Lake Prespa

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About this game

Lake Prespa is a quiet fishing and village-building game set on a real lake high in the Balkan mountains, in the village of Pustec, Albania.

You arrive on the shore with a rod and an empty plot by the water. Baba Mara has watched this lake her whole life, and she remembers everything. Fish, sell your catch and raise the village again, roof by roof and season by season, while she tells you what the lake keeps.

FISH THE WAY PUSTEC ALWAYS HAS
• Cast a rod from the pier, float a pelaizia (a raft of juniper branches the fish shelter under) and throw the weighted pezula net over a shoal
• Eleven fish of the lake to find, from carp and the little Prespa bleak to the legendary Prespa trout
• A fishing journal for every catch, every record and every rare one

BUILD A VILLAGE BY THE WATER
• Eighteen kinds of building, each with three tiers: huts and piers, a smokehouse, a clay oven, a rakija still, beehives, a weaving loom and more
• Buildings that work together: dry and smoke the catch, bake tava, press the grapes
• Villagers, donkeys and boats bring the shore to life as it grows

LIVE A YEAR AT THE LAKE
• Four seasons that change the water, the fish and the work
• Pelicans in spring, the summer fair, the grape harvest on the terraced hill
• Bring the old vineyard back, then row out to Maligrad, the island in the middle of the lake

A STORY IN FIVE ACTS
• About twenty hours of story, told by Baba Mara over two years at the lake
• A mystery older than the village, and nothing to rush you through it

YOURS TO PLAY
• No ads and no in-app purchases. No energy, nothing to pay to keep playing
• Plays offline. Your village can be kept in the cloud with no sign-in, and moved to a new phone with a transfer code
• Leaderboards for prestige and the biggest fish, under a name the lake gives you

Inspired by the real beauty of Lake Prespa.

What’s new

The children are out playing: cilipinga on the main road against Vesna, with a new board for the longest turn, and Kiro's slingshot and six tin cans on the wall. During the Summer Fair a visitor off the boats wants a match. Also: the Northern Church stands out on the spit with the shore road running on to it, the reel follows your thumb more closely, the mountain and the dish have English names, and Baba Mara's words no longer jump about as she speaks.