FISH FEAR ME

FISH FEAR ME

Released Feb 2025

A top-down action roguelite about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, and catching more fish. Upgrade your boat and weapons, hunt down sea monster bounties, delve into eldritch mysteries, and try to pay off a cosmic debt millennia in the making.

85% positive · 226 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

FISH FEAR ME launched on February 21, 2025 as a complete game. The developer, Heather Flowers, then shipped two major free content expansions: The Krill Update on June 16, 2025, and the Women Want Me expansion on September 25, 2025, which added an entirely new map, 75+ fish, new weapons, boats, a boss, and animated cutscenes. On August 5, 2026, the developer posted a direct statement about the game's future: "the game is likely not going to receive any further content updates in the future -- I have many more games I want to make." This is a clear Tier 1 developer statement concluding content development. Heather explains that she was seriously ill immediately after the Women Want Me expansion launched and, upon recovering, shifted focus to her next game. The August 5, 2026 post was a small optimization patch — the kind of occasional maintenance the developer says she may still provide ("I might poke my head in now and then and fix some stuff") — but no new content is planned. This supersedes the earlier "even more plans" comment from February 2025, which predated both expansions. Those plans have plausibly been fulfilled by the Women Want Me expansion (the only specifically teased future content), and the developer has now explicitly stated that content development is concluded. The game is complete as of September 25, 2025, when the final major expansion shipped.
Evidence
Developer Heather Flowers explicitly states: 'the game is likely not going to receive any further content updates in the future -- I have many more games I want to make.' She explains she was seriously ill after the Women Want Me expansion launched and has since shifted focus to her next game. She may occasionally fix bugs but does not plan new content.
news post · Aug 5, 2026 source development ending
high
The Women Want Me free expansion launched, delivering a new map (Lake of the Lady), 75+ new fish, five new meta-progression upgrades, ten new weapons, four new boats, a new boss fight, animated cutscenes, and 24 new achievements — the largest content addition to the game.
news post · Sep 25, 2025 source content shipped
high

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Details

Publisher
HEATHER FLOWERS
Achievements
111
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

FISH FEAR ME is a top-down Vampire Survivors-style roguelite where you fish up your enemies to fight, defeat, and sell them! Catch fish, uncover secrets, and hunt bounties to earn cash and forbidden knowledge, and use those resources to upgrade your boat, unlock new weapons and tools, and gain new abilities. Each region has new fish to catch, new bounties to fulfill, and new terrors of the deep. From the placid waters of Nightmare Lake to the subterranean wastes of the Shadow Sea, monsters lurk beneath the deep... Are you able to bring home the biggest catch?

You are being watched. The Leviathan, a cosmic force of death, will try to consume you after seven days on the water. At first, you won't be able to stop it; you're a mere mortal, and it's an infinite eldritch being. However, you have an advantage: a billion-dollar cosmic debt which returns you from the dead. With each new run, you grow stronger. The Leviathan is hunting you. Hunt it back.

The weapons at your disposal are as varied and chaotic as the fish you're fighting. Recruit fish into your skeleton army after thwacking them with a giant anchor. Ram into sea monsters head-on, then heal up using a magic lure. As you catch stronger and stronger fish that want to eat you, only smart build-crafting can keep you alive.

Eventually you'll make a mistake. You'll get too greedy, bring too many fish up at once, and get swarmed and destroyed. With each new run, you'll learn a little more, unlock more upgrades for the future, and get closer to your true goal: slay the Leviathan, pay off your cosmic debt, and become the greatest battle-fisherman of all time.

Last evaluated Aug 9, 2026
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