The newest 800 How to Fish reviews: 94.8% positive
A Steam score is an all-time average. It moves slowly: 43,770 older reviews outweigh a few hundred new ones. So we pulled the 800 most recent reviews and counted them on their own.
The result
| Metric | Newest 800 | All reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Positive | 758 (94.8%) | 41,535 (94.9%) |
| Negative | 42 (5.2%) | 2,235 (5.1%) |
| Total in slice | 800 | 43,770 |
The difference is 0.1 percentage points. Which means roughly the same share of players is enjoying the game now as in the first days after release.
Pace: how long those 800 reviews took
The newest review in the sample was written on 31 August at 16:07 UTC, the oldest at 08:59 UTC the same day. So 800 reviews arrived in 7 hours and 8 minutes.
That works out to roughly 2,688 reviews per day.
For comparison: dividing all 43,770 reviews by the 11 days since release gives 3,979 per day. The current pace is below that average — which is normal, because the average includes the launch spike.
What it means
The game is still growing. 2,688 reviews a day, 11 days after release, is a very high flow. For comparison, WEBFISHING — the closest highly rated game in the genre — averages about 102 reviews a day across its whole life.
Patches have not spoiled the impression. Several patches have shipped since release, the latest being 1.0.10. If one of them had broken the game, the fresh slice would show a dip against the all-time score. There is no dip.
What we are not claiming
800 reviews is not every recent review. It is as many as we pulled in one pass. Steam gives no guarantee that these are exactly the last 800 in chronological order with no gaps.
The per-day pace is extrapolated from a seven-hour window. If activity is uneven across the day — and it almost certainly is, since players sit in different time zones — the real daily figure will differ.
We did not read these reviews. We only counted the recommended / not recommended flag. What the 42 negative reviews in this slice actually say, we did not establish.
Frequently asked questions
What is the How to Fish score right now?
Across the 800 newest reviews, 94.8 percent positive. The all-time score across all 43,770 reviews is 94.9 percent.
Is the score dropping?
No. The gap between the fresh slice and the all-time score is one tenth of a percent, well inside the noise of a sample this size.
How many reviews arrive per day?
About 2,688. Those 800 reviews came in over 7 hours and 8 minutes.
When was this measured?
31 August 2026. The newest review in the sample is stamped 16:07 UTC, the oldest 08:59 UTC the same day.