How to Fish Achievements
How To Fish Achievement Guide
How to Fish has 28 achievements on Steam — that count is official, straight from the store page's global achievements section. There is no official strategy list from Dazed Games, so hunters work from three tools: Steam's global achievements page, SteamDB's completion-rate stats, and the community guides built around the trickier unlocks like Bean. This guide walks through what each tool does and what we could and could not verify.
The Confirmed Basics
The official count is 28 achievements, and the fan wiki runs a 28-achievement tracker that matches it. Steam's global achievements page shows every achievement with the percentage of players who have unlocked it. That rarity data is the fastest way to spot which achievements are actually hard versus just slow.
SteamDB's stats page for the game lists the same achievements with completion rates and trends over time. Because it tracks changes, you can see whether an achievement's rate jumped after a patch. Between the two pages, you can triage an entire hunt in minutes.
The Known Community Achievement Guides
The Steam community guides section hosts dedicated achievement walkthroughs for this game. The ones surfaced in our research include the Bean Achievement guide, the Bean 1 hour Achievement guide, and the Everyone's dream Achievement guide. The "Bean 1 hour" name tells you the shape of that challenge: a run bounded by one hour of play.
What we did not collect is the full unlock text for each of those guides, so treat their step-by-step details as unconfirmed until you open them on Steam. The guides are free to read in the game's community hub. Start there before attempting any time-based achievement blind.
Achievements You Will Hit Naturally
A full-playthrough video by Skoottie shows the natural unlock pattern: tutorial completion, early money-making, gear purchases, boss kills, and gambling sessions all trigger achievements as you play. In other words, a normal run through the five islands covers a large share of the list without any grinding. The leftovers are the deliberate challenges.
The fan wiki's guide index also names a "360 no scope" trick-shot entry, which points to at least one skill-based challenge in the game. Trick shots also earn extra money, so chasing that achievement doubles as income practice. Check the wiki entry for the exact trigger conditions.
How to Check Your Progress
Open Steam's global achievements page for How to Fish and compare it against your in-game profile to see what you are missing. SteamDB then tells you how rare each remaining unlock is, which is how you decide the order of attack. Community guides cover the specific ones that confuse people.
For time-based achievements like the Bean 1 hour challenge, read the community guide's route before you start the timer. Patch changes have affected progression speed in past updates, so an old route may no longer fit the hour. Always match the guide's patch version to yours.
What We Could Not Verify
No source we collected lists all 28 achievement names with their exact unlock conditions, so we will not invent them here. The confirmed facts are the count of 28, the existence of the named community guides above, and the stats pages that track rarity. Everything beyond that is unconfirmed pending an official or community full list.
This is also why the SteamDB and wiki links below matter more than usual. They are live pages that update as the community documents each unlock. Bookmark them and re-check after every patch.
How Rarity Data Actually Works
Steam's global achievements page shows a completion percentage next to each of the 28 achievements, computed across every player. SteamDB reproduces that data and adds trend context, so you can watch an achievement's rate climb after a patch or a popular guide. A low percentage plus high confusion is the signature of a genuinely hard unlock.
Use the two pages as a triage pair. Steam tells you what you are missing; SteamDB tells you which missing achievements are rare versus merely unattempted. Rare ones deserve a guide open on the second monitor.
The Bean Challenge Family
The named community guides cluster around Bean: the Bean Achievement guide and the Bean 1 hour Achievement guide. The one-hour variant is effectively the game's casual speedrun category, and the Steam guide "Bean 1.0.5 Guide (Solo)" exists specifically to route it. Time-boxed challenges like this are where most achievement hunters start.
The Everyone's dream guide covers the other named standout. We did not collect the unlock conditions for either family in this research pass, so the specifics are unconfirmed until you read them on Steam. What is confirmed is that dedicated write-ups exist in the community hub.
Hunting in Co-op Changes the Math
Patch 1.0.4's 8-player lobbies turn several achievement types into group activities: boss kills, big hauls, and gambling sessions can all happen with a crew accelerating them. The 100% playthrough video we reviewed shows achievements firing steadily across normal play — tutorial steps, money milestones, bosses, and the casino. Bring friends for the grindy tiers.
Time-boxed achievements are the exception — a one-hour challenge is easiest to control solo, where route decisions are yours alone. Split your hunt accordingly: crew for volume, solo for precision. Both modes count toward the same 28.
Re-Check After Every Patch
Launch-window patches have already touched difficulty and progression, and achievement conditions can shift with them. A guide titled for 1.0.5 may describe behavior that a later patch no longer matches. The date labels the fan wiki uses exist for exactly this reason.
Make the announcements page part of your hunting routine. After each patch, skim it for changes, then skim the wiki's achievement tracker. Ten minutes of checking saves hours of chasing a changed condition.
The 100% Route in Practice
The 100% playthrough video by Skoottie shows what a completionist run actually looks like: a long, single-session journey through the tutorial, the money loop, gear purchases, the bosses, and the casino, with achievements popping along the way. Nothing in that structure suggests a separate achievement endgame hidden behind the main content. The list and the game are largely the same journey.
That has a practical implication for planners: route your normal island progression first, and let achievements accumulate. Tackle the deliberate challenges — the Bean family, skill shots like the wiki's 360 no scope entry — once the map is familiar. Completion rates on SteamDB will tell you which ones most players leave behind.