FISH FEAR ME
Fair · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 227 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
A top-down action roguelite about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, and catching more fish. Upgrade your boat and weapons, hunt down sea monster bounties, delve into eldritch mysteries, and try to pay off a cosmic debt millennia in the making.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA T500, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 13 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Blazing Beaks ($14.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot ($4.99, scores 49).
More about FISH FEAR ME
8 of the 212 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 7 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 8 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review.
The drop-off
90% start to <1% rarestNo 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
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Unfortunately I can't recommend Fish Fear Me. I absolutely loved Snake Farm and hoped for a similar experience. What made Snake Farm great was that it was tough, but fair. Fish Fear Me is tough, and unfair. First off, the boat is tough to control. Having done a bit of real world sailing, this is entirely accurate. However, for a game where accuracy and avoidance against fast moving enemies is of paramount...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The biggest issue is I just am not enjoying controlling the character. I loved the snake version of this Heather did but after an hour in this I am just not enjoying the actual gameplay. The story attached is interesting but not nearly enough to get past how annoying the anchor is or how underpowered every weapon feels. The closest I got was playing the whale where my little minions went out and killed for me and I...
This game starts out extremely tough. If you stick with it for a bit and find some strategies, it gets a little easier, and becomes just tough. The tone is perfect, the soundtrack is multiple bangers that I can't get out of my head, and I'm having such a good time that I want to try to 100% it. If you like bullet hell/survivor games, this is a winner
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FISH FEAR ME scores 52/100 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/3000120/fish-fear-meReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.