Pleonexia sees you reeling in fish to make sure that everybody on the town will get one day-after-day. Nevertheless, consuming these fish is having some discomforting results.
CONTENT WARNING: Self-harm, violence, habit.
The individuals of this city simply can’t get sufficient of the fish you’re catching. They’re downright addictive. This has made them pretty insistent that they every get a fish day-after-day. They’re fairly alarming in that insistence, with the sport’s 1-bit visible fashion making every particular person really feel inhuman and intense. Each interplay, regardless of how cordial, feels loaded with this unstated promise of hazard. Their smiles really feel extra like sneers. It’s like they’re all gritting their tooth to maintain from leaping over-the-counter and biting your throat. So, what I’m saying is you’re going to need to catch sufficient fish for these individuals.
You’re a superb fisherman, however catching one thing isn’t a given if you put your hook within the water. You’ll have to search for darkish spots after which attempt to pull one thing up from them. Typically you get a fish, generally you pull up rubbish or completely nothing. All of the whereas the in-game clock ticks away. As time passes, clients will present up at your hut and occasions will happen. It is advisable attend to your clients (hopefully by giving them a fish), however you’ll rapidly discover it laborious to maintain up with the demand. You may flip individuals away at instances, however how lengthy do you suppose these people will tolerate your incapability to feed their wants? How lengthy can they preserve from appearing on that violence that lies behind their each smile.
Pleonexia exudes menace in its each interplay, and each second that ticks away with out touchdown a fish is an agonizing form of terror. Which one among these individuals will lastly snap and are available for you? And in the event that they don’t, what alarming issues will you discover about these addictive fish and the rationale you’re trapped right here?
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