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Wretched Depths
Play as Sam and fish to your hearts content, sell fish you've caught, collect better gear, and use it to explore the depths of the mysterious lake, but be warned as no one knows what lies at the bottom. Wretched Depths is a PSX-style horror fishing game created by students at the University of Utah.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“super cool game, would not mind paying 15-30 dollars for a more fleshed out (no pun intended) game with a lot more content and story. Nice easy controls along with great visuals, story, progress and end. Short and sweet.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Very impressive for what it is. A proof of concept fleshed out just enough to call it a game. The gameplay loop, though simple, is actually very polished, the tone, visuals, and atmosphere are all on point, but the story feels a little underdeveloped.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Nice gameplay really good graphics. 8/10”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Wretched Devs Status Update
I know a lot of people by now are wondering what happened to the game and why we haven't continued working on it as promised, and you all deserve an explanation. Despite some speculation I've seen, th
Wretched Depths GDWC Hobby Award Winner
We are excited and proud to announce that Wretched Depths is the recipient of GDWC’s 2023 Summer Season Hobby Award! We would like to thank everyone for supporting our game both while in development a
Hotfix - 1.0.1
Ver. 1.0.1: Changes: - Sam now automatically equips the gift you can take from a certain NPC Bugfixes: - Fixed an issue where the credits could not be skipped Hi everyone, hope you are enjoying Wretch
Welcome to Wretched Depths 1.0!
Welcome to Wretched Depths 1.0! As mentioned in our last major update post (https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2343240/view/3705942017949640159?) Wretched Depths began as student project for the
THE RELEASE OF 1.0 AND OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
Hello there fellow fisher-people, Firstly, from the bottom of all of our hearts here on the development team, we want to say thank you all so much for the amazing response you have given us. It has ab
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Sports, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Horror · Fishing · Action-Adventure · Story Rich · Retro · 3D · Free to Play · Creature Collector · Singleplayer · Exploration · Mystery · Stylized (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1080 DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 600 MB available space