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Cat Goes Fishing
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 96% of owners
Steam reviews 94% positive of 16,633
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (23%); after 7h it's 1 in 30 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 96% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 16,807 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 9.3h for positive, 9.1h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (95.6% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (86)
story milestone ending side
- Doing Good Unlock the Good Rod. 100%
- Fast Forward Upgrade your rod with a Sinking Lure. 93%
- Powerful Unlock the Power Rod. 88%
- Scouter Upgrade your rod with Scouting. 87%
- Offshoring Unlock the Basic Boat. 75%
- Paranoia Upgrade your rod with Bait Guard. 72%
- Quickening Unlock the Quick Rod. 69%
- Suntouched Throw a large or huge fish back. 68%
- Casual Quester Complete 10 quests. 66%
- Slow Motion Upgrade your rod with a Suspending Lure. 66%
- Such Swag Find a hat. 65%
- Fine Tuning Because being complicated is cool. 62%
- Peripheral Vision Unlock the Minimap. 60%
- High Seas Unlock the Good Boat. 54%
- Hurry up! Upgrade your rod with an Improved Crank. 51%
- Bright Idea Buy a lightbulb lure. 49%
- Doing Great Unlock the Great Rod. 48%
- Super Swag Find a legendary hat. 47%
- Rod Master Unlock the Master Rod. 46%
- Moo Catch a Cowfish in Realism mode. 44%
- Whee! Catch a Seraph in Realism mode. 41%
- The Struggle is Reel Catch a Turgeon in Realism mode. 37%
- Trumble Catch a Trumble in Realism mode. 34%
- Catfin Catch a Catfin in Realism mode. 34%
- Boat Master Unlock the Great Boat. 32%
- Georgian Catch a Georgian in Realism mode. 32%
- Boom! Scare away 15 or more fish with a single bomb. 31%
- Felish Catch a Felish in Realism mode. 31%
- No Diving Allowed Catch a Brimble in Realism mode. 30%
- Angler Catch an Anglerfish in Realism mode. 29%
- Stealth Mode Upgrade your rod with Crankbait. 29%
- Shark Slayer Catch a Shark in Realism mode. 29%
- Tiger Tamer Catch a Tiger Shark in Realism mode. 25%
- Eyes Down Deep Unlock the Radar. 25%
- Bagu Catch a Bagu in Realism mode. 25%
- Patience It's a virtue. 24%
- Go Away! Upgrade your rod with Repel. 22%
- Perpetual Motion Casting? Never heard of it. 20%
- Core Quester Complete 25 quests. 20%
- Moga Moga Catch a Moga in Realism mode. 20%
- Master of the Maw Catch a Maw in Realism mode. 20%
- Swordfish Catch the Swordfish in Realism mode. 17%
- Chompy Catch a Chompy in Realism mode. 17%
- Come Here! Upgrade your rod with Attract. 16%
- On The Brink Catch a Torby in Realism mode. 15%
- Koin Catch a Koin in Realism mode. 15%
- Mizifin Catch a Mizifin in Realism mode. 14%
- Ray Catch a Ray in Realism mode. 14%
- Conga Catch a Conga in Realism mode. 13%
- Noctis Catch the Noctis in Realism mode. 13%
- Thresher Catch a Thresher in Realism mode. 13%
- Spotter Catch a Spotter in Realism mode. 12%
- Cavefish Catch a Cavefish in Realism mode. 12%
- Oops Cause the extinction of a species. 12%
- Disturbing the Peace Catch a Bonefish in Realism mode. 12%
- Swaller Catch a Swaller in Realism mode. 11%
- Tik Tik Catch a Tik Tik in Realism mode. 11%
- Hamahed Catch the Hamahed in Realism mode. 10%
- Gupper Catch a Gupper in Realism mode. 10%
- Stankfin Catch a Stankfin in Realism mode. 9.7%
- Dragon Fish Catch a Dragon Fish in Realism mode. 9.7%
- Lampis Catch a Lampis in Realism mode. 9.2%
- Sired Catch a Nightfish Sire in Realism mode. 9.0%
- Thistle Catch a Thistle in Realism mode. 8.4%
- Impatience It's not a virtue. 7.3%
- Abyssal Catch the Abyssal in Realism mode. 7.2%
- Dragon Catch the Dragon in Realism mode. 6.8%
- Santu Catch a Santu in Reaism mode. 6.2%
- Gorbon Catch a Gorbon in Realism mode. 5.8%
- Piercer Catch a Piercer in Realism mode. 5.8%
- Hardcore Quester Complete 50 quests. 5.4%
- Lemonback Catch a Lemonback in Realism mode. 5.4%
- Geiger Catch a Geiger in Realism mode. 5.1%
- Luifin Catch a Luifin in Realism mode. 5.0%
- Josie Catch a Josie in Realism mode. 4.9%
- Cave Shark Catch the Cave Shark in Realism mode. 3.9%
- Brute Force Max improved crank upgrades. 3.7%
- Germ Catch a Germ in Realism mode. 3.7%
- Mamo Catch a Mamo in Realism mode. 3.2%
- Avoidance Upgrade a rod with three repels. 3.0%
- Escape The Map Escape the map. 2.9%
- Attraction Upgrade a rod with three attracts. 2.8%
- Clever Cat Catch a Shark with the basic rod. 2.5%
- Master Quester Complete 100 quests. 2.2%
- Ghost Catch a Ghost in Realism mode. 2.0%
- Temporal Agent Go back in time and save the Cuddlecanth from extinction. 1.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.