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Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing

92% positive of 14 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Banana Jam Games.

About the game

Strange Shores is a 1–4 player online fishing game you play from the corner of your desktop. Catch over 100 fish and unusual items, share catches, send emotes, and unlock new locations. Work, study, chat, watch... FISH!

Tagged by players

  • Fishing
  • Collectathon
  • Creature Collector
  • Online Co-Op
  • Incremental
  • Idler
  • Point & Click
  • Asynchronous Multiplayer
  • Linear
  • Relaxing
  • Casual
  • Co-op

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Strange Shores is a delightful little idle fishing game that will sit in the corner of any screen you put it on, and somehow distract you far more than it should! With a variety of baits, backgrounds and some unique catches, you'll find yourself pulling up Orca on far away planets in no time. The game could probably use a quick-join function so you can join people who haven't set up a lobby specifically, but the…

    1.5 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    would give this a neutral review if i could, as its INCREDIBLY simple. just catch fish and bait, thats the core gameplay. i mostly wanted to write this review to say there are no public lobbies, and i think itd be cool if there were

    28 min played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    While the graphics are retro-fun at first, you soon realize there's not much to them as the game is just a couple of frames that doesn't change while you play, its just playing a loop of maybe 3 animated frames on your computer. When the RNG determines its time to catch a fish a mini game opens up where you have to click a certain number of times to catch the first, that's pretty much the entire game. Some different…

    7 min played when written. 3 found it helpful.

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