humans live are scattered along the route. Players dock to buy fuel and repair kits, and the supplies they carry back can include alcohol, cigarettes, a stereo, food, and guns. The guns fire at crewmates. Crewmates can also be thrown off the ship, so the fish searching together for the sea sometimes fight instead. The piloting, repairs, and refueling continue through all of it.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.