Deep Regrets

Player No.: 1 - 5
Age: 14+
Playing Time: 30 - 150 mins
Version: Traditional Chinese

Don't entrust your life to the sea; once you get involved with it, you're doomed.

Listen, your life isn't perfect. You regret and feel remorse for some of the things you've done, but fishing can make you forget all that. The endless casting and reeling in is like a ritual, a solitude, a boundless sense of mystery, all at the end of that thin line, in the unknown depths of the sea. It's a remedy for this crazy world.

Yes, the world has gone mad. Over 200 years ago, Edmund Halley and his entire crew disappeared on an expedition to the ends of the earth—they were convinced the earth was hollow. At first, people said he was just senile, but in the centuries that followed, the veracity of his claims was re-examined. Recently, the fishing island of Logabala off the coast of Scotland vanished without a trace. In the North Sea, fishing nets were found teeming with worms bearing human fingers. In Hamney, an unidentifiable behemoth washed ashore. The once tranquil seas began to show ominous signs. Did Halley find his so-called hollow earth? Or did he find something far more mysterious? Did his discoveries trigger a shift in history? In short, this is a very strange time—an apocalyptic one.

But we must keep fishing. Whatever we catch, we must keep casting. Because it's the only sensible thing to do in this crazy world. Just cast and reel in. If you stop, you'll start to doubt yourself and lose control of reality.

Set sail, head out to sea, breathe in the salty air, swallow all your worries, cast your line, and reel it in.

Deep Regrets is an unfortunate fishing game about pulling progressively more horrifying things out of the ocean. Decide what to eat, what to sell, what to mount, and how many regrets you're willing to carry, as you push yourself too far and spiral towards a conclusion in this strategic horror fishing game.

You'll roll bespoke tackle dice at the start of each turn to determine your strength for that round and then decide whether you'll stay at sea or return to port to sell fish, buy provisions, and recharge your energy.

Survey the sizes of shadows on the backs of 9 different fish shoals at three depths, determining what you think you can afford to catch and if you want to risk it for a potentially better reward. Flip fish, spend dice, add them to your collection - but beware of reveal and catch abilities that can have various effects on the game! As your eyes spy more and more horrifying things, you'll collect Regrets cards - which drive up your madness but also give you access to more dice and increase the value of weirder fish. It's a risk/reward scenario as you balance your madness, knowing that at the end of the game the player with the highest value of Regrets will have to discard their most valuable mounted fish.

Manage you resources, make strategic decisions, leverage madness to your benefit and suppress your Regrets as you try to catch the most valuable haul of weirder and weirder fish in this weird week at sea.

SOLO MODE:
In the solo mode (which you can also co-op), you'll act as an ichthyologist on a mission to catch and catalog every fish in the sea. Over a campaign of dozens of games, you'll try to reel in every last fish and document their attributes on provided catalog sheet. At the end of each game, you'll have to discard an equal value of fish to the regrets you've collected and may have to let some fish go to return to another day. At the end of the campaign, you'll have a catalog of all fish names, depths, values ​​and difficulties that can be used by players in the multiplayer game to help identify what they might fish up!

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