Fishing: Barents Sea
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.24. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 36.2h
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was May 2025. 59 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $6.24 at 75 percent off still sits 151 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. 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 33).
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 August 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.
The drop-off
90% start to 11% 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
25 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I just bought this on special - the game crashes every time you want to delete an old save in game - one would think that after so many years they would make sure it is playable??? - I own North Atlantic and that seems more stable... I'm done with this!!!
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.
It's a very good fishing game that I've played, but there are also some drawbacks and bugs, for example the weather and the sea. well, the sea almost never big waves, maybe sometimes, but then they are a bit bigger (not too much) and as for the weather. When it rains it is very bright and not cloudy and a very strange thing happened to me, so I was shot into the air 3 times, okay maybe I am complaining about a game...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Fishing: Barents Sea scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/501080/fishing-barents-seaThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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