How to Fish
Worth it · Action · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.86.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050, AMD RX 460 or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
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
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.95. It has gone on sale once in the 43 days tracked here, most recently in August 2026. Past sales have already crossed the $6.86 BANGER line once.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Snail Simulator ($4.99, scores 81).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 33 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to September 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 33 of 800 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 2,249 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
99% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 5.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
15.1K players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
How to Fish scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4001890/how-to-fishReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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