Hours played
How long do people play How to Fish?
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.
First 2 h
77% recommend
2–5 h
95% recommend
5–10 h
96% recommend
10–20 h
97% recommend
20–50 h
98% recommend
50–100 h
100–200 h
200–500 h
500 h and up
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Amber recommends it, red does not. 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.
Does How to Fish hold up?
It holds steady: between 95% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
The refund window
Do the first two hours of How to Fish tell you?
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.
Out of every 20 thumbs-down, 4 came while a refund was still possible and 16 after the window had closed.
Seal
How to Fish holds up
Holds up
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.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/how-to-fish#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/how-to-fish/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="How to Fish: Holds up. At least 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 50 hours played."></a>Where players stop
How far do players get in How to Fish?
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%).
Launched it
100%
Who stole my beer
Find and kill the culprit, and bring it to the lighthouse keeper
92% hold it
Dinnertime
Catch dinner for the lady in the forest
82% hold it
Vacation
Help the tourist swim on his vacation
71% hold it
The wall · 13 of every 100 get no further
Terrorizing bird
Defend the scared islanders from the terrorizing bird
58% hold it
Deadliest catch
Help the military defeat the big creature they located
46% hold it
We are so back
Finish the game
45% hold it
One token is 1 of every 100 players who launched it, standing at the last story achievement they hold. Red stopped at the wall, amber hold the last one. Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate.
Everyone's copy
4 of 35 copies here were never launched
In 35 libraries here. 4 never launched it; the typical player who did put in 5.1 h.
Name 100
How well it's remembered
Named in 0.4% of Name 100 runs, about 1 in 283: people remember it when asked to name 100 games from memory.