Fishing Vacation
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99, a BANGER if it drops to $1.27.
- Length
- 0.6h 1.9h to 100%
- Value
- $3.32/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 286 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.27 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each 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
A Game Boy styled fishing horror adventure
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 41 MB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 16 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $1.27 BANGER line 12 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Death and Taxes ($1.68, scores 73).
More about Fishing Vacation
Steam's global achievement data puts 56 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 270 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 171 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.6 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 3.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
90% start to 56% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
What a fun, bite-sized fishing adventure! It definitely feels like you're playing an old Game Boy game and both the graphics as well as the sound design is charming in their own retro ways. I want MORE of this! :D
2 more reviews
Short, simple, yet satisfying! Maybe I'm just a sucker for retro aesthetics, fishing games, and underlying horror that slowly creeps up on you. Enjoyed it thoroughly!
Great, short little horror game about fishing. Sometimes you get fishing, sometimes it's something else. I really enjoyed the story and the aesthetic of the Gameboy vibe.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fishing Vacation scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1918300/fishing-vacationReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.