Games like Call of the Wild: The Angler™
by Expansive Worlds
The Angler is an open world fishing game that can be played solo or with friends. Discover and catch a wide variety of unique fish species, from common to rare, on your journey to become a master angler.
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$19.99Ultimate Fishing® Simulator 2
May 9 · Silent Bear Studio, SHINING GAMES
Both: Fishing · Sports · Realistic
Fish around the globe using float, bottom, spinning, or casting gear, and catch over 60 realistic fish species. Play solo or online in normal, realistic, or sandbox mode! Explore stunning locations, switch to an underwater cam, and fill your trophy room!
FishingSimulationMultiplayerSportsRealisticSingleplayerFirst-PersonRelaxingCasualAdventure👍 2,078
$2.99Cornerpond
Apr 21 · foolsroom
Both: Fishing · Relaxing
A chill idle-fishing desktop toy in the corner of your screen. Buy upgrades, catch rare fish, and customize your avatar at your own pace!
Desktop CompanionIdlerIncrementalSimulationFishingCreature CollectorPixel GraphicsRelaxingCasualCute👍 2,567
$6.99Open Fishing 2
Mar 6 · Kunstaat
Both: Fishing · Open World · Nature
Open Fishing 2 is a chill open world fishing game. Fill out a book with 115 fish species, meet friendly fish gods, sail the oceans with your boat, cook, draw your own map, and enjoy fishing without worries.
SimulationFishingOpen WorldNatureMultiplayerSingleplayerSailingCasualCollectathonCooking
$9.99Scale the Depths
May 28 · Glass Gecko Games
Both: Fishing · Relaxing
Fish, scale, sell, repeat. Scale the Depths is a casual fishing game built around this simple but satisfying loop. Feed hungry customers, upgrade your gear, and uncover the many secrets hidden beneath the surface.
FishingCasualPixel GraphicsFunnyUnderwaterEconomyRelaxingArcadeSimulationExploration👍 1,891
-66%$8.15Nice Day for Fishing
May 29 · FusionPlay
Both: Fishing
The world needs you Adventurer! Embark on an RPG pixel adventure where you’ll play as Baelin the humble fisherman, who must rise-up to become the hero of Honeywood. Battle fish with precision timing and magic spells, upgrade your abilities, defeat evil and rebuild Honeywood.
FishingRPGAdventureAction RPGAction-AdventureCreature CollectorSide ScrollerPixel Graphics2DColorful👍 2,610
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Both: Fishing · Relaxing
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Both: Immersive Sim · Fishing
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$21.99Alaskan Road Truckers
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Both: Open World · Realistic · Immersive Sim
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$19.99Dinkum
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Both: Relaxing
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Both: Open World · Relaxing
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Both: Immersive Sim · Realistic · Open World
Build your maritime career solo or with up to 4 players. Take on contracts across diverse harbors, command different ships, and tackle cargo runs, patrols, rescues, firefighting, and unexpected events in a vast Northern European open world.
SimulationCasualNavalLife SimExplorationImmersive Sim3DRealisticTransportationOpen World👍 1,926
$9.99GONE Fishing
Jun 15 · GONE Studios
Both: Fishing
GONE Fishing is a 1-8 player survival horror game where you and your friends must work together to stay alive, by fishing. The only way to survive is to keep feeding the lake’s insatiable hunger before it feeds on you. Can you satisfy the hunger... or will you become the next offering?
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Both: Open World
The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.
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Both: Immersive Sim
Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.
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Both: Fishing
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FishingAtmosphericLovecraftianSimulationLinearSandboxCasualRetroCollectathonExploration
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Both: Open World · Realistic
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$8.99Open Hunting XL
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Both: Open World · Realistic · Nature
Open Hunting XL is a hunting simulator with an emphasis on player freedom. Quickly spot animals using your drone or sneak and spot with binoculars depending on the difficulty you select. Hunt in several locations and level up to unlock mechanics seen in no other hunting game.
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Both: Walking Simulator · Realistic · Relaxing
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$29.99Age of Water
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Both: Open World
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NavalOpen WorldPost-apocalypticAction-AdventureCraftingMassively MultiplayerActionPiratesMMORPGShooter👍 2,883
$9.99Voodoo Fishin'
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Both: Fishing
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Early AccessExplorationFishingFirst-PersonAdventureMultiplayer3D PlatformerPvEStylizedPlatformer👍 801
$9.99FISH FEAR ME
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Both: Fishing
A top-down action roguelite about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, and catching more fish. Upgrade your boat and weapons, hunt down sea monster bounties, delve into eldritch mysteries, and try to pay off a cosmic debt millennia in the making.
ActionAction RoguelikeRoguelikeFishingBullet HellRogueliteTop-Down Shooter2DAbstractStylized👍 214
$15.99Aquarist
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Both: Fishing · Relaxing
Build beautiful aquariums, care for exotic marine life, complete creative customer jobs, and grow your own aquarium business into a world-class oceanarium in this relaxing sandbox simulation.
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Both: Open World
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Both: Open World
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Both: Open World
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Both: Open World · Nature
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Both: Open World · Realistic
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$29.99Sons Of The Forest
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Both: Open World
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$5.99FlyKnight
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Both: Fishing
Explore, fight, loot and fish! Solo or in co-op mode in this Old School First Person Dungeon Crawler. Earn your knighthood as you oppose the evil witch Lunamoth and stop her curse which prevents everyone from growing wings.
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$24.99Ships At Sea
May 23 · Misc Games
Both: Immersive Sim
Build your maritime career and grow your fleet in a next‑generation ship simulator set in an expansive open world of Norway’s Lofoten region. Command service, cargo, and fishing vessels in singleplayer or online co‑op, mastering realistic ship handling, dynamic weather, and professional jobs at sea!
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