fishy

fishy

Fair · Action · 2020

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $1.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2020. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
0.5h
Value
$2.98/hr
Reviews
86% of 428 positive
It needs 67% off ($0.98) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.

Full price

Fair$2.99

Today

−50%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.98 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$2.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $5.98/hr
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 319 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A game about a hungry fish 🐟 Eat to grow bigger, but watch out for fishes bigger than you! Grow big, strong and explore! Can you escape the pond?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible with at least 500MB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was December 2021. 38 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Airscape - The Fall of Gravity ($4.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Snake Pass ($3.99, scores 57).

More about fishy

This site sampled 319 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 212 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 60 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

80% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

I mean its a cheap game, its a good time waster, its simple, maybe the control is kinda frustating at first but yeah, worth it ig
ShawQRecommendedafter 1.6h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I honestly can't express how much joy this cheap, 2D game brings me. If you enjoyed the Fishy flash game growing up, this is that but evolved. I enjoy the added mechanics, puzzle-type features, and overall aesthetics of the game. Now, to the devs, my beloveds... I would absolutely adore if you added more settings, even a control menu/guide so you could tweak settings/controls to your liking. I just feel like x to...
slightly hauntedRecommendedafter 1.1hJan 2026Read on Steam
life-changing, fis-being, bigger-becoming, octopus-loathing, rage-baiting, murderous-screenstaring
RdpRecommendedafter 1.0hNov 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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fishy scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1212100/fishy
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSokpop Collective
PublisherSokpop Collective
GenreAction
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements10