Fishing Planet

Fishing Planet

Worth it · Strategy · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it at free.

Length
4.6h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
87% positive
Length
4.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
100h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
87%
77,375 reviews, as of Sep 11
Players
7.5M
owners (estimate)
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050/AMD Radeon RX 570 or higher, 14 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Fishing Planet® is a highly realistic first-person online multiplayer fishing simulator. Developed by avid fishing enthusiasts to bring you the full thrill of actual angling on your PC. Free-to-Play and just a download away!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Replayability~28h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 4.6h main story
Reach7.5M+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMEmail registration account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Length4.6 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies

The value story

Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Professional Fishing (free, scores 44) and Russian Fishing 4 (free, scores 10), are both worse buys on this math.

4.6 hours to finish it, 100 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 22 times the campaign.

9 years after release it still had 2.8K people in it at once.

It is still busy. 2.8K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.

The drop-off

53% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

2,781 players at peak in the last day.

The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

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Fishing Planet scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/380600/fishing-planet
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The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.

Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11.

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Tags

Details

DeveloperFishing Planet LLC
PublisherFishing Planet LLC
GenreStrategy
Released2017
Achievements17