A live weather engine runs the whole server at once — dock prices, hull speed,
catch behaviour and storm risk, moving together for everyone.
02 / Physical
An honest seafloor
Sixty-four kilometres of ocean cut from real survey bathymetry — ten grounds, from a
sheltered estuary down a thousand metres to the wall at the ice edge.
03 / Shared
One shared ledger
Every captain sells into the same ledger. A storm you never sailed into can still
move the price of the fish already in your hold.
Feature 01 — The Weather Engine
Read the sky
Weather is a financial instrument.
One server-owned engine runs the sky for every player at once.
Every state it moves through carries four consequences — dock prices, hull speed, catch behaviour and storm risk. When a gale
closes the outer grounds, supply tightens and everything already landed is worth more. The forecast is the market.
Feature 02 — The Ocean
Sound the deep
A real seafloor, 1,025 metres down.
The bottom is cut from real GEBCO survey bathymetry — sixty-four by
sixty-four kilometres of it. Ten grounds run from a sheltered estuary to a wall at the ice edge, each with its own
depth, current and life. Your hull rides the swell on real four-point buoyancy, and the fish keep real schedules.
Feature 03 — The Catch
Work the grounds
582 outcomes. Public odds. Server-side.
Species, variant and quality roll independently — five hundred and
eighty-two possible reads on the sounder, weighed in kilograms. The odds are published: Normal fifty percent down
to Legendary one. No pity timers, no loot theatre, no client-side dice.
Feature 04 — The Market
One shared market
The tide moves every ledger.
Freshness decays, ports pay differently, and storms move the index for
the whole server. Sell well, refit, and buy your way into deeper water — where the fish are bigger and the weather
is the only thing that can sink you.
Every figure is public
Priced by the sky. Weighed in kilograms.
0shared sky, server-wide
0catch outcomes
0mto the wall
64×64kmof seafloor
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Odds public — Normal 50% to Legendary 1%. Rolled server-side. No pity timers, no client-side dice.
Built in the open
Built solo, shown honestly.
Anchor Point is developed by one person at Whale Dev Studios on Unreal
Engine 5. The tech logs and the Journal tell the truth about how it's made — greybox today, a working coast tomorrow.
What Anchor Point is, when it sails, what it runs on and who is
building it — answered plainly, the same way the odds are.
01 / Multiplayer
Is Anchor Point multiplayer?
Yes. Anchor Point is a massively multiplayer fishing simulation — one server-owned sky and one shared
ledger for every captain on the server. Work the grounds alone or run with a crew; a storm you never sailed
into can still move the price of the fish already in your hold.
02 / Release
When does Anchor Point release?
Early Access is planned for 2027. The game is pre-alpha and in active solo development at Whale Dev
Studios. Founding captains on the waitlist get first call when public playtests leave the harbor, plus a
free premium equipment drop at launch.
03 / Platform
What platform is Anchor Point on?
PC — Windows, built in Unreal Engine 5. There is no Steam page yet; the waitlist is the fastest way to
hear about it the day it goes up.
04 / Simulation
Is Anchor Point a realistic fishing simulator?
It simulates a commercial fishing career, not an arcade cast and reel. The seafloor is cut from real
GEBCO survey bathymetry, the water is an in-house simulation with physical buoyancy, and the fish keep real
seasonal and daily schedules. Every catch is three independent server-side rolls — 582 outcomes, with the
odds published: Normal 50% down to Legendary 1%.
05 / The Studio
Who is making Anchor Point?
Ekin Arca, solo, at Whale Dev Studios in Istanbul, Türkiye. The tech logs and the Journal tell the truth
about how it is made — greybox today, a working coast tomorrow.
Founding Captains
Sign the manifest before the first boats go out.
First-wave playtest access, a free premium equipment drop at launch,
and honest dev logs straight from the shipyard. No spam — just the tide report.
