🚀 Getting Started

Getting Started

Before you buy, the 3 things to do first, key bindings, fishing, healing, combat and an island-by-island guide.

What to Know Before You Buy

Game mechanics	A first-person fishing-shooter. Core loop: Fish → Kill → Sell → Upgrade weapons → Fight bosses.
Solo vs. Co-op	Solo is playable but gets dull fast; co-op supports up to 8 players — playing with friends makes the experience far better.
System requirements	Light — an i3 handles it easily.
No cloud saves	Cloud saving isn't marked on the Steam page; back up before switching PCs or wiping saves.
Co-op saves live on the host	Only the host's save persists — ideally the same person always hosts.
Difficulty	On the harder side — the fish are hyper-aggressive, and there are no armor/HP upgrades. Rookie players, beware.
Length	Short — roughly 1–2 hours excluding fishing-for-cash grind.

1. Raise your sensitivity

The default sensitivity is only 0.5, way too low. Bump it up in settings first, or turning around will feel awful.

2. Rebind your keys

Known bug: keybindings reset to default every time you quit. Open the keybind menu and back out to restore them — do it each session.
Field of view and framerate settings also don't persist; reset them every launch.

3. Turn off friendly fire (co-op)

Q	Drop item (press Q to set down dynamite before throwing)
F	Inspect item (check cooking multiplier)
Tab	Open the collection/inspect page
Shift + A/D/S	Sprint sideways/backwards (not taught in-game, but extremely useful!)
E	Interact (get off boat / return, etc.)
Radar RMB	Zoom the map out

Just place it on the ground and wait — fish hook themselves.

You must reel it in after casting to hook a fish — idle waiting yields nothing.

On the whale island, throw dynamite into the water to catch fish without fishing one by one (great value).

Can't reel your rod back in time during a boss fight? Just drop it and pick it back up — no bait wasted.

Grab freshly killed fish fast, or seagulls will steal them (including your premium catches!).

Food restores HP; grilled food restores more.
Island 3 unlocks grilling: cook to a 1.5x price max, but burning drops it to 0.1x. Press F to check the multiplier; stop as soon as it hits 1.5.
Volcanic lava auto-cooks anything that falls in to perfect doneness (free cooking).
When in water, keep jumping and you won't drown.
Downed teammate: a slap revives them, but be quick — otherwise a seagull will haul them off.

Recommended Weapon Progression

Stage	Pick	Notes
Island 1	Knife (melee)	For the crab: after it stuns, land 6 knife hits up close or 4 from slightly farther, then back off.
Island 2	Shotgun + dynamite	Dynamite clears the piranha adds; shotgun point-blank finishes the field.
Island 3	SMG	Beware the massive, hard-to-control recoil.
Island 4	Sniper	Slow bolt-action; great for the boss, not recommended for fish.
Island 5 / Final	Fully-upgraded Assault Rifle	The best choice for the final boss.

Budget & Avoidance

Don't over-invest in melee upgrades (poor value after Island 1).
Don't grill weapons (skins/cosmetics disappear; you can only buy a new one).
Don't gamble it all on the skin gacha (you might get duplicates and lose everything).

Dynamite damage has no damage cap.
Pile a huge stack of dynamite in one spot, lure the boss over = tactical nuke.
Shooting dynamite on the ground detonates it too; one explosion chain-detonates all nearby sticks.

Island 1 · Spider Crab	Buy the knife; wait for it to charge and stun against a wall, land a few hits, then back off — don't get greedy.
Island 2 · Big Piranha	Dynamite the adds, shotgun the field, and snack on the small piranhas on the ground to heal mid-fight.
Island 3 · Blue Shark	If you can't win, hide behind trees and use them to block the shark.
Island 3 · Pufferfish	Circle it; when it dashes, sidestep and jump — it will jump too, and you can shoot it while it's slowed mid-air; in phase 2 (below half HP), weave in an S-pattern to dodge the poison.
Island 4 · Albatross	Sprint to dodge dives, take cover in a house and fight slowly, and bomb a few fish to snack on.
Island 5 · Bowhead Whale	Stay on the right side of the island house — hug the wall and the whale's downward slam can't reach you; it keeps jumping right above your head, so just shoot straight up.
Final Boss · Volcano Whale	In co-op, fight from the boat: one player circles the island driving while the others DPS from deck — you barely take damage.