How to Fish — complete guide
A $4.95 four-player physics fishing game where you get shipwrecked, drink, gamble, and slowly work your way home. This site covers the progression route, every boss trigger, the rod and bait tables, co-op answers and the launch fixes.
Islands mapped
Route from the shipwreck to the final encounter.
Boss triggers
The bait or item that spawns each fight.
Bait & lure pools
Which lure reaches which fish.
Achievements
Including the one-hour completion run.
Where do you want to go?
Island walkthrough
The full route, island by island.
Boss list
What triggers it, and where.
Bait & lures
Hot Dog, Beginner, Professional, Coconut, Leech.
Weapons
Rod, assault rifle, sniper, bow.
Guides
Beginner route, co-op, money, one-hour run.
Fixes
Error 51, black screen, cloud saves, lobbies.
What the game actually is
These numbers come straight from Steam's own API, read at 2026-10-03T16:13:45.589Z (UTC). Reviews on this game climb fast, so that timestamp is the moment we looked.
- Developer
- Dazed Games — https://dazed.games/
- Released
- Aug 20, 2026
- Price
- $4.95
- Players
- 1–4 (online co-op)
- Engine
- Unity
- Steam reviews
- 74,647 across all languages — 95.1% positive (Overwhelmingly Positive)
- English reviews only
- 30,240 — a subset of the figure above, not the total. Steam's API returns this number when you ask for English only, and it is easy to mistake for the total.
- Playing right now
- 69,454 (chart #25, was #46 the week before)
- Save files
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Dazed Games\How to Fish\Saves\*.txt
Recent patches
| Date | Update | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | HOW TO FISH DRIP GAR + FISHERMAN PLUSH | news |
| 2026-09-29 | TINY PATCH 1.1.3 | update |
| 2026-09-29 | SMALL BUGFIXING PATCH 1.1.2 | update |
| 2026-09-29 | The truly hilarious co-op game How to Fish gets a first content update | update |
| 2026-09-28 | THE ISLET UPDATE 1.1.0 | update |
| 2026-09-22 | Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 15 Sep — 22 September 2026 | news |
| 2026-09-15 | Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 8 Sep — 15 September 2026 | news |
| 2026-09-08 | Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 1 Sep — 8 September 2026 | news |
| 2026-09-04 | STEAM CLOUD SUPPORT & PATCH 1.0.12 | update |
| 2026-09-01 | STEAM DECK VERIFIED, GEFORCE NOW & PATCH 1.0.11 | update |
| 2026-09-01 | Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 25 Aug — 1 September 2026 | news |
| 2026-08-27 | FANART & PATCH 1.0.10 | update |
How this site is different
Several sites already cover this game and they disagree with each other — you will find creature counts of 45, 49 and 54 in different places. We do not repeat numbers we have not checked. Everything here is labelled with where it came from: Steam's own API for hard facts, and Steam Community guides where we report what players found. See how we source things.