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How to Fish cover art

How to Fish

Dazed Games · 2026-08-20

Steam

ActionCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Aug 20, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

221,197
playing now
95%
positive of 39k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
6,142
twitch viewers (latest)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.95
steam price (US)

221,197 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Thriving
  • · 221,197 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · Top 5% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 786k–1.8M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 39,324 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.95-38%
steam$4.95-38%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.95 at Steam (2026-08-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.95 · on sale 0 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

366k48k2026-08-22 01:00 — 48,384 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 55,665 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 107,252 players2026-08-22 19:00 — 113,980 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 80,508 players2026-08-23 07:00 — 126,983 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 221,943 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 162,536 players2026-08-24 01:00 — 106,296 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 133,641 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 279,662 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 146,931 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 97,327 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 148,016 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 311,939 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 155,308 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 99,517 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 152,058 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 320,550 players2026-08-26 20:00 — 146,674 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 107,412 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 161,018 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 366,297 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 130,177 players2026-08-28 02:00 — 90,421 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 136,416 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 282,425 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 120,431 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 86,454 players2026-08-29 08:00 — 139,270 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 253,783 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 123,973 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 84,879 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 138,628 players2026-08-30 14:00 — 239,400 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 221,197 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#5#452026-08-222026-08-302026-08-22 — #452026-08-23 — #112026-08-24 — #62026-08-25 — #52026-08-26 — #52026-08-27 — #52026-08-28 — #52026-08-29 — #52026-08-30 — #5
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
5.0k5.0k2026-08-222026-08-302026-08-22: 2,973 new positive2026-08-22: 155 new negative2026-08-23: 4,095 new positive2026-08-23: 255 new negative2026-08-24: 5,020 new positive2026-08-24: 326 new negative2026-08-25: 4,752 new positive2026-08-25: 235 new negative2026-08-26: 4,225 new positive2026-08-26: 265 new negative2026-08-27: 4,208 new positive2026-08-27: 257 new negative2026-08-28: 4,691 new positive2026-08-28: 203 new negative2026-08-29: 3,600 new positive2026-08-29: 164 new negative2026-08-30: 3,731 new positive2026-08-30: 169 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Twitch viewers

102k1.3k2026-08-20 17:12 — 4,050 viewers2026-08-21 11:12 — 1,627 viewers2026-08-21 17:12 — 10,375 viewers2026-08-22 04:12 — 5,479 viewers2026-08-22 10:12 — 4,377 viewers2026-08-22 18:12 — 10,355 viewers2026-08-23 03:12 — 12,822 viewers2026-08-23 15:12 — 4,978 viewers2026-08-23 23:12 — 10,168 viewers2026-08-24 05:12 — 11,809 viewers2026-08-24 11:12 — 6,437 viewers2026-08-25 00:12 — 10,271 viewers2026-08-25 06:12 — 54,342 viewers2026-08-25 14:12 — 27,485 viewers2026-08-25 21:12 — 55,576 viewers2026-08-26 04:12 — 2,308 viewers2026-08-26 19:15 — 28,372 viewers2026-08-26 22:12 — 5,995 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 41,351 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 11,740 viewers2026-08-27 08:12 — 8,678 viewers2026-08-27 11:12 — 2,436 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 9,002 viewers2026-08-27 18:12 — 9,887 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 39,032 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 72,758 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 4,584 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 3,731 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 4,145 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 8,403 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 14,320 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 6,033 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 2,210 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 7,079 viewers2026-08-29 20:12 — 10,979 viewers2026-08-29 23:12 — 4,509 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 4,289 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 1,694 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 6,142 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
100%
earned "Drip"
31.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCustom Volume ControlsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,9771%28

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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