MOONGLOW BAY
Bunnyhug’s debut pulls you in hook, line and sinker
Developer Bunnyhug Games
Publisher Coatsink
Format PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Origin UK, Canada
Release 2021
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Moonglow Bay takes inspiration from several reallife coastal towns, including St John’s in Nova Scotia and Staithes in Yorkshire
The waters of Moonglow Bay teem with life: a fortune’s worth, in fact, for any competent fisherman. But the people here do not fish. Suspicion, grief and the good oldfashioned ravages of time are working together to smother this quaint Canadian hamlet. But it’s never too late to get better – not as long as one person still cares.
When hunting for the core of their fishing game, Bunnyhug founders Lu Nascimento and Zach Soares found it by stripping back. The most successful prototype was the simplest: a brisk back-and-forth loop of fishing on the sea and cooking on the shore. “People sat down and played this thing for like 15 minutes. They were super-happy doing just that,” Soares says. “And I was like: cool! Anything we add to this is just extra flavour.”