Dazed Games on YouTube: the trailer has fewer views than players
How to Fish has 163,914 players online and 43,629 Steam reviews. Meanwhile the official release trailer has 57,803 views. There were almost three times more people inside the game at once than that video has collected in total.
What the channel feed shows
We read the Dazed Games channel through YouTube’s public RSS feed - a plain format with no ads and no scripts that returns recent entries with dates and counters. Here is what it holds as of August 31, 2026:
| Date | Video | Views |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-13 | How to Fish - Release Date Trailer | 57,803 |
| 2025-11-24 | knife devlog | 4,682 |
| 2025-11-04 | devlog | 3,215 |
| 2025-10-28 | seagull devlog | 2,355 |
| 2025-10-08 | melee devlog | 2,113 |
| 2025-09-29 | grilling devlog | 2,849 |
| 2025-09-25 | casino devlog | 1,957 |
| 2025-09-19 | devlog | 2,792 |
| 2025-09-11 | devlog | 2,349 |
| 2025-09-10 | devlog | 2,452 |
| 2025-09-08 | devlog | 1,455 |
| 2025-09-04 | need more good suggestions please | 1,563 |
| 2025-09-01 | devlog | 1,878 |
| 2025-08-27 | devlog | 1,632 |
| 2025-08-26 | added a seahorse | 1,725 |
All 15 entries add up to 90,820 views. Of those, 57,803 belong to a single trailer - that is 63.6%. The remaining 14 devlogs share 33,017 between them, roughly 2,350 each.
A nine-month silence
Between November 24, 2025 and August 13, 2026 the feed contains nothing at all. That is not a truncation artifact: the feed returns the newest videos, and the oldest one in it is dated August 26, 2025. So everything published after that date is present - and the gap is real.
Nine months of silence, then straight to a release-date trailer. It looks like the studio simply stopped showing the process and sat down to finish the game.
What it means
The simplest conclusion: the game did not take off from YouTube. Ninety thousand views across the whole channel in a year is less than the number of people who were inside the game at once on a single day. The growth came from somewhere else: the Steam page, streams, and friends dragging each other into eight-player co-op.
What we are not claiming
We do not know how many videos the channel has in total. The RSS feed caps at 15 entries and we received exactly 15, which means older uploads may sit beyond the cutoff. Saying the channel has 15 videos would be false; the correct statement is that the feed shows 15 entries.
We also did not measure the subscriber count, and we did not count views on other people’s videos about the game - streamers and reviewers are not in these numbers at all.
Frequently asked questions
How many views does the How to Fish trailer have?
57,803 views as of August 31, 2026. The trailer went up on August 13, 2026, a week before the game shipped.
Why is that low?
On the same day 163,914 people were playing the game at once. Concurrent players outnumber the trailer's lifetime views almost three to one.
Did the developer post devlogs?
Yes, from August to November 2025 the channel published short devlogs. Then came a pause until August 2026.
How many videos does the channel have in total?
Not established. The public RSS feed returns at most 15 of the newest entries, and that is exactly how many we got - so the full list may well be cut off.
Then where did people find the game?
We did not measure that. But the 14 devlogs together drew about 33 thousand views, which is far too little to explain 43,629 Steam reviews.