Dredge

I noticed that everyone was writing good reviews about this one so I decided to try it out.

>peacefully fishing and suddenly lift something terrible and grotesque out of the water

That's actually a really good idea for a game. Usually you find regular fish but sometimes you pull up some deformed monstrosity, and not knowing whether or not you're going to catch something scary makes for good horror.

Unfortunately it doesn't stay scary for very long. To begin with you carefully fish, cautiously taking the weird ones back to sell, and making sure you get home before dark. But after a while you realise that the dark doesn't actually do very much, and the aberration fish are basically just like shiny pokemon and the whole thing gets a bit less interesting.

The artists were kind of running out of ideas too where you find oh it's another horror fish with a big mouth or another one with rotting skin or another one with some eel looking things attached to it.

I suppose you can only do so much with that one mechanic. Still it was a nice idea and the lovecraftian atmosphere is cool.