Catch, Kill & Sell
Hook strange creatures out of the water, take them down, and sell everything you catch.
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How to Fish
How to Fish is a chaotic physics-based fishing action game where you catch, fight, sell, and upgrade your way home. Play solo or join a crew across dangerous islands, bosses, weapons, rare fish, and ridiculous trick shots.
Launched Aug 20, 2026Updated Aug 22, 20268-Player Lobbies7.5K+ User Reviews28 Steam Achievements
Game Introduction
What is How to Fish?
How to Fish is a physics-based fishing action game from Dazed Games for Windows PC via Steam. After crashing onto a mysterious island, players must learn to fish, earn money, improve their equipment, and find a way home.
The game combines fishing, creature combat, quests, island progression, rare fish collection, cooking, gambling, and trick shots. It supports solo play and online co-op, making it suitable for both focused progression and chaotic sessions with friends.
Explore All Guides →DeveloperDazed Games
PlatformWindows PC via Steam
GenreAction · Casual · Indie · Simulation
Lobby SizeUp to 8 players
Steam Reviews7.5K+ · 95% positive
Steam Achievements28
Supported Languages16
The loop that gets you home
Core Gameplay
Upgrade From Nothing
You wash ashore without any gear or weapons, so every coin you earn goes toward better equipment.
Quests, Bosses & Islands
Complete quests and beat island bosses — starting with the Giant Spider Crab — to unlock islands with more dangerous creatures and better gear.
Rare Fish Collection
Try to collect the rare variant of all the different fish hiding across the islands.
Trick Shots
Land absurd trick shots for bonus money on top of your sales.
Gamble It All Away
Stake your winnings for even more money — it is all fish and in-game cash, never real money.
Start Here
Your How to Fish Journey
Beginner Guide
Learn the complete opening loop: catch creatures, sell your haul, buy your first gear, and survive the first island.
Make Money Fast
Find the best early ways to earn cash through fishing, cooking, trick shots, selling, and gambling.
Island & Boss Progression
Follow quests, prepare the right bait and weapons, defeat bosses, and unlock the next island without getting stuck.
Fish, Weapons & Achievements
Track rare fish variants, useful equipment, combat tools, trick-shot challenges, and all Steam achievements.
From the wiki
Guides, bosses, fixes & databases
Achievements
Achievement guides for How to Fish, including unlock conditions, missable flags and completion routes.
Boss Guides
How to trigger and beat every boss in How to Fish, from the Giant Spider Crab to the Mutated Bowhead Whale, with failure fixes and loadout advice.
Guides
Beginner walkthroughs, wiki overviews, speedrunning, economy and modding guides for How to Fish, written from verified community and official sources.
Island Progression
How many islands, unlock requirements and progression routes in How to Fish, island by island.
Multiplayer
Player count, crossplay, lobby size, mods for more players and other co-op facts for How to Fish.
Troubleshooting
Fixes and explanations for How to Fish technical problems: saves, black screens, launch errors and missing items.
How To Fish Game Steam
Quick answer: How to Fish is a $7.99 PC-only co-op fishing game on Steam, released by Dazed Games on August 20, 2026.
How To Fish Platforms
Quick answer: How to Fish is a Windows PC game sold on Steam.
How To Fish Player Count
Quick answer: At our latest check on August 29, 2026, How to Fish was running around 125,000–136,000 concurrent players — good for roughly 7th–8th place among all Steam g…
Redemption Codes
No official redemption-code system found
No official How to Fish redemption-code system was confirmed in the researched official sources. This wiki does not publish invented codes.
Community Wiki
Ready to Master How to Fish?
From your first catch to island bosses and rare fish collections, the community wiki gives you the fastest route through every major part of How to Fish.