Is How to Fish worth buying?

It's $7.99 full price now that the 38% launch discount has ended, it's a month old, and it's still sitting at Overwhelmingly Positive — around 96% of 1,600+ reviews recommend it. For the price of a coffee, this is about as safe a "yes" as launch week offers. The real question is who you'll play it with.

The numbers so far

As of August 21, How to Fish has 1,613 Steam reviews — 1,549 positive, 64 negative — for an Overwhelmingly Positive rating. A 96% approval rate on day one for a physics-jank co-op game is about as unanimous as Steam gets. The reviews read like people who had a genuinely great night with friends and wanted to say so.

The case for buying now

• The price is nothing. $7.99 standard — it was $4.95 during the launch window, which has since closed. Even a single bad night of co-op is worth that.
• The discount was a launch price. Intro pricing ended, so $7.99 is the number today.
• It's a co-op game you can actually get friends into. The premise (crash a boat, catch weird fish, gamble the proceeds) is a much easier sell to a group chat than another serious sim.
• Review consensus is a near-landslide. 96% positive with 1,600+ reviews is real, not a small-sample fluke.

The case for waiting

• It's one day old — expect a patch or two for edge cases.
• If you're strictly solo and don't enjoy silly games, its charm is diluted. The loop still works alone, but the game is built for noise.