The Wee Pier

The Wee Pier is an idle fishing game. Sit at the end of a stone pier on a Scottish island, and the fish bite on their own.

• You make the choices: what to buy, which skill to practise, which lures to pair and which knots to tie. The biggest fish only bite while you're there.
  
• Five Summers and a proper ending, a few hours in all, then fish on as long as you like
  
• Earn the Bait tin and the pier keeps fishing while you're away, up to eight hours
  
• No microtransactions, no ads, no timers, no energy and no ways to fail

Fish, sell, row further out

Every fish you land earns quid. Spend it on rods, bait and skills, then row out to new spots where bigger, rarer fish bite. In time, folk from the island fish beside you.

Five Summers

Each Summer ends with something big on the line. Then a new Summer starts. Your quid and gear go back to the start, but your catch log, your hands, your lore and the knots on your net stay, and your skills climb back three times as fast. Every Summer brings new fish.

Mend the old creel boat

In Summers 4 and 5 you fix up an old boat, one repair at a time, and every repair shows on her. Paint her, put her name on the bow, and take her out to the biggest fish in the game: a bluefin as heavy as a pony and a halibut wider than the pier gate. Every one of them goes back to the sea.

Features

• 121 catches to log, from shore crabs and a ship's bell to the giants, with rare silver and gold versions to find
  
• Four hands to hire who haul creels and run errands: Morag, Calum, Angus and his collie, and Eilidh the deckhand
  
• Eight skills to train, with a perk every ten levels
  
• 13 knots to tie on the net, upgrades that stay from one Summer to the next
  
• A creel boat to mend: ten repairs and two new fishing grounds
  
• Errands for the folk of the island that fill on their own and never fail
  
• Old island tales and 30 pieces of lore to collect
  
• 48 Steam achievements
  
• Seals, otters, puffins, gannets and the odd passing drizzle
  
• Larger text, reduced motion, four volume sliders and shape marks beside colours
  
• Plays with mouse or keyboard. Controller support is partial for now.

The Wee Pier is made by Peatstack, one person in Scotland.