Fish Game
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.4h
- Value
- $3.38/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 649 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.03 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
About the game
Fish Game is a detailed and highly “sofishticated” freshwater aquarium simulator, lovingly crafted *by* enthusiasts *for* enthusiasts! Featuring fish with personalities and dynamic relationships, water quality modeling, and so much more! Made with support from our friends at Smarter Every Day!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 23 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Aquarist ($7.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats The Tenants ($7.99, scores 56).
More about Fish Game
Of the 340 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 719 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 117 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
My daughter likes fish IRL. After showing this game to her, she played it for 7.5 hours on the first day. I'm a bad parent for letting her.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
F I B S H (It does run a bit warm on my laptop but so worth it, including all the DLCs)
This game was so close to being exactly the kind of aquarium game I was looking for: the ability to create realistic aquascapes and aquariums, adding what you wish, while not being a pure chemistry simulator. From what I've played, aquarium games never get the balance right between realism and convenience/fun. This was *so* close. I don't know what the developer's work cycle is like. Gamedev is time consuming and a...
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Cite this score
Fish Game scores 60/100 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/1372150/fish-gameReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.