How to Fish vs DREDGE: 11 days against 1250, and two genres
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Both games carry the Fishing tag on Steam — and that is where the similarity ends. DREDGE is a single-player horror game about fishing; How to Fish is a co-op action game where you shoot the fish. The point of comparing them is not to pick a winner but to show how different two games under one tag can be.
The table
| Metric | How to Fish | DREDGE |
|---|---|---|
| Release | 20 August 2026 | 30 March 2023 |
| Days on sale as of 31 Aug 2026 | 11 | 1250 |
| Developer | Dazed Games | Black Salt Games |
| Steam price (Ukraine region) | 159 UAH, no discount | 219 UAH now, 549 UAH base (−60%) |
| Platforms | Windows | Windows, macOS |
| Co-op | up to 8 players online | none, single-player only |
| Achievements | 28 | 60 |
| Total reviews | 43 902 | 37 541 |
| Positive share | 94.9% | 96.2% |
| Steam label | Very Positive | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Steam Cloud | no | yes |
| Trading cards | no | yes |
More reviews in 11 days than in 1 250
This is the headline number. How to Fish collected 43 902 reviews in 11 days; DREDGE has 37 541 in 1 250 days. Per day that is 3991 against 30 — How to Fish is currently running roughly 133 times faster.
The rate comparison is only honest as a snapshot: DREDGE’s launch spike is long over, while How to Fish is still inside its own. A year from now these numbers will look different, and we build no forecast on them.
Fewer reviews, better badge
DREDGE has fewer reviews and the better label: Overwhelmingly Positive against Very Positive for How to Fish. The reason is pure arithmetic — 96.2% against 94.9%.
We previously measured where the boundary between those labels sits, and it is bracketed between 94.90% and 95.57%. How to Fish falls under 0.7 points short of it. More than that: an English-speaking buyer already sees Overwhelmingly Positive on How to Fish, because the score for their language is higher than the global one.
Price: a wider gap than it looks
At base price DREDGE costs 3.45 times more than How to Fish (549 UAH against 159 UAH). With the −60% discount the gap narrows to 1.38 times (219 UAH). But the discount is temporary, while 159 UAH is How to Fish’s full price with no sale at all.
Where they do not overlap at all
DREDGE has no multiplayer: its feature list contains only Single-player. How to Fish has co-op for up to eight, and that is exactly what sits at the top of its user tags (Multiplayer, Online Co-Op). So they are not alternatives: if you want to play with friends, DREDGE cannot do it in principle, and if you want a solo atmospheric game, How to Fish is the wrong one.
DREDGE, in turn, has things How to Fish does not: macOS, Steam Cloud, trading cards, difficulty settings out of the box and twice the achievements.
What we are not claiming
The DREDGE figures were read on 31 August 2026 from Steam’s public review summary (purchase_type=all). One of our older articles carries a different number — 56,630 reviews at 95.8%. We have not reconciled those two readings and rely here only on the fresh one. Separately: the Steam catalogue shows a third number for DREDGE, 32,409 — that is the English-language, Steam-purchase-only slice, not the overall total.
We did not compare the quality of the games and gave no scores. Everything above is what the store pages show.
Frequently asked questions
Which is better, How to Fish or DREDGE?
They are different genres. DREDGE is single-player, How to Fish is co-op for up to 8. The Fishing tag is all they share.
Does DREDGE have co-op?
No. Its Steam feature list contains only Single-player.
Which game is cheaper?
How to Fish at 159 UAH with no discount, against a 549 UAH base price for DREDGE. DREDGE currently sells at 219 UAH with a 60% cut.
Why does DREDGE have the better Steam label?
Its positive share is higher. By our measurement the Very Positive to Overwhelmingly Positive boundary sits between 94.90% and 95.57%.
How many achievements does each game have?
How to Fish has 28, DREDGE has 60.