Out of Hand: Deluxe - the first game by the How to Fish devs
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The How to Fish store page lists Dazed Games as both developer and publisher. We checked what else that studio has on Steam and found exactly one game.
Out of Hand: Deluxe, June 2025
| Metric | Out of Hand: Deluxe | How to Fish |
|---|---|---|
| Release | June 19, 2025 | August 20, 2026 |
| Price | $4.99 | $7.99 |
| Achievements | 19 | 28 |
| Steam reviews | 45 | 43,629 |
| Platforms | Windows | Windows |
| Publisher | Dazed Games | Dazed Games |
The review gap is roughly 970 times. Same studio, same self-publishing approach, barely a year apart - and a completely different outcome.
What the game is
The Steam description calls it a fast paced action party game with a unique controllable physics based hand and a physics based dodge roll. 2 to 8 players fight in short rounds on islands filled with different items until one is left standing.
Three things are instantly recognisable: eight players, islands and physics. All of it carried over into How to Fish almost unchanged - only the frame around it is different.
Out of Hand has features How to Fish does not
Comparing the Steam feature lists produces an unexpected result. The older, cheaper, far less popular game has:
- Steam Cloud - cloud saves;
- Remote Play Together - playing together online from one copy;
- Shared/Split Screen - same-screen mode;
- Stats - Steam statistics.
How to Fish has none of those four. So this is not a case of a studio that cannot do it - it did exactly this before. In the new game those features are simply not wired up.
How long each one took
The studio devlog mentions that Out of Hand took two years before its June 2025 release. The first public post about the fishing game is dated August 15, 2025 - less than two months after the previous game shipped.
The arithmetic is blunt: two years of work produced 45 reviews, the next year produced 43,000. We do not know why, and we are not going to invent an explanation. The only obvious part is that the same two people made both.
What we are not claiming
We do not know the sales or the peak player count of Out of Hand: Deluxe - Steam does not surface those for a game with such a small audience. Review count is not purchase count; it is simply the only public number the two games can be compared on.
Frequently asked questions
Does Dazed Games have other games?
One: Out of Hand: Deluxe. It launched on Steam on June 19, 2025, a year and two months before How to Fish.
How much does Out of Hand: Deluxe cost?
$4.99 on Steam, cheaper than How to Fish at $7.99.
What kind of game is it?
A fast paced physics party game: 2 to 8 players fight on islands in short rounds until one is left standing.
How popular is it?
45 reviews against 43,629 for How to Fish as of August 31, 2026 - a gap of roughly 970 times.