How to Report a Bug in How to Fish: Three Channels
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In the first week after release the developers shipped six sets of patch notes, and nearly every one of them closed something players had complained about. Reports genuinely get read here — the only trick is sending them to the right place.
Three channels, and they are not interchangeable
| What you have | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| A bug, a crash, a broken save | the bug-report forum on the studio Discord |
| An idea or a wish | the separate suggestions channel on that same Discord |
| A purchase, key or payment question | [email protected] from the Steam page |
Splitting bugs from suggestions is not our invention — it is written into the official FAQ. A suggestion dropped into the bug forum will most likely just get lost among the reports.
What to put in the report
The single most useful thing you can add is the version number. Patch
1.0.10 specifically taught the game to write its version into player.log;
Unity keeps those logs in the AppData\LocalLow folder of your Windows
profile, inside a subfolder named after the developer and the game. Attach
that file and the developer sees both the build and what happened before the
crash.
Next in usefulness:
- Single-player or co-op. Many of the fixed bugs were lobby-specific: a black screen on join, an endless boss timer, griefers ending the run for everyone.
- Your resolution. One of the 1.0.5 bugs only appeared at 4K — skins disappeared inside the slot machines.
- Whether the server name had special characters. Those were what broke the save file before patch 1.0.4.
Check whether it is already fixed
A large share of the first-week complaints is already closed:
- saves. Patch 1.0.6 taught the game to validate the file before loading and to stop writing a save on a crash. The once-a-minute autosave stayed.
- Steam connection. Patch 1.0.9 added connection diagnostics right in the main menu — if the game cannot see the servers, it now says so.
- chat. Patch 1.0.10 removed the rich text that griefers were abusing.
One honest caveat: in the 1.0.9 notes the developers wrote about corrupted save files carefully — that they hope to fix them. So there is still no guarantee that an already-broken save will come back.
What not to expect from the studio
The same FAQ has three answers that save everyone time:
- no free keys for curators, streamers or YouTubers;
- the studio is not hiring and takes no interns;
- they are not recruiting playtesters either.
Sending pitches of that kind is pointless — the answer is already published.
Frequently asked questions
Where do you report a bug in How to Fish?
The official FAQ asks players to post bug reports in the dedicated bug-report forum on the studio Discord server.
Where do you suggest ideas for the game?
There is a separate suggestions channel on the same Discord, and the developers ask you not to mix it with bug reports.
Is there a support email?
Yes, the Steam page lists [email protected]. For bugs, though, the studio explicitly points to Discord.
How do you find the game version for a report?
Since patch 1.0.10 the version number is written into player.log, the file the game keeps in the AppData\LocalLow folder of your Windows profile.