8 Fishing Games Like How to Fish, Solo or With Friends

GONE Fishing is the closest match here: a co-op fishing game for one to eight players, with gambling, explosions and something nasty in the water. An ancient beast lives in the lake, and your group has to sacrifice a set amount of fish to it every day or become the next offering.

You sell the extra fish to traders for better gear, grill or smoke your catch, bet it in the gambling pit and keep clear of territorial beasts and ambushing predators around the map. There are over 100 species and dozens of live baits to use. It was in Early Access from June 2025, more than a year before How to Fish, and version 1.0 came out on October 20, 2026.

In WEBFISHING the fishing is a reason to hang out. Steam calls it a chatroom-focused fishing game, built around a shared camp where you meet friends and strangers, with nearly 100 creatures to catch, from the smallest snail to the biggest shark, and a journal to fill.

Money buys new baits, lures and rods, plus plenty of cosmetics, and the camp is full of toys: a guitar you can actually play, chalk to draw with, and your friends to punch. Where How to Fish hands you guns and bosses, the store page sums WEBFISHING up as relaxing, hanging out, making friends and catching fish.

Up to six players can fish together in Fishing Grind, a free first-person game in Early Access since October 2024. You fish across wilderness spots, starting with almost nothing and slowly building a collection of rods, lures and hooks.

Most spots are fairly safe, but some have bears, sharks and even other people to deal with. The developers say a less realistic approach turned out to be more fun, and they simplified some mechanics so it would be easier to pick up.

Voodoo Fishin' puts one to six players in a haunted swamp with proximity voice chat. Every fish your crew sells fills a shared Dock Quota, and hitting it unlocks upgrades for the whole dock, like bigger coolers and sprint and jump boosts.

The Fish Monger pays by the pound, and the money goes into better bait, reels and rods. The swamp hunts back, though: if you die out there, it keeps your catch and the tackle you had on. Its recent Steam reviews are Mixed.

Catch, fight, sell, repeat: FISH FEAR ME is a top-down roguelite in the style of Vampire Survivors where you fish up your enemies, beat them and sell their bones. The cash and forbidden knowledge you earn pay for boat upgrades, new weapons and tools and new abilities, and each region has its own fish and sea-monster bounties to hunt.

After seven days on the water the Leviathan, a cosmic force of death, comes to consume you, but a billion-dollar cosmic debt keeps bringing you back a little stronger each run. It's single-player only, and in August 2026 the developer said it is unlikely to get further content updates.

Cat Goes Fishing makes the same climb as How to Fish in 2D. You start on an island with a basic rod and work your way up to a radar-wielding master fisher-cat out at sea, with quests that earn cash for better rods, rod upgrades and boats.

Every fish has its own behavior to learn, and rare hats change how the game plays. It's single-player and much calmer, but the climb from one basic rod to a boat and better gear is very close.

DAVE THE DIVER swaps the rod for a harpoon. By day you dive into the ever-changing Blue Hole and catch fish and other creatures with a harpoon and other weapons, and by night you run a sushi restaurant that turns the catch into profit.

The money and materials go into better gear for the dangers below, and running out of oxygen means leaving your haul behind. There's no co-op, but there are quirky characters, minigames and side quests.

Alone at the helm of a fishing trawler, you work a remote archipelago in DREDGE, a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. You sell your catch to the locals and spend the money on upgrades so your boat can reach deeper trenches and farther islands.

Quests dig into each area's troubled past, and you have to keep an eye on the clock, because the biggest threats come out in the fog at night. The price shown is Steam's Complete Edition, which adds The Pale Reach, The Iron Rig and the Blackstone Key. The base game alone was $24.99 on November 9, 2026.