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Cat Goes Fishing

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2015

Should you play it?

Start out on an island with a basic rod. Progress into a radar-wielding master fisher-cat scouring the sea for the biggest and baddest fish. Each fish has unique behaviors that you will learn to exploit as you tailor your arsenal of fishing rods to suit your style of play. Mrrrow!

What works

  • Relaxing and charming gameplay
  • Simple controls with strategic depth
  • Large variety of fish and upgrades
  • Good value for price
  • Cute art style and music

Things to keep in mind

  • Some grind and repetitive quests
  • Minor bugs and occasional fish spawn issues
  • Music can become repetitive
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Progression can become slow at high levels

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • One Man´s Trash

  • The Greenening

  • Sea Fantasy

  • Doggone Hungry

  • Sip Fisher

  • Scale the Depths

More idle-friendly

Games that feels like Cat Goes Fishing but with a stronger idle, pick-up-and-play feel

  • Chillquarium

  • Fischer's Fishing Journey

  • Fantasy Aquarium

  • Fishing The Abyss

  • Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi

  • Idle Waters

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Cat Goes Fishing: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026