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How Fish Is Made

Wrong Organ · 2022-01-14

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 14, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Are sardines trustworthy? Are you? Do you want to be? How Fish is Made is a janky little jaunt through the world of surrealist storytelling. Now featuring a Katamari-like DLC!

95%
positive of 5.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (29 ratings)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
How Fish Is Made is a 2022 narrative adventure horror game developed by Wrong Organ in which the player takes control of a sardine and explores the concept of choice through dialogue with other fish.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 535 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~67/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 25,778 Indie games in the census by review count.

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Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

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