What languages How to Fish reviews are written in
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How to Fish is translated into 16 languages, all 16 with full audio. We asked Steam for the review count in each of them separately, and the picture looks little like the sales map of a typical indie game.
The table: all 16 languages
| Language | Reviews | Positive | Share of all |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 17,935 | 95.9% | 41.0% |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 8,538 | 91.0% | 19.5% |
| Russian | 5,397 | 94.6% | 12.3% |
| Turkish | 2,212 | 96.0% | 5.1% |
| Spanish | 1,400 | 96.9% | 3.2% |
| Polish | 1,372 | 96.6% | 3.1% |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | 1,310 | 98.9% | 3.0% |
| German | 1,142 | 96.5% | 2.6% |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 842 | 92.4% | 1.9% |
| Korean | 810 | 94.8% | 1.9% |
| French | 766 | 97.5% | 1.8% |
| Japanese | 311 | 93.6% | 0.7% |
| Ukrainian | 262 | 92.4% | 0.6% |
| Spanish (Latin America) | 242 | 98.3% | 0.6% |
| Italian | 217 | 99.1% | 0.5% |
| Swedish | 115 | 100% | 0.3% |
Three things that jump out
Chinese is the game second language. 8,538 reviews in Simplified Chinese is nearly double the Russian count and thirty-two times the Ukrainian one. For an indie title with no Chinese publisher, that is unusually high.
Swedish is the only language at 100 percent. 115 reviews, zero negative. It is the smallest group in the table and also the developers home language: the studio profile on X lists Skovde, Sweden. Small samples reach 100 percent easily, so this says nothing reliable about localisation quality.
Chinese players are the toughest. Simplified Chinese has the lowest positive share in the table at 91.0 percent, meaning 767 negative reviews. English sits at 95.9 percent and Italian at 99.1 percent. We did not establish the reason: that would require reading the reviews, not counting them.
Ukrainian: 262 reviews
Ukrainian holds 262 reviews, 242 of them positive — 92.4 percent. That is slightly below the game average of 94.9 percent and roughly level with Traditional Chinese.
Ukrainian is on the supported list, with voice-over, exactly like the other fifteen. So this is not a case of a missing translation.
Why the sum does not match
Add up all 16 rows and you get 42,871 reviews. The game total is 43,770. The gap is 899 reviews, or 2.1 percent.
Those are reviews written in languages that are not among the 16 supported ones. Steam counts them in the overall total but gives them no row, because the filter only offers the game own interface languages. How to Fish has no Dutch, no Czech, no Arabic — and judging by this gap, reviews in such languages exist anyway.
What we deliberately do not do
We do not turn reviews into sales. The share of players who write a review at all differs by language and country, and none of our sources measures it. So the table above maps who writes, not who buys.
We did not read the reviews. Every number here is a Steam count, not our text analysis. What exactly upset those 767 Chinese players remains unestablished.
Frequently asked questions
How many reviews does How to Fish have?
43 770 as of 31 August 2026, of which 41 535 are positive. The overall score is Very Positive.
Which language produces the most reviews?
English: 17 935 reviews, or 41 percent of the total.
How many reviews are in Ukrainian?
262, of which 242 are positive. That is 0.6 percent of all reviews.
Which language is the happiest?
Swedish: 115 reviews and not a single negative one. Dazed Games is based in Skovde, Sweden.
Why do the per-language counts not add up to the total?
899 reviews are written in languages the game does not support. Steam counts them in the overall total but does not give them a row.