Idle Waters

Idle Waters

Released Jun 2025

A relaxing idle fishing game that waits for you at the bottom of your screen. CATCH fish, BUY upgrades, COMPLETE your collection, and DISPLAY them in your aquarium.

94% positive · 396 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

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Evaluation

Idle Waters launched on June 12, 2025 and received a burst of activity in its first months: multiple feature patches shipped through late June and July 2025, and one named major content update — Version 1.1.0 — arrived on August 9, 2025, introducing a new lure system for end-game players and improvements to charms. The last developer communication of any kind was a bug fix on July 25, 2025 (before Version 1.1.0 on August 9, 2025 — the major update is the most recent post in the dataset). As of today, September 24, 2026, the last developer post was on August 9, 2025 — over 13 months ago. The game's update history shows a single major content release followed by maintenance patches, all clustered within the first two months after launch. There is no established cadence of recurring major releases that would suggest another wave of content is coming. The developer has made no announcements of future content, no roadmap, and no additional DLC beyond the day-one Supporter Pack (a cosmetic/tip item, not a content expansion). The developer's posts from that period signal that the lure update was the culmination of player-requested improvements, with no forward-looking commitments surviving past that point. With no outstanding content commitments, no sustained multi-wave update pattern pointing toward future releases, and over 13 months of silence following what appears to be a final content update, the game appears to have shipped as a complete product whose post-launch polish phase has now concluded.
Evidence
Version 1.1.0 shipped — introduced the lure system and charm improvements, targeting end-game players. The developer framed this as completing a set of player-requested improvements. No future content was announced.
news post · Aug 9, 2025 source content shipped
high
V1.0.13 patch notes previewed a 'small content update' to improve the endgame — this was fulfilled by Version 1.1.0 on August 9, 2025. No further content was promised beyond that.
news post · Jul 5, 2025 source content shipped
medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Ignita Games
Achievements
100
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Idle Waters is a relaxing idle fishing game that waits for you while you do other things.

You can focus on other tasks while playing because it will stay at the bottom of your screen.

You may zoom in or out, change the layout, resize the game view, move it around your screen, or hide it completely.

Unlike other games, the fish waits for you! When you are ready, click on the game to catch the fish. Or let it fish on its own with auto-fishing

Explore 12 biomes, with a total of 100 fish to catch

Keep fishing to complete the collection with their color variants. And find the legendary fish

Buy upgrades to catch new fish

Find treasures

Complete quests

Look at your collection and customize your aquariums.

Last evaluated Sep 24, 2026
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