TORCHWATER
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation. Free.
TORCHWATER is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
Light the water, draw the shoal, land the season. TORCHWATER is a free incremental for your browser about a cove's fire-fishing fleet. On dark summer nights your boats row out and light the fires at their bows. Shoals rise to the flame and leap at it, and the netters scoop them out of the air. The same flame that draws a shoal is the only light you can see it by, and the moon decides how far that light carries.
New in 1.1, from your comments The full moon says what it does. On a full moon a plain torch draws nothing (a carbide lamp only what is right beside it) and a flare pulls a shoal in. The forecast now leads with that, the rule stays on the night's bar until your first flare, and an empty dawn names it.
A pulsing mark on the water shows where a tap sends your boat while the whole fleet waits at the berth, and every berth has a lantern, so a waiting boat can be seen on a dark night. Tapping your own boat flares only while fish leap at its fire, so a nudge never fires a flare by accident. The FLARE button, F and Space still flare at any time. Q and E step through the boats.
A ring fills round a shoal that is growing used to a steady light, and its boat's row says "tiring".
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.