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Ice Lakes cover art

Ice Lakes

Iceflake Studios · Paradox Interactive · 2016-04-19

Steam

IndieSimulationSports

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Apr 19, 2016 (Linux), Apr 19, 2016 (Mac), Apr 19, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 07, 2016 (iOS)

Ice Lakes is a modern ice fishing simulator with different single and multiplayer game modes and sandbox approach to wintertime fishing. Use and customize wide selection of fishing gear and learn how changing season, bottom topology, time of day and weather conditions affects fish behavior.

1
playing now
86%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 19% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 41k–98k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,640 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.04 at GameBillet (2024-12-01) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 20 of 43 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

802026-08-06 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.042016-04-192026-08-212016-04-19 — best price $11.992016-11-01 — best price $14.992017-07-24 — best price $14.992018-02-15 — best price $7.492018-12-20 — best price $8.992020-01-23 — best price $7.492020-06-07 — best price $13.392020-07-19 — best price $14.992020-08-18 — best price $14.992020-09-18 — best price $14.992020-10-21 — best price $14.992020-11-19 — best price $13.392020-12-19 — best price $13.392021-01-24 — best price $13.392021-02-26 — best price $14.992021-03-28 — best price $14.992021-04-28 — best price $14.992021-05-28 — best price $14.992021-08-18 — best price $3.792021-11-03 — best price $14.992022-01-02 — best price $14.992022-03-12 — best price $12.902022-05-26 — best price $13.392022-08-14 — best price $3.122022-11-14 — best price $3.302023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-04-13 — best price $3.442023-07-15 — best price $3.752023-11-17 — best price $3.742024-04-01 — best price $14.982024-05-23 — best price $14.992024-09-03 — best price $13.492024-12-01 — best price $3.042025-05-08 — best price $3.742025-11-20 — best price $3.232026-04-14 — best price $13.392026-08-21 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
76.7%
earned "Catch a Fish"
1.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedSteam Trading CardsSteam Cloud

7 supported languages: English, Finnish, German, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,9601%60

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

Player tags

VRIndieCasualSportsFishingOpen WorldSimulationCompetitiveMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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