Co-op fishing games on Steam: only 17 titles out of 596
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Steam’s Fishing tag holds 596 games. The Online Co-Op tag appears on only 17 of them — 2.9%. Fishing on Steam is almost always a solo affair, which is exactly why How to Fish looks out of place in this catalogue.
How rare co-op actually is
| Tag | Games out of 596 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Multiplayer | 53 | 8.9% |
| Online Co-Op | 17 | 2.9% |
| Co-op | 14 | 2.3% |
| Shooter | 9 | 1.5% |
For contrast, the Singleplayer tag appears on 65 games in the same catalogue — four times as many as the co-op tags.
All 17 fishing games with online co-op
| # | Game | Release | Price | Reviews | Positive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to Fish | 20.08.2026 | 159 UAH | 15 660 | 95 % |
| 2 | FlyKnight | 31.01.2025 | 149 UAH | 9 190 | 96 % |
| 3 | GONE Fishing | 15.06.2025 | 143 UAH | 2 066 | 93 % |
| 4 | Caravanners | 31.10.2025 | 375 UAH | 708 | 35 % |
| 5 | Fish Hunters: Most Lethal Fishing | 30.01.2026 | 149 UAH | 594 | 61 % |
| 6 | Water You Doing? | 26.08.2026 | 149 UAH | 185 | 51 % |
| 7 | Deep Blue Sushi | 20.08.2026 | 301 UAH | 153 | 74 % |
| 8 | The One Fish | 12.08.2026 | 195 UAH | 139 | 71 % |
| 9 | Animalkind | 30.03.2026 | 415 UAH | 68 | 91 % |
| 10 | Potion Brew: Co-op | 30.11.2023 | 124 UAH | 50 | 76 % |
| 11 | A Game About Penguins: First Catch | 22.07.2026 | free | 41 | 92 % |
| 12 | A Game About Penguins | 10.08.2026 | 230 UAH | 36 | 100 % |
| 13 | Heróis de Noname | 30.07.2024 | free | 28 | 96 % |
| 14 | Dockside Dreams | 21.11.2025 | 187 UAH | 22 | 59 % |
| 15 | Strange Shores | 20.05.2025 | 99 UAH | 14 | 92 % |
| 16 | Landelver | 06.01.2024 | 415 UAH | 12 | 41 % |
| 17 | Sheep Move Together | 17.07.2026 | 65 UAH | 11 | 81 % |
What the table shows
How to Fish holds 54.0% of all reviews in this group. The seventeen games together have 28 977 reviews, 15 660 of which belong to How to Fish. Second place, FlyKnight, trails by 1.7x.
12 of 17 games have fewer than two hundred reviews. This is not a competitive market but a nearly empty niche: half the list is tiny releases nobody noticed.
9 of 17 shipped in 2026. This corner of the catalogue is filling up right now, and most attempts are not finding an audience yet.
Prices are low. Two games are free and the median of the rest is 159 UAH. How to Fish costs exactly that, so it sits exactly on the median.
Scores are wildly uneven: from 35% on Caravanners to 100% on A Game About Penguins — though that hundred percent comes from 36 reviews, far too few to mean anything.
Why this matters for How to Fish
We measured earlier that How to Fish’s own two most popular user tags are Multiplayer and Online Co-Op, not Fishing. Now the other half of the picture is visible: in the catalogue the game was formally filed under, fewer than three percent of titles have co-op at all.
So How to Fish is not competing with fishing simulators. It competes inside a very narrow group where it is currently the largest entry by a wide margin.
What we are not claiming
The main limitation: Steam displays only about seven tags on a game’s card, and those are the ones we read. So our 17 is a lower bound — a co-op game whose seven visible tags are taken up by other words never enters the count. The same effect shows on the Fishing tag itself, which is displayed on just 268 of the 596 games in its own catalogue.
The review counts in the table come from Steam’s tooltip, meaning the English-language, Steam-purchase-only slice. How to Fish’s overall total is different and higher: 43 902 reviews.
We have not played these games and did not judge the quality of their co-op. The ordering is ours, by review count, not a store ranking.
Frequently asked questions
How many fishing games on Steam have co-op?
By the Online Co-Op tag, 17 of the 596 games in the Fishing catalogue, or 2.9%. That is a lower bound: Steam shows only about seven tags per game.
Which co-op fishing game is the biggest?
How to Fish. It accounts for 54% of all reviews in the group (15,660 out of 28,977), and second place trails by 1.7 times.
What is second after How to Fish?
FlyKnight — 9,190 reviews at 96% positive, released 31 January 2025.
Are there free fishing games with co-op?
Yes, two: A Game About Penguins: First Catch and Heróis de Noname.
What do these games cost?
The median paid price is 159 UAH. How to Fish costs exactly 159 UAH, so it sits exactly on this group median.