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2026 · Online Co-Op · Co-op · Fishing

How long isHow to Fish?

by Dazed Games

6 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 4 hours and 9.5 hours

Does How to Fish hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 50 hours played.

Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.

Do the first two hours of How to Fish tell you?

In the first two hours77%recommend it

After that96%recommend it

5 in 100 said no: 4 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 6 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4 hours and 9.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 77,600 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 95% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 77% of those recommend it. After the window, 96% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 79% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4.5 hours in.

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When would you get there?

6days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 6 hours on Thursday, November 19.

Half of its reviewers had played between 4 and 9.5 hours: Nov 17 to Nov 23 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in How to Fish?

The filter

Terrorizing bird

13 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Vacation and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Who stole my beerFind and kill the culprit, and bring it to the lighthouse keeper−892% hold it
  3. DinnertimeCatch dinner for the lady in the forest−1082% hold it
  4. Vacation−1171% hold it
  5. Terrorizing birdFiltered −1358% hold it
  6. Deadliest catchHelp the military defeat the big creature they located−1246% hold it
  7. We are so backFinish the game−145% hold it
How this is counted

92% of the players who launched How to Fish hold Who stole my beer, its first story achievement on Steam, and 45% hold We are so back, its last. The steepest drop comes between Vacation (71%) and Terrorizing bird (58%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is How to Fish worth it?

Is How to Fish worth it? Yes.

  • Good value

    1.6× the hours of a typical simulation game, for the same money

  • Loved

    96% recommend it after the refund windowmost simulation games: 89%

  • Gets played

    94% of owners here have played itmost simulation games: 67%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $7.99, the typical player's 6 hours come to $1.33 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.33 an hour, How to Fish is cheaper per hour than 1486 of 1990 simulation games here: the typical one of 1990 simulation games here charges $2.08, so the same $7.99 buys 1.6× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (simulation games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play How to Fish today?

On PC

Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.

  1. todayPC2026
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines How to Fish came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like How to Fish?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like How to Fish, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long How to Fish would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

@ur-disproven holds this page

  1. 1st@ur-disproven11 h
  2. 2nd@xlaoztuontwitch9.7 h
  3. 3rd@definecoffee7.7 h
  4. 4th@mr-v7.6 h
  5. 5th@gigant7.1 h
  6. 6th@artorian6.8 h
  7. 7th@danonyyy6.7 h
  8. 8th@astro5.8 h

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with How to Fish?

  • 1 in 227

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like How to Fish

  1. 1

    GONE Fishing

    How to Fish, but a horror game

    Loved · 91%Games like GONE Fishing

  2. 2

    Ultimate Fishing Simulator

    How to Fish, but a hobby sim, and a sports game

    Liked · 89%Games like Ultimate Fishing Simulator

  3. 3

    Blood and Bacon

    How to Fish, but funny, and gorier

    Loved · 95%Games like Blood and Bacon

  4. 4

    BIGFOOT

    How to Fish, but a survival game, and horror

    Liked · 82%Games like BIGFOOT

  5. 5

    WEBFISHING

    How to Fish, but a hobby sim, and cute

    Loved · 97%Games like WEBFISHING

  6. 6

    Fishing Planet

    How to Fish, but free to play, and three times the hours

    Liked · 87%Games like Fishing Planet

All 30 games like How to Fish, and which you already own
How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from How to Fish: a kind of game it is that How to Fish is not, a feature its tags carry that How to Fish's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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