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Fishing The Abyss cover art

Fishing The Abyss

umaaaaaa studio · 2024-12-16

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This is a relaxing atmospheric game where you simply watch a robot catch creatures. Place it at the edge of your screen like a vertical desktop accessory and observe the ecosystem. It’s neither an idle game with mountains of stats nor an exciting fishing game.

95%
positive of 431 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 47% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (89 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 13,645 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.6k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 431 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.49 at Steam (2025-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
858520242026Week of 2024-12-16: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-12-16: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-23: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-12-23: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-30: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-12-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-06: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-13: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-01-20: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-27: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-03: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-10: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-17: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-24: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-10: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-17: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-24: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-14: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-05: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-12: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-19: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-30: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-14: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-31: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$3.492024-12-162026-07-092024-12-16 — best price $4.892024-12-30 — best price $6.992025-03-13 — best price $4.892025-03-20 — best price $6.992025-04-26 — best price $4.892025-05-06 — best price $6.992025-06-27 — best price $3.492025-07-10 — best price $6.992025-09-29 — best price $4.892025-10-06 — best price $6.992025-12-18 — best price $3.492026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-03-19 — best price $4.892026-03-26 — best price $6.992026-06-25 — best price $4.892026-07-09 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
68.4%
earned "Fishing and music"
45.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-05-23 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)20351%10

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCuteDarkIdlerIndieRetroCasualHorrorClickerRelaxing

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.