In a crowded field of games both about fishing and that have fishing in them, the simply named How to Fish has surprisingly managed to reel people in. As I write this, it’s got over 127k players on Steam, with a 24-hour peak of over 370k, and its numbers have only been steadily rising since it launched on August 20, with overwhelmingly positive user reviews. It sold over a million copies in two days. People are calling it (affectionately) the latest friendslop hit, a game to play with your buds where everyone can hang out and get real silly for hours.

I was curious, so I checked it out, and died to a freakishly huge Spider Crab within about five minutes.

How to Fish is…well, certainly about learning how to fish, or how someone with a steady diet of action movies and no experience with fish might think fishing works. You begin with your boat crashing on a tiny island inhabited by you, some clams, and another guy who can sell you some bits of junk in exchange for the fish you catch. You need that junk to buy a crab fishing rod and a beer can for bait, which you can then use to fish up the aforementioned Spider Crab that’s been terrorizing this poor man. Make sure you give the man the beer and don’t drink it yourself like I did, because apparently if I drink beer, I drink the can, too, and have to start all over.

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