How to Fish

How to Fish

Independent co-op game from Dazed Games combining fishing, weapons, physics, bosses and progression across multiple islands.

Developer
Dazed Games
Publisher
Dazed Games
Release
Platforms
Windows PC
Genres
Action, Casual, Simulation, Co-op

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Our review

How to Fish review: the five-dollar “friendslop” is becoming a genre of its own

By Vever

How to Fish belongs to a generation of games whose real main menu almost exists on Discord. Their strength is not keeping one player occupied every day for years, but providing a rule anyone can understand and letting a group destroy it together. Selling one million copies in two days and passing 370,000 concurrent players shows how commercially powerful that formula has become. Dazed Games is smart enough to give the joke sufficient progression to survive beyond the first viral clip. How to Fish is short, shallow and dramatically weaker alone. Those limitations are also part of what makes it so easy for a group to adopt.

PROS

Immediately legible comic identity
Players generate most of the game's best stories
Very low financial barrier for a group

CONS

The “friendslop” label also captures its disposable quality
Little authored narrative beyond emergent anecdotes