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A relaxing idle fishing game that waits for you at the bottom of your screen. CATCH fish, BUY upgrades, COMPLETE your collection, and DISPLAY them in your aquarium.

Idle Waters is a idler, simulation and fishing game developed and published by Ignita Games.
Released on June 12th 2025 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Korean and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 386 reviews of which 366 were positive and 20 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Idle Waters into these genres:

Idler Simulation Fishing Pixel Graphics Relaxing Strategy Nature Management Incremental Desktop Companion 2D Resource Management Casual Cute Creature Collector Atmospheric Colorful Cozy Life Sim Collectathon

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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i3 @ 3.2 GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce 970 or better

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124 hours played
April 2026
The end game is very grindy, like, days and days spent just trying to get the last 5 achievements. But! It's still a very cute game and the idling aspect is interesting and increasingly customisable over time. I like all the different landscapes, the puzzles, and that you could navigate to quest solves through the menu itself, or even through the item you've just caught. I think the developer's put a lot of thought into this! I just wish there was a way to use all the "useless" money at the end to speed up completing the collection. I know we have lures! But I would happily pay like, 100,000 to guarantee a specific kind of fish, or even 1,000,000 with how much money I had just sitting around at the end. That's just me though! And I do recommend this other game otherwise, it was very cute, and I liked it a lot.
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193 hours played
Nov. 2025
A lovely Over-The-Desktop idle game. It has pleasant and good looking sprite work and an overall peaceful aesthetic, combined with a fair bit of depth. At its core, Idle Waters is a fishing Collect-A-Thon done at the pace of an idle game. Your primary goal is to make money and catch every fish, and collect every item. To accomplish this goal, you must take your red panda to many locations, discover secrets, do item side quests for npc's you encounter, and feed your cat companion. This is all done through a simple to use map system, a "charm" system that lets you change up elements like catching certain fish without a time of day requirement or making the game more active, buying upgrades, and most importantly, catching fish. As you progress, you will also unlock aquariums to put your fish in to display and move around on your desktop, if you desire. While it takes a little bit of progress to reach the point in which you can turn the game into its more active mode, Idle Waters allows for either playstyle with no issue and the option can be turned off at will. The only true difference between the two play styles is the time required to finish your ultimate task of collecting everything. To add to that, the inventory system comes with a very well made "auto-sell" system with a robust amount of filtering options so you can limit what gets auto-sold. I enjoyed this game overall and found it to be well worth my time and money. It did its job well of being an idle game with a reasonable incentive to play it more actively on occasion, and it did not overstay it's welcome like some in the genre may do. If you're in the market for an idle game, give it a go, it will probably tickle your fancy.
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333 hours played
Sept. 2025
9/10: Another awesome idle game right here! It’s got different mechanics compared to your usual fishing idle games. There's a cool system where you can tweak your attributes to catch specific fish which adds a nice layer of strategy. The quests are fun too, you actually have missions like “go get this” or “hunt down that.” And the achievements? They don’t feel forced at all. Natural and satisfying to unlock.
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89 hours played
Aug. 2025
I second KoolLilKiwi's review :D I highly recommend it to anyone, who likes a semi-idle game. Idle Waters is a neat little semi-idle game. Plenty of fish and other items to discover, upgrades to work your way through, new areas that unlock as you progress. I thoroughly enjoyed this game for the first 40+ hours or so, but then it turned in to a pure idle game - just letting it run for hours on end to try to fill the collection with all the different variants of each fish. At this point I found it hard to stay motivated to even start it up as I like the feeling of progression in idle-type games, but I don't actually like pure idle games. I like the semi-idle ones, where you do have to interact with the game now and then, but it's chill enough that you can watch something else on the side. So this game did fit the bill for the first long while. Now that sounded a bit negative, HOWEVER the developer is extremely responsive to feedback and has been releasing loads of patches to fix and improve things and the latest update lured me back to the game. A new feature was added to make the endgame more appealing. There were already charms in the game - very handy to use to help you catch what you are after (and they still are). But the charms didn't quite cut it, when it came to catching all the different variants of each fish - not without the previously mentioned many hours of pure idling. In comes Lures! Lures cost money each time they are used, but significantly increases your chances of catching the fish they are for. You can now use lures to hunt for a specific level and combine it with a lure for a specific variant (rare, silver, gold or rainbow). It's still not a 100% guarantee that you get the exact fish that you are after. It does however cut down the time needed to catch the right one enough that you'll feel the need to switch out lures (and charms) fairly regularly - turning the game back in to being playable as a semi-idle game. Yay! I'm now having fun playing again and have been spending the last couple of days grinding out those last achievements. Just 1 left which I should get today. *fingers crossed*
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187 hours played
July 2025
I finally caught all fish and finished the game. I really enjoyed playing this. I love these bottom of the screen games that you can play while you work on other things. I'll be trying out Tiny Pasture and Corner Pond next.
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Idle Waters is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

No, Idle Waters is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Yes, Idle Waters received 366 positive votes out of a total of 386 achieving a rating of 8.74.
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Idle Waters was developed and published by Ignita Games.

Yes, Idle Waters is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, Idle Waters is not playable on MacOS.

No, Idle Waters is not playable on Linux.

Idle Waters is a single-player game.

Yes, there is a DLC available for Idle Waters. Explore additional content available for Idle Waters on Steam.

No, Idle Waters does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Idle Waters does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Idle Waters is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Idle Waters
4.99€ Buy Now
Rating
8.7
366
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Developer
Ignita Games
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Ignita Games
Release 12 Jun 2025
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