How to Fish Achievements: Full List of All 28

Steam's global stats confirm 28 achievements in total. The table below keeps Steam's own ordering, which runs from the most commonly earned achievement to the rarest — effectively a built-in difficulty ranking. Requirements use the official in-game wording.

Two things are worth noting when you read the numbers. First, even the rarest achievement on the list has been earned by real players, so nothing here is unobtainable. Second, the official Steam text for GOLD GOLD GOLD says you unlock a legendary "skin" from the slot machine — confirmed against the Steam achievement data; one secondary guide's "skill" wording is simply wrong.

The largest group of How to Fish achievements comes from simply playing and helping the characters you meet. Getting started, earned for killing your first creature, sits at 98.3% and is effectively guaranteed in your opening minutes. From there, NPC requests drive several unlocks: Who stole my beer asks you to find and kill the culprit and bring it to the lighthouse keeper, Dinnertime has you catch dinner for the lady in the forest, Vacation has you help the tourist swim on his vacation, and Terrorizing bird has you defend the scared islanders from the terrorizing bird.

Two more quest-style achievements sit deeper in the game. Deadliest catch asks you to help the military defeat the big creature they located, and We are so back unlocks when you finish the game — something only 26.6% of players have done. Let me go rounds out the group at 77.3% and asks for no effort at all, since it triggers when a seagull picks you up: it happens to you rather than because of you.

If any of these refuse to pop, the fix is usually to keep talking to every character you meet and follow their requests through to the end. Our walkthrough covers the main questline, and the islands pages break down where each part of the game takes place.

How to Fish tracks a kill score multiplier in combat, and two achievements sit at opposite ends of it. Noob, at 81.3%, asks for a kill with no kill score multiplier, while Impressive, at 74.0%, asks for a 5x killscore multiplier. The 360 no scope achievement is exactly what it sounds like — kill a creature with a 360 no scope — and Easy asks you to kill a boss within 10 seconds, which becomes far more realistic once your gear improves. See the bosses guides for the fights themselves.

The boat has its own upgrade track. Getting an upgrade unlocks the first time you upgrade the engine, and I am speed requires buying the best engine available. I'm the bird now is the odd one out of the whole list: make the boat fly. Finally, Fully equipped asks you to apply all attachments to a single weapon, so plan to build up one favorite weapon rather than spreading attachments across your whole arsenal.

The game includes gambling and cooking side activities, and both have achievements attached. GOLD GOLD GOLD unlocks when you pull a legendary skin from the slot machine, and All in asks you to bet on green and win at roulette — pure luck, so expect repeat attempts. On the cooking side, Grillmaster only asks you to start the grill, while Yummy in my tummy requires eating a burnt creature.

The collection grinds are where completion rates drop fast. Collector, at 10.0%, requires finding and killing all creatures, and Fishipedia, at 1.1%, requires finding and killing all drip creatures — the same family of targets as Drip, which pops for killing just one. Competitive eating asks you to eat a mini-boss, and Rich! Millionaire requires selling something worth 100,000 or more, which takes real economic progress. The money guide and fish guide cover what to catch and sell to get there.

Three achievements sit under 2% and define the endgame for completionists. Bean is the rarest of all at 0.8%: finish the game within 1 hour. That means a full playthrough on a strict clock, and it is covered step by step in our dedicated Bean achievement guide. Fishipedia is the second rarest at 1.1%, demanding every drip creature in the game.

Handyman, at 1.4%, asks you to defeat the final boss with your bare hands — deliberately ignoring your entire arsenal in the game's hardest fight. Everyone's dream, at 3.8%, asks you to kill a seagull with dynamite, which pairs awkwardly with Let me go, the achievement for being carried off by one. If you are chasing a 100% profile, these four are where your remaining hours will go.

A sensible order keeps the grind painless:

1. Finish the story first. We are so back plus the quest achievements carry you through most of the list without any detours.
2. Mop up the collection grinds next. Collector, Fishipedia, and Rich! Millionaire go much faster once you know where everything spawns and what sells well.
3. Attempt Bean last, on a dedicated run, once you know the quest order by heart. Our Bean guide is built for exactly that.
4. How to Fish supports online co-op for up to 8 players — see multiplayer. Tackle the risky ones solo if you want to be safe.

Whether any achievements are hidden or permanently missable is not confirmed in current sources. Nothing in the official descriptions hints at content you can lock yourself out of, but check back after major patches.