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How to Fish

Dazed Games · 2026-08-20

Steam

ActionCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

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.

How to Fish is an Action, Casual, Indie and Simulation game released in 2026, priced at $4.95, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 67618 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

13,832
playing now
95%
positive of 82k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
580
twitch viewers (latest)
10.4
viewers/channel (concentration)
121
Nexus mods (212k downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.95
steam price (US)

13,832 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

How to Fish trailer thumbnail

How to Fish - Official Gameplay Trailer | The Secret Sauce Showcase 2026

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 13,832 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 69,867 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9,981/week).
  • · Top 1% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-16

Tier history: unknown→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→unknown (Sep 16)

Estimated sales: 1.6M–3.7M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 82,207 total reviews — how this is computed.

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)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
22k22k20262026Week of 2026-08-20: 21,820 positiveWeek of 2026-08-20: 1,390 negativeWeek of 2026-08-27: 19,330 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 964 negativeWeek of 2026-09-03: 8,407 positiveWeek of 2026-09-03: 421 negativeWeek of 2026-09-10: 5,217 positiveWeek of 2026-09-10: 285 negativeWeek of 2026-09-17: 3,305 positiveWeek of 2026-09-17: 178 negativeWeek of 2026-09-24: 3,192 positiveWeek of 2026-09-24: 154 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 4,903 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 301 negativeWeek of 2026-10-08: 2,313 positiveWeek of 2026-10-08: 127 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

81k8.4k2026-09-14 18:00 — 28,826 players2026-09-15 18:00 — 25,904 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 12,499 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 13,268 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 25,593 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 19,088 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 10,010 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 9,354 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 8,371 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 8,381 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 18,052 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 21,299 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 19,299 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 9,042 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 14,348 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 14,618 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 21,728 players2026-10-02 08:00 — 35,068 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 47,013 players2026-10-04 08:00 — 48,526 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 35,908 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 32,279 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 30,813 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 21,194 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 20,755 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 21,801 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 31,922 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 10,553 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 9,143 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 8,381 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 13,832 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#20#512026-09-142026-10-142026-09-14 — #232026-09-15 — #232026-09-16 — #302026-09-17 — #302026-09-18 — #332026-09-19 — #332026-09-20 — #332026-09-21 — #332026-09-22 — #372026-09-23 — #412026-09-24 — #472026-09-25 — #512026-09-26 — #462026-09-27 — #452026-09-28 — #452026-09-29 — #432026-09-30 — #312026-10-01 — #312026-10-02 — #312026-10-03 — #252026-10-04 — #202026-10-05 — #202026-10-06 — #202026-10-07 — #282026-10-08 — #282026-10-09 — #292026-10-10 — #322026-10-11 — #352026-10-12 — #362026-10-13 — #372026-10-14 — #50
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
1.0k1.0k2026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 628 new positive2026-09-15: 22 new negative2026-09-16: 597 new positive2026-09-16: 18 new negative2026-09-17: 559 new positive2026-09-17: 30 new negative2026-09-18: 1,027 new positive2026-09-18: 60 new negative2026-09-19: 643 new positive2026-09-19: 30 new negative2026-09-20: 625 new positive2026-09-20: 31 new negative2026-09-21: 438 new positive2026-09-21: 17 new negative2026-09-22: 413 new positive2026-09-22: 28 new negative2026-09-23: 342 new positive2026-09-23: 19 new negative2026-09-24: 345 new positive2026-09-24: 14 new negative2026-09-25: 374 new positive2026-09-25: 10 new negative2026-09-26: 492 new positive2026-09-26: 22 new negative2026-09-27: 510 new positive2026-09-27: 36 new negative2026-09-28: 489 new positive2026-09-28: 21 new negative2026-09-29: 541 new positive2026-09-29: 19 new negative2026-09-30: 593 new positive2026-09-30: 11 new negative2026-10-01: 465 new positive2026-10-01: 36 new negative2026-10-02: 1,042 new positive2026-10-02: 58 new negative2026-10-03: 860 new positive2026-10-03: 65 new negative2026-10-04: 995 new positive2026-10-04: 57 new negative2026-10-05: 836 new positive2026-10-05: 50 new negative2026-10-06: 760 new positive2026-10-06: 28 new negative2026-10-07: 612 new positive2026-10-07: 38 new negative2026-10-08: 551 new positive2026-10-08: 33 new negative2026-10-09: 579 new positive2026-10-09: 23 new negative2026-10-10: 595 new positive2026-10-10: 26 new negative2026-10-11: 673 new positive2026-10-11: 43 new negative2026-10-12: 537 new positive2026-10-12: 27 new negative2026-10-13: 457 new positive2026-10-13: 26 new negative2026-10-14: 365 new positive2026-10-14: 18 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Twitch viewers

30k412026-09-30 18:34 — 729 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 568 viewers2026-10-01 12:34 — 304 viewers2026-10-01 21:34 — 340 viewers2026-10-02 06:34 — 324 viewers2026-10-02 15:34 — 763 viewers2026-10-03 00:34 — 799 viewers2026-10-03 09:34 — 370 viewers2026-10-03 17:34 — 665 viewers2026-10-04 02:34 — 863 viewers2026-10-04 11:34 — 466 viewers2026-10-04 20:34 — 1,861 viewers2026-10-05 05:34 — 517 viewers2026-10-05 14:34 — 193 viewers2026-10-05 23:12 — 30,255 viewers2026-10-06 07:34 — 471 viewers2026-10-06 16:34 — 369 viewers2026-10-07 01:34 — 472 viewers2026-10-07 10:34 — 93 viewers2026-10-07 19:34 — 1,673 viewers2026-10-08 04:34 — 346 viewers2026-10-08 13:34 — 374 viewers2026-10-08 22:34 — 757 viewers2026-10-09 07:34 — 89 viewers2026-10-09 16:34 — 564 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 821 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 213 viewers2026-10-10 19:12 — 5,381 viewers2026-10-11 02:34 — 287 viewers2026-10-11 11:34 — 241 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 1,943 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 375 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 100 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 305 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 199 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 554 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 348 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 51 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 580 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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