The surreal co-op action title How to Fish has quickly become a major hit on Steam, leading developer Dazed Games to issue a wave of updates featuring larger player lobbies, private matchmaking, and crucial stability fixes.
The game features worm-like characters who venture to strange islands by boat to catch aggressive sea creatures before eliminating them with high-powered weaponry like golden sniper rifles. Cash earned from catches can then be spent on various weapons and gadgets. Despite its niche concept, the title accumulated around 340,000 peak concurrent players during its debut weekend, notably surpassing the concurrent user counts recorded by the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta over the same period.
Following the sudden surge in popularity, Dazed Games deployed updates to refine multiplayer features and protect against disruptive behavior. Lobbies now accommodate up to eight players and support private, invite-only sessions. The patch also addresses griefing issues by preventing unauthorized players from joining matches to trigger immediate game overs, alongside cleaning up dummy server listings.
Other quality-of-life additions include auto-saves triggering every minute, extra manual save triggers upon quitting, inverted axis settings, and a reduced minimum target frame rate option of 30 FPS. On the gameplay side, the developers patched an exploit that permitted unauthorized travel to locked islands, resolved a 4K visual bug affecting slot machines, and rebalanced dynamic encounters involving the Pufferfish and Whale enemies.
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