How to Fish press: 12 posts, only two from outlets
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We pulled How to Fish’s official news feed through the Steam Web API and counted who actually wrote about the game. We asked for up to 30 entries and the feed returned 12 — so this is its entire history, not a sample.
All 12 entries in the feed
| Date | Publisher | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2026 | Dazed Games | Release announcement |
| 21 August 2026 | Dazed Games | Patch 1.0.4 |
| 22 August 2026 | Dazed Games | Patch 1.0.5 |
| 23 August 2026 | Dazed Games | Patch 1.0.6 |
| 23 August 2026 | Dazed Games | The one-million-players announcement |
| 24 August 2026 | Dazed Games | Patch 1.0.8 |
| 24 August 2026 | Dazed Games | Patch 1.0.9 |
| 24 August 2026 | GamingOnLinux | A piece about the game |
| 24 August 2026 | Rock, Paper, Shotgun | A piece about the game |
| 25 August 2026 | SteamDB | Steam weekly top sellers |
| 26 August 2026 | SteamDB | A note on the peak player count |
| 27 August 2026 | Dazed Games | Patch 1.0.10 and a fan-art channel |
The developer’s own voice is two thirds of the feed
8 of the 12 entries (66.7 %) were written by Dazed Games themselves. Another 2 are automated SteamDB summaries, and only 2 are games-press pieces: GamingOnLinux and Rock, Paper, Shotgun, both on 24 August.
Read that correctly. A Steam news feed mixes the developer’s own posts with external articles Valve pulls in from partner sites. GamingOnLinux or Rock, Paper, Shotgun appearing in the feed does not mean the studio wrote them — that is Valve’s aggregation.
The whole feed fits into eight days
The first entry is 20 August 2026, the last is 27 August 2026. That is 8 calendar days, and every single one of them has at least one entry — there are no empty days inside the window.
After 27 August 2026, though, the feed goes quiet: as of 31 August 2026 there have been no new entries for 4 days running. That is the longest gap in the feed’s history, and it is ongoing.
What this means for a reader
If you are hunting for news about this game, almost all of it is the studio’s own patch notes. Two press pieces in a single day is not enough to call it a wave of coverage, and a SteamDB summary is automation, not editorial writing.
Steam shows no aggregate press score on the game’s page: the Metacritic field in the page data is empty as of 31 August 2026.
What we are not claiming
This is the Steam feed, not a survey of the press. Anything an outlet published outside Valve’s partner aggregation does not appear in this table. We did not count those, and we are not claiming there are none.
We do not retell the outlets’ articles. This piece reports the fact of publication, the date and the source; read the articles themselves through the links at the end — they belong to their authors.
A quiet feed is not a quiet studio. The developers run a Discord and social accounts, and no Steam post does not mean no work on the game.
This is a single day’s snapshot. The feed was read on 31 August 2026. A new post could appear any minute after that.
Frequently asked questions
How many How to Fish news posts are there on Steam?
The feed holds exactly 12 entries in total, from 20 August to 27 August 2026.
Who writes the news about this game?
Mostly the studio itself: 8 of 12 entries (66.7 %) are Dazed Games posts. Another 2 are SteamDB summaries.
Which outlets covered How to Fish?
The Steam feed carries two press pieces: GamingOnLinux and Rock, Paper, Shotgun, both on 24 August 2026.
Why has there been no news for a while?
The last feed entry is 27 August. As of 31 August 2026 the gap has run 4 days; the studio has not explained it.
What is How to Fish's Metacritic score?
There is none on the Steam page: the Metacritic field in the page data is empty as of 31 August 2026.