Ultimate Fishing Simulator®
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 (4 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 560 (4 GB), 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bored of waiting for a bite? Would you like to catch some fish? You're lucky - in Ultimate Fishing Simulator, fish bite like crazy! Spinning, float fishing, ground fishing, and more! Comprehensive fishing simulator that allows using various techniques, in different places around the world!
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in September 2025. 98 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Way of the Hunter ($29.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Russian Fishing 4 (free, scores 10).
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
36 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 105 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 1,688 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
62% 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
37 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Ultimate Fishing Simulator® scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/468920/ultimate-fishing-simulatorThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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