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How Fish Is Made
Are sardines trustworthy? Are you? Do you want to be? How Fish is Made is a janky little jaunt through the world of surrealist storytelling. Now featuring a Katamari-like DLC!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“It's free and short you shouldn't be reading the reviews just play it. Read the trigger warnings though.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“I don't think I fully understood what message this game was trying to convey. That said, I really enjoyed its 3D visuals—they were beautiful and pleasant to look at. The gameplay itself is quite simple, and I feel like its meaning can be interpreted differently by each player.…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Great experience with some interesting topics you can think of it the way you want but remember as all we face the same thing , you are not alone.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
NEW LANGUAGES – FROM 1 TO SWEET 16
Ahoy, fellow sardines! We have some thrilling news from the depths of the fish machine. How Fish Is Made is now out to swimming in new linguistic waters. Whether you’re navigating the eerie corridors
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Small Patch
Fixed volume issues. Added a "Reset position" button in the pause menu. Fixed multiple spots where the player could get stuck. Improved camera behaviour when talking to NPC's. Player can no longer rea
NEW Chapter - "The Last One and Then Another"
Play an all-new free game experience to How Fish is Made - available now ! This update adds an expansion which is accessible on the main menu screen . Also please wishlist our next upcoming title Mout
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Surreal · Short · Horror · Atmospheric · Narrative · Psychological · Psychological Horror · Indie · Walking Simulator · Dark Comedy · Funny · Multiple Endings (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian * |
| Controller | Full support |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64-bit Processor: Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 750 MB available space