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Critical Fishing

Critical Fishing

Take part in wormkinds heroic struggle for freedom from their archnemesis. Upgrade your arsenal, tools and submarine to decimate the fish population to reach the ultimate goal: to boldly go where no worm has gone before.

Released Nov 4, 2024 Developer lazygun Platforms Windows ActionFishingShooterShoot 'Em UpCasual
View on Steam ↗ $2.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

96.1%positive51 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Critical Fishing is not really a fishing game in the traditional sense. Its a resource gathering collect-athon with shooting elements. The basic loop is split into four steps: - Dive underwater in a tiny submarine to gather fish and resources. - Launch those fish into the air…”

— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Fun and surprisingly addictive fishing shoot'em-up - literally, weirdly enough. It doesn't overstay its welcome and doesn't waste your time. That's it. If you want to have fun play it.”

— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Fun idea. Although there isn't really an ending, other than a vague goal Harpoon fish and gather resources. Then throw them in the air and use your weapons to shoot every fish you caught. These fish in turn drop money and you gain experience points. With this money you gradually…”

— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

32achievements
22.6%median completion
5.0%rarest: Full house
61.1% of players 54.5% of players 53.5% of players 46.4% of players 42.9% of players 36.2% of players 34.5% of players 32.8% of players 31.5% of players 31.5% of players 28.5% of players 27.9% of players 26.6% of players 26.4% of players 25.0% of players 24.2% of players 22.6% of players 22.3% of players 21.9% of players 20.2% of players 18.8% of players 18.3% of players 18.2% of players 16.0% of players 15.8% of players 13.9% of players 13.1% of players 10.4% of players 9.9% of players 8.9% of players 5.0% of players 5.0% of players 61.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
61.1%Distinguished — Obtain a fish crown
54.5%The 1% — Find a collectible
53.5%Invasion of privacy — Checkmark a fish
Rarest badges of honor
5.0%Full house — Complete all collections
5.0%Royal family — Obtain all fish crowns
8.9%Skilled — Unlock all perks

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Aug 05, 2026
Demo for my new game is out - The Library Assistant

Dear Fisherwomen and fishermen, the demo for my new game is out. You can check it out here:

Feb 20, 2025
Version 1.13 small fixes

There was a rare bug where purple chest could spawn out of bounds. This update prevents that and fixes your save in case you had this bug The "Skilled" achievement can now be manually checked via the

Jan 27, 2025
Small fixes

Small fixes after the 1.1 update fixed a crash related to using "X" to empty the submarine When using "X" to empty the sub it now correctly shows the resources you lost fixed a typo fixed a bug that w

Jan 25, 2025
Achievements update

v 1.1 Achievements: Added 32 steam achievements to the game If you´ve played the game before you can click on the little icon on the bottom right of the main menu to scan your savefile for achievement

Jan 08, 2025
Patch 1.093

Patch 1.093 Balancing: made a lot more buffs lockable Balancing: Besides dropping double coins, sparkly fish now also have a +2% chance to drop a Deep Sea Collectible Balancing: large and rare fish ar

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Casual, Indie
Player tagsAction · Fishing · Shooter · Shoot 'Em Up · Casual · Underwater · 2D · Funny · Gun Customization · Character Customization · Indie · Destruction (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese
Achievements32
Official sitehttps://criticalfishing.carrd.co/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 | AMD Phenom II X2 550 Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 Graphics Adapter with 1 GB VRAM Storage: 150 MB available space