Fishing: Barents Sea
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9980% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.69/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 2,676
- Critics
- 69 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 10% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 36.2h
- To 100%
- 52.1h 1.4x the story
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 60 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 May 2025
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 78% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% start to 11% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
60 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 10 percent. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fishing Planet (free, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Fishing: North Atlantic - Enhanced Edition ($34.99, scores 32).
More about Fishing: Barents Sea
Critics scored it 69. Players sit 11 points higher at 80 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
7 of the 480 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 211 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 29 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
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2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Fairly braindead 'sim', but at least a deckhand lady named Karen made raw mackerel sammiches for a bunch of seamen.
Honestly almost had a sez moment because the bugs are so glitchy when trying to gut the fish its a nightmare. Don't pay full price until its fixed.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Commercial fishing on the Barents Sea! Take the helm of your very own fishing boat in Fishing: Barents Sea and explore the vastness of the Barents Sea in search for the best fishing zones. Start out small and earn officially licensed Scanmar Equipment and the officially licensed Hermes trawler.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Fishing: Barents Sea scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/501080/fishing-barents-seaReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.