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Idle Fishing

Idle Fishing

Relax and catch fish in beautiful environments while your crew works for you, even offline. Hire crewmates, collect pets, sail ever-bigger boats, and uncover layer after layer of progression. Simple to start, surprisingly deep.

Released May 24, 2024 Developer AO Games Platforms Windows IdlerRelaxingCasualFishingIncremental
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

82.9%positive1,960 reviews
Recommended · 16 found this helpful

“To be perfectly honest, I don't even know why I play this game. It's just a basic idle clicker game. It's not even near the best idle clicker game. And yet, I log in every day and fish... Do I recommend this game??? I.... don't know”

— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played
Recommended · 7 found this helpful

“After 2,000+ Hours… After almost two years and more than 2,000 hours (mobile), I have unlocked all 1,215 Steam achievements in Idle Fishing. Yes, you read that correctly. Over two thousand hours. In a clicker. About fishing. If you're thinking that you'd have to be a little…”

— a player, Steam review · 1,612 hrs played
Not recommended · 3 found this helpful

“This is a hard one. The problem is: The idle part of the game is tiny compared to the active part. 12 hours offline yielded E64 silver and 333M gold. First active fish I caught yielded E64 silver and 30M gold. That's *without* the multipliers you get from active play. Seagulls…”

— a player, Steam review · 50 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

1,647all-time peak
0 1k 2k 2025 2026 1k avg · Jun 2024

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.

1215achievements
9.7%median completion
1.6%rarest: Chisel Champion
83.4% of players 53.2% of players 43.9% of players 35.7% of players 31.4% of players 29.0% of players 25.8% of players 24.5% of players 23.5% of players 22.5% of players 21.4% of players 20.7% of players 20.1% of players 19.6% of players 19.0% of players 18.1% of players 17.6% of players 16.9% of players 16.6% of players 15.9% of players 14.9% of players 13.9% of players 13.4% of players 12.8% of players 12.1% of players 11.5% of players 11.2% of players 10.6% of players 10.3% of players 10.0% of players 9.8% of players 9.4% of players 9.0% of players 8.5% of players 8.1% of players 7.8% of players 7.4% of players 7.2% of players 6.9% of players 6.7% of players 6.5% of players 6.3% of players 6.1% of players 6.0% of players 5.8% of players 5.7% of players 5.6% of players 5.5% of players 5.4% of players 5.3% of players 5.1% of players 5.0% of players 4.8% of players 4.5% of players 4.4% of players 4.1% of players 3.7% of players 3.4% of players 3.1% of players 2.6% of players 83.4% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
83.4%Achievements Tab Unlocked — Unlock the Achievements Tab
76.0%Upgrade Underway — Buy all Tier 2 Upgrades
74.0%Treasure Tycoon — Have 1e8 Silver
Rarest badges of honor
1.6%Chisel Champion — Use Chisel Tool 2.5e5 Times in Excavation
1.7%Excavation Emperor — Use Excavation Tools Total of 3e5 Times
1.8%Stone Sculptor — Use Chisel Tool 1.5e5 Times in Excavation

Latest official news

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

Sep 25, 2026
Update 3.1 - Medal Shop Expansion, Buy All Upgrades & 10 New Excavation Levels

New More Medal Shop upgrades - 30+ new items to spend your Medals on, with a few existing upgrades tuned to make room for them, so the shop lasts much longer instead of maxing out early (requested by

Sep 12, 2026
Update 3.0 - Rebirth Expansion, Crew Promotions & Rehire

New Free Codes! Update3.0 - gives 10 Eggs - expires after 31.12.26 New Rebirth Expansion New infinite upgrades in the Rebirth Shop - no cap, and each level multiplies your bonus instead of just adding

May 08, 2026
Steam Trading Cards Are Live!

New Steam Trading Cards - 11 cards, one for each fishing zone - from the Ocean to Mars Craft cards into badges and unlock emoticons and profile backgrounds 5 Badge Levels - Silver through Rebirth Ambe

Apr 29, 2026
Update 2.5.6 - Cloud Save Protection

New Cloud save corruption recovery menu If your cloud save is corrupted, you'll now see a menu to help you decide what to do instead of automatically overriding with the local save — preventing potent

Apr 22, 2026
Update 2.5.5 - Quality of Life & Excavation XP Multipliers

New Open x5 eggs at a time - requested by multiple players New seagull statistics - as requested Seagull catch streak Max seagull catch streak New in-game detailed list of what resets with rebirths an

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresCasual, Indie, RPG, Simulation
Player tagsIdler · Relaxing · Casual · Fishing · Incremental · Management · Atmospheric · Cozy · Stylized · Colorful · Simulation · Cartoony (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · In-App Purchases · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Simplif…
Achievements1215
Official sitehttps://sites.google.com/view/aogamesweb/home
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 8/8.1, 10, 11 Processor: 2.4 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space