Call of the Wild: The Angler™
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 11.6h
- Value
- $2.59/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 4 GB or AMD RX 480 4 GB, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Angler is an open world fishing game that can be played solo or with friends. Discover and catch a wide variety of unique fish species, from common to rare, on your journey to become a master angler.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 33 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, theHunter: Call of the Wild™ (free, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Russian Fishing 4 (free, scores 10).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 11.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 559 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 27 percent of the 1,351 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
11.6 hours to finish it, 40 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On an 11.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
92 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's relaxing and a lot of fun with some awesome moments when you reel in a big one!
i like being pathetic and pulling my river boat in front of the shore fishermen and then catching the fish and showing it to them
Barebones "wide as an ocean, deep as a kiddie pool" content and it looks like its been abandoned... you can't even display your fish as trophies in a lodge like you can in Hunter: COTW... not sure if its something in the works or if its something we're forced to deal with due to the misguided ideologies of individual devs (I unfortunately suspect its the latter due to the increasingly millennial writing present in...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Call of the Wild: The Angler™ scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1408610/call-of-the-wild-the-anglerReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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