Catch & Release
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.5h
- Value
- $2.10/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 359 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.29 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1246 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Catch & Release places you on a beautiful mountain lake and lets you freely explore and row around while you choose your fishing spot and take in the scenery.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970 4 GB / AMD Radeon RX 480, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 15 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 18 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 178 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fishing Planet (free, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Euro Fishing ($19.99, scores 11).
More about Catch & Release
Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 111 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
94% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 20:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I love this game so much and wish there was more. I would gladly pay for DLC. The ambiance, the fishing is so so relaxing after a long day of work. It's hot where I'm at so fishing in real life is out of the question at the moment. This game scratches that itch quite nicely. But I want more, I hope the devs come out with something else. I know they don't have anything else on Steam but wow this is such a great game...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Catch & Release scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/679750/catch-releaseReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.