Updated 2026-08-30
How to Fish Achievements: All 28
Check all 28 How to Fish achievements, their official Steam requirements, and a practical order for story, action, collection, and challenge goals.
Confirmed
How to Fish has 28 Steam achievements. Steam publishes the name and requirement for every achievement; the percentages beside them are live global statistics and will change as more people play.
All 28 How to Fish achievements
The groups below are an editorial checklist, not official Steam categories. The requirement wording is paraphrased only to make the table easier to scan.
| Achievement | Official requirement | Checklist group |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Kill your first creature | First actions |
| Drip | Kill a drip creature | Collection |
| Who stole my beer | Find and kill the culprit, then bring it to the lighthouse keeper | Quest |
| Noob | Get a kill with no kill-score multiplier | Combat |
| Getting an upgrade | Upgrade the boat engine | Upgrade |
| Dinnertime | Catch dinner for the woman in the forest | Quest |
| Let me go | Get picked up by a seagull | Encounter |
| Impressive | Reach a 5x kill-score multiplier | Combat |
| Grillmaster | Start the grill | Cooking |
| GOLD GOLD GOLD | Unlock a legendary skin from the slot machine | Gambling |
| Vacation | Help the tourist swim during his vacation | Quest |
| 360 no scope | Kill a creature with a 360 no-scope shot | Trick shot |
| I am speed | Buy the best boat engine | Upgrade |
| Fully equipped | Apply every attachment to one weapon | Equipment |
| Terrorizing bird | Defend the frightened islanders from the bird | Quest |
| Yummy in my tummy | Eat a burnt creature | Cooking |
| Deadliest catch | Help the military defeat the large creature they located | Quest |
| We are so back | Finish the game | Story |
| All in | Bet on green and win at roulette | Gambling |
| Easy | Kill a boss within 10 seconds | Boss challenge |
| I'm the bird now | Make the boat fly | Boat challenge |
| Competitive eating | Eat a mini-boss | Cooking challenge |
| Collector | Find and kill every creature | Collection |
| Rich! Millionaire | Sell one item worth at least 100,000 | Money challenge |
| Everyone's dream | Kill a seagull with dynamite | Combat challenge |
| Handyman | Defeat the final boss using only bare hands | Boss challenge |
| Fishipedia | Find and kill every drip creature | Collection |
| Bean | Finish the game in under one hour | Speedrun |
A practical completion order
Finish the story once before planning cleanup. That route naturally exposes the boat upgrades, island quests, bosses, grill, weapons, creatures, and ending that many requirements depend on. Keep situational goals such as a seagull pickup, burnt food, roulette, and trick shots in mind, but do not restart a run merely because one did not unlock.
After the ending, compare your Steam list against the table. Use the How to Fish fish list for Collector and Fishipedia, the Reel of Fortune guide for cosmetic skins, and the roulette guide for All In and Rich! Millionaire.
Leave Handyman and Bean for dedicated attempts. Handyman fixes your final-boss finishing condition, while Bean limits the entire run to less than one hour. Steam confirms those requirements but does not publish an official route or loadout for either one. Use the Bean achievement guide for a reported island-by-island route and the playtime guide for completion-time context.
Grillmaster, Yummy in my tummy, and Competitive eating use separate cooking conditions. The cooking guide explains the normal grill flow and the burnt-food requirement without combining them into one unlock.
Achievement names that are easy to misread
The achievement named Easy requires a boss kill within ten seconds. It is separate from the Easy difficulty option added in Patch 1.0.9; the official notes do not say that selecting Easy difficulty automatically unlocks it.
Collector covers every creature, while Fishipedia covers every drip creature. Drip is the earlier single-creature achievement. Treat them as three separate checks instead of expecting one collection event to satisfy all three descriptions.
Patch 1.0.5 fixed a Fishipedia-related unlock problem that previously required finding an extra drip creature. Patch 1.0.4 also fixed the final-boss bare-hands achievement for all players. Install current updates before repeating either requirement on an old build.
What Steam does not confirm
The official How to Fish achievements page does not provide a missable-achievement list, recommended difficulty, multiplayer credit rule, or step-by-step route. Those details remain unconfirmed here. Check the live Steam list for your own unlock state and current global percentages.
What the structured record says
- developer
- Dazed Games
- publisher
- Dazed Games
- release Date
- 2026-08-20
- platform
- Windows PC via Steam
