The FYNG Show at gamescom 2025 didn’t kick off with the familiar faces Maurice and AK – but with the moderation interns
. However, this was a well-known YouTube group and they brought an update for their own game.
Who crashed the FYNG Show? The crashing group was none other than Viva la Dirt League, the New Zealand comedy YouTubers with over 7 million subscribers. Their game Nice Day for Fishing, developed in collaboration with FusionPlay, announced a series of new features during their guest appearance:
- New elite enemies
- New sails for the boat
- More speed for the boat
- New items
- New skins for Baelin
- Seasonal events
Moreover, the game is finally set to be released on Xbox.
The new content will be completely free, as the YouTubers explained over the repeated Nice Day for Fishing, ain’t it
shouts of fisherman Baelin. Until the real presenters AK and Maurice Weber shooed them off the stage.
The announcement took place during the FYNG Show (Find your next Game) by GameStar, GamePro, and MeinMMO at gamescom. It was a show act.
In the trailer, you can take a closer look at the updates:
A rod to rule them
What kind of game is Nice Day for Fishing? Nice Day for Fishing was developed in cooperation with the German developers at FusionPlay and was released in May 2025 on Steam, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
The pixel-art game takes place in the world of a fantasy MMORPG, where something terrible happens: all the players disappear, and the NPCs are left to fend for themselves. But the local fisherman Greg can suddenly take on quests – so his NPC friends send him off to save their world.
As players, it is now your task to travel with fisherman Greg in a side-scrolling manner through the world and save it. By catching fish. As many as possible, with various baits and rods. The NPCs give out tasks and sell better and better items. And of course, you follow the big storyline about the missing MMORPG players.
If you want to read more about the game, you can do so in our preview report:
Who is Viva la Dirt League? The world and characters of Nice Day for Fishing are based on the MMORPG parodies Epic NPC Man
by the YouTuber Viva la Dirt League. They follow the everyday life of the merchant NPC Greg, who often interacts with players. The players tend to skip his dialogue or complain about too skimpy breastplates for female characters.
Besides Epic NPC Man
, the group has tackled several other games and topics since its founding in 2011: Witcher Logic
critiques the Netflix adaptation of The Witcher books. Tarkov Logic
deals with Escape from Tarkov. Additionally, there are more parody series covering Red Dead Redemption, Souls games, Apex Legends, and Dungeons & Dragons.
During the FYNG Show, however, there was not just this one takeover. A well-known streamer was quite upset about the not-so-excellent rating for his new game and threatened to shut down the entire show: Twitch streamer HandOfBlood retaliates over “poor” rating of his game, hijacks major livestream at gamescom
Update, August 22: In an earlier version of the article, it stated that Team17 was the developer studio of Nice Day for Fishing. That is not correct. The game was developed by the German studio FusionPlay. Team17 is the publisher of the game.
