DREADMOOR, a first-person fishing game set in a flooded world, enters Early Access on 9 November at $19.99

Dream Dock's trawler game, where you fish, scavenge and fight mutated creatures across the Submerged Lands, launches in Early Access with one major region and a 6 to 12 month plan. A demo is out now.

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DREADMOOR puts you on a fishing trawler in a world that a catastrophe has mostly sunk. Coastal regions are under water, the land that is left is rotting wetland, and the fish have changed. You catch them to trade, upgrade the boat, craft gear from scrap and blueprints, and fight the creatures that come at you on the water and on shore. Developer Dream Dock and publisher Digital Vortex Entertainment have now set its Early Access launch for 9 November 2026.

A follow-up post gives the price: $19.99, £17.75 or €20.49, with an optional Early Access Supporter Pack at $4.99 (£4.19). The game launches in 12 languages, with voice acting in English and Russian and subtitles for the rest.

What is in Early Access

The studio says the Early Access build has the complete core loop and one major region. The list covers sailing the Submerged Lands, a range of fish species including mutations, trawler and equipment upgrades, scavenging, and nights that make familiar water far less predictable. The store page adds a sorting twist: keep an eye on the hold, because the catch will eat each other. Once you reach the end of the current story, the water stays open for more fishing and upgrades.

Dream Dock expects the game to stay in Early Access for roughly 6 to 12 months, using the time to tune the economy, trawler progression and the risk of night trips, and to work on stability.

Try it first

A demo has been on Steam since early October and is part of Steam Next Fest. The studio says the demo can be played on Steam Deck and that it has been tuning it for the device, though the game has no official Deck Verified rating yet. Minimum specs are an Intel Core i5-8400 or Ryzen 5 2600, a GTX 1060 6 GB or RX 580 8 GB, and 8 GB of RAM.

Sources

• DREADMOOR: Get Ready for Early Access! (Steam)
• DREADMOOR Is Coming to Early Access on November 9th! (Steam)
• DREADMOOR on Steam (Steam)

Image: Dream Dock