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Critical Fishing

lazygun · 2024-11-04

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 04, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take part in wormkinds heroic struggle for freedom from their archnemesis. Upgrade your arsenal, tools and submarine to decimate the fish population to reach the ultimate goal: to boldly go where no worm has gone before.

96%
positive of 51 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 27,397 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.0k–2.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 51 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 8 of 9 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520242026Week of 2024-11-04: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$2.392024-11-042026-07-092024-11-04 — best price $5.992024-12-19 — best price $4.192025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-01-25 — best price $5.392025-02-01 — best price $5.992025-03-13 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $5.992025-06-16 — best price $4.192025-06-23 — best price $5.992025-06-27 — best price $2.992025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-09-29 — best price $4.192025-10-06 — best price $5.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-01-05 — best price $5.992026-01-22 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.392026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-05-18 — best price $2.392026-05-25 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.392026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieActionCasualFishingShooterColorfulSubmarineUnderwater

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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