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The Wee Pier

A cosy idle fishing game on a Scottish island.

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The Wee Pier is a cosy idle fishing game on a Scottish island: fish from a stone pier while the bites come on their own.

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A cosy idle fishing game on a Scottish island. Fish from a stone pier while the bites come on their own, level eight skills, hire four hands, then mend an old creel boat and take her out to new grounds. Five Summers with a proper ending, 121 catches to log, and no timers or ways to fail.

Description: about 150 words

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.

Every fish you land earns quid. Spend it on rods, bait and skills, then row out to new spots where bigger, rarer fish bite. You make the choices: what to buy, which skill to practise, which lures to pair and which knots to tie. In time, folk from the island fish beside you.

Each Summer ends with something big on the line. Then a new Summer starts, and your catch log, your hands, your lore and the knots on your net all stay. In Summers 4 and 5 you mend an old creel boat, one repair at a time, and take her out to the biggest fish in the game.

Five Summers and a proper ending, a few hours in all, with no timers and no ways to fail. Coming to Steam for Windows and Linux on 18 November 2026. The first two Summers are free in the browser.

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
  • Earn the Bait tin and the pier keeps fishing while you're away, up to eight hours
  • 48 Steam achievements
  • Seals, otters, puffins, gannets and the odd passing drizzle
  • Larger text, reduced motion, four volume sliders and shape marks beside colours
  • No microtransactions, no ads, no timers, no energy and no ways to fail

Steam and the browser

The first two Summers are free to play in the browser. The Steam version has all five Summers, the creel boat, Eilidh the deckhand, 40 more catches to log and the 48 Steam achievements.

Screenshots

From the Steam build, October 2026. PNG, 1920 x 1080. Click one for the full-size file, or get them all in the zip. The eighth shows the ending.

  • Summer 1 at sunset: the fisherman hauls a fish out of the water at the end of the stone pier while two of the hands fish beside him and stacked fish boxes wait on the quay.
  • The catch log, 96 of 121 found, open at the Old Grey, a flapper skate tagged and let go, with the red creel boat out on the water behind.
  • At dusk from the creel boat, the fisherman fights the Barn Door, a 180 kilo halibut, as the first stars come out.
  • The Net at night: knots tied in three panels, the Pier, the Folk and the Sea, bought with Sea Glass between Summers.
  • The Skills page: Casting, Reeling, Focus and Knots, each with its level and a Train button, and a goal to row out to Beyond the Light.
  • The very start: one fisherman on the pier lands his first catch, a shore crab, for 25 quid.
  • Out on the Sound in the creel boat, a rainbow over the hills after a drizzle as a big haul lands.
  • The ending: night on the pier, the folk of the island lined up along the quay, the lighthouse beam across the sky and a line across the top: The light comes on.
  • Summer 5 in the rain: the whole crew and the collie fishing off the pier, with the mended creel boat moored in the bay.

Key art, logos and icon

PNG. The logos are on transparent backgrounds. Please scale by whole numbers with nearest-neighbour scaling; don't smooth or stretch the pixels. The game logo has its own dark outline and shadow, so the one file works on light and dark backgrounds.

Key art

Logos and icon

Video and GIFs

Recorded in September 2026 on an earlier browser build, so the buttons along the top have changed since. The screenshots above are current.

History

The Wee Pier began in September 2026 under the working title Creel Boat: a small, calm idle game about a fisherman on the end of a pier, with a proper ending. The free browser version went up on 23 September 2026 and was updated most days after that. Summers 3 to 5 and the creel boat were made for the Steam release. It is Peatstack's first game.

Where it's been

How it was made

The Wee Pier was made by one person working with AI tools. All of the pixel art (the scene, the boats, the characters, the fish, the interface, the icon and the store art) was made for the game, drawn pixel by pixel by scripts written with AI coding tools, in one shared palette. No image generation model was used.

The sound effects and the music were synthesised by code written with AI tools. The sea, the gulls, the foghorn, the rain and some splashes are built from CC0 recordings on Freesound (credited below).

The in-game text and the store page text were written with AI tools to the developer's direction. The code was written with AI coding assistants. Nothing is generated by AI while you play. To our knowledge nothing in the game infringes anyone's rights.

Credits and attributions

Made by Peatstack with Godot Engine (MIT licence). Steam support by GodotSteam (MIT licence). The pixel art, the music and the coins, bells, chimes and jingles were made for The Wee Pier.

Fonts

All under the SIL Open Font Licence 1.1: Pixellari by Zacchary Dempsey-Plante, Tiny5 by the Tiny5 Project Authors, Micro 5 by the Soft Type Project Authors, and Press Start 2P by CodeMan38.

Sound recordings from Freesound

Every recording below is CC0 1.0 (public domain), so credit is not required. They are credited anyway, with thanks. Each was trimmed, filtered and layered for the game.

RecordingByUsed for
bubble lapping wave on concrete pierbruno.auzetWater lapping on the pier
Gentle waves at Priory Bay, Isle of WightrichwiseOpen-water wash
Foghorns, Southampton Water, 3amrichwiseThe distant foghorn
Seagullpoodaddy69Gull calls
Seagulls.wavnifvimpGull call
Seagull ShowGirlWithSoundRecorderGull flock
Herring Gull 1.wav, Herring Gull 2.wavCanardo55The gull scared off the golden bottle
water_splash_10shots.wavvibe_crcBobber plop, bite, small splashes, the gannet's dive
Water Splash in Lake 05.wavvero.marengereFish landing, big splashes, otter and seal
Angel Fly Fish Reel Slow Wind_1.wavpaulpritThe reel click
Puffin soundshengjung425The puffins
crab walkingstuniversoCrab clicks
Rain on pondMjenoDrizzle on the water
Rain on woodSamsterBirdiesDrizzle on the pier

Streaming and videos

Streaming and monetising videos of The Wee Pier is welcome.

Contact

Press, creators, keys or questions: hello@peatstack.co.uk. The Peatstack Discord has updates and sneak peeks.