Fishing The Abyss
BANGER · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99.
- Length
- 8.5h 45.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 432 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 7 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
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
This is a relaxing atmospheric game where you simply watch a robot catch creatures. Place it at the edge of your screen like a vertical desktop accessory and observe the ecosystem. It’s neither an idle game with mountains of stats nor an exciting fishing game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel UHD Graphics, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 9 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Swallow the Sea (free, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Decarnation ($14.99, scores 59).
More about Fishing The Abyss
Of the 320 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026.
8.5 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% start to 25% 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
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 06:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I ran into a bug where I couldn't open the back side of the encyclopedia, so I had to rely on the random option. Because of that, it took me 100 hours to complete the game. It's not a bad idle game, but it has way too many bugs.
2 more reviews
I love this game! Highly recommend to anyone who wants a unique desktop companion/decoration and likes games with similar themes to Dredge and Bloodborne. The aquarium free DLC is amazing! Gameplay: Simple; this game doesn't ask much of the player. I love the sounds that indicate user input is needed. Upgrades make sense and are paced well, I found the rate at which I was filling up the encyclopedia was proportional...
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Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fishing The Abyss scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3313310/fishing-the-abyssReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.