How to Fish in numbers: every figure as of 31 August

Contents
  1. Release and price
  2. Reviews
  3. Concurrents
  4. Content
  5. Time and platforms
  6. Small things that are also numbers
  7. What we are not claiming

We collected everything we measured about How to Fish into one table. There is a single capture date on all of it — 31 August 2026. That matters: roughly half of these numbers change daily, and some change hourly.

Release and price

Metric Value
Release date 20 August 2026
Days on sale 11
Developer and publisher Dazed Games
Price in the US $7.99
Price in Ukraine 159 UAH
Discount right now 0%
Launch discount 38% for one week

Reviews

Metric Value
Total reviews 43,770
Positive 41,535 (94.9%)
Negative 2,235 (5.1%)
Average per day since release 3,979
Current pace (800-review slice) ~2,688 per day
Score across the newest 800 94.8%
Languages in reviews 16
Largest review language English, 41.0%
Not purchased on Steam 5,065 reviews (11.6%)

Concurrents

Metric Value
24-hour peak 189,311
Online at capture time 161,234
Rank in Steam’s concurrent chart 8
All-time record (our capture) 373,887

Content

Metric Value
Achievements 28
Most common achievement Getting started, 99.1%
Rarest achievement Bean, 2.5%
Interface languages 16
Of those with full audio 16
DLC none
Demo none
Screenshots on the page 7
Videos on the page 2

Time and platforms

Metric Value
Median playtime (600 reviews) 8.0 h
Mean 9.5 h
Longest in the sample 49.2 h
Price per hour at the median about $1.00
Platforms Windows only
Steam Deck Verified
ProtonDB platinum
Minimum RAM 8 GB
Disk space 1 GB

Small things that are also numbers

Metric Value
People in the studio 2
Length of the Steam description 663 characters
Most-voted player tag Multiplayer, 283 votes
Regions where we captured the price 12
Age ratings DEJUS 14, Germany 12, IGRS 18
PEGI and ESRB none

What we are not claiming

These are not sales. There is no copies-sold figure in the table, because Steam does not publish one. Reviews are not sales.

Achievement percentages drift. Steam recomputes them against every owner, continuously. Our 31 August capture can differ by tenths of a percent from a capture taken hours earlier — including from figures in our own other articles, taken the same day but at a different moment. We deliberately do not overwrite the older numbers with the newer ones: both are honest snapshots of their moment.

Concurrents are the same story. Between our capture of the official counter and our capture of the Steam chart on the same day, the gap ran to over forty thousand players. That is not an error, that is a day.

A median of 8 hours is not “8 hours to beat”. It is the median playtime among the authors of 600 reviews, and that sample is not random.

Frequently asked questions

How many reviews does How to Fish have?

43,770 as of 31 August 2026, of which 94.9 percent are positive.

How many people play at once?

The 24-hour peak is 189,311 players. The all-time record we saw is 373,887.

How many achievements are there?

28. The rarest is Bean, held by 2.5 percent of players.

How many languages does the game support?

16, and all 16 have full audio, Ukrainian included.

How long is the game?

The median across our sample of 600 reviews is 8 hours.

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