Game of the Day: Cast n Chill

While browsing Nintendo's Winter Sale in the eShop the other day, I came across Cast n Chill. Made by Australian dev Wombat Brawler, it's a cozy fishing game with a simple premise: you pilot a small boat across lakes, rivers, and oceans, catching fish at your own pace.

But what caught my eye is the art style. I mean, look at it:

A few others, including Ged Maheux, seemed to agree:

It also struck me how far games have come since I first started playing back in 1997 (Pokémon Blue on the Game Boy Color). Back then, if you weren’t Square Enix, Nintendo, or another big developer, you barely stood a chance of getting noticed. There was no real internet ecosystem for small teams, no social media, no storefronts surfacing niche gems.

Now, if you have a vision and the skills to build something that works, you can make something truly beautiful and actually get it in front of people. This game is proof of that.

Then there’s the price. It’s €15, currently on sale for €11. For a small, handcrafted game, that feels more than fair, especially when many big releases are pushing close to €80. Granted, those games are made by much larger teams with huge budgets. But still, these two people spent probably years building this game. Years of late nights and early mornings creating something they truly believe in.

That's something worth supporting, in my opinion. You can grab it on the Nintendo eShop or Steam.