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Fish

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

you click fish to get fish.

What works

  • Minimalist and accessible gameplay
  • Relaxing and meditative experience
  • Free to play
  • Simple and easy to understand
  • Collection of fish items

Things to keep in mind

  • Highly repetitive and monotonous
  • Lack of meaningful progression or strategy
  • Potential for unhealthy obsessive play
  • Minimal social or cooperative features
  • Poor return on time investment

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

Less competitive

Games that feels like Fish but with less competition against others

Less dominating

Games that feels like Fish but with less domination over others

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Fish. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Fish. These titles are not in What to play next.

Fish: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Autonomy, Strategy, Experimenting, Competence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Last update: 24/08/2026