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Pacifish

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

Pacifish is an incremental fishing management game with several mechanics to interact with and improve. It can be played both idly, or more actively to progress faster.

What works

  • Free to play
  • Relaxing and chill gameplay
  • Multiple interconnected mini-games
  • Achievable end and full achievements
  • Active developer support and updates

Things to keep in mind

  • No offline progress
  • Slow and repetitive late game
  • Save file corruption issues reported
  • Some ui and balancing problems
  • Lack of depth and social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Tiny Rails

  • Idle Cave Miner

  • Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi

  • Fishing Inc

  • Cornerpond

  • Territory Idle

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Pacifish but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Crop Rotation

  • Idle Slayer

  • Sizzle & Stack

  • Rana Card

  • Instruction

  • Kingsway

More fantastical

Games that feels like Pacifish but with more imaginative fiction

  • Scream Collector

  • 懒人修仙传2

  • Black Hole Fishing

  • NGU IDLE

  • Melvor Idle

  • Evitania Online - Idle RPG

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Pacifish. These titles are not in What to play next.

Pacifish: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Thrill, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Story, Exploration.

Last update: 21/08/2026