Games like Nice Day for Fishing
If Nice Day for Fishing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rune Factory 3 Special, Sauna of the DEAD and Monster Harvest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its achievement hunting loop, charming character references and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Nice Day for Fishing is a pixel-art adventure RPG released in 2025 by FusionPlay and published by Team17. Players control Baelin, a humble fisherman who must rise to become the hero of Honeywood. The game features fishing as its core activity alongside crafting, item collection, and fetch-quests, wrapped in an achievement-hunting loop. Reviewers and players describe the experience as cozy, lighthearted, and contemplative, with humor that is self-aware and pun-heavy, often drawing charming character references. The intuitive fishing mechanics make it easy to pick up and play casually. Priced at $9.99 and verified on Steam Deck, it earned an 88% positive rating from 1,969 Steam reviews.
About Nice Day for Fishing: The world needs you Adventurer! Embark on an RPG pixel adventure where you’ll play as Baelin the humble fisherman, who must rise-up to become the hero of Honeywood. Battle fish with precision timing and magic spells, upgrade your abilities, defeat evil and rebuild Honeywood.
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Rune Factory 3 Special
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Shares crafting and a nostalgic mood with Nice Day for Fishing.
Top pick for Nice Day for Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
Bridge the divide of an ancient schism between humans and monsters in Rune Factory 3 Special as half-human, half-wooly protagonist Micah. Farm, fight and fall in love as you revisit a classic in the series that perfected the blend of RPG & Life-sim genres.
Sauna of the DEAD
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Second-strongest match for Nice Day for Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
Heatwave Master, bring order to underworld's sauna. FEEL the exhilarating chaos of Heatwave Mastery!
Monster Harvest
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Shares a lighthearted mood with Nice Day for Fishing.
Third-strongest match for Nice Day for Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
Monster Harvest is a monster collecting and farming action RPG with a twist! Grow, collect and mutate your crops then take them into battle! Filled with places to discover and multiple ways to build your farm, get ready to craft, explore and battle across the vibrant world of Planimal Point.
Creature Keeper
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Shares a funny mood with Nice Day for Fishing.
Ranked #4 for Nice Day for Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
Creature Keeper is an action-adventure RPG where you Befriend Creatures and fight alongside them in real time. Explore a mysterious world and uncover the truth behind a strange sickness spreading across the land. Power up your team, fill out your Bestiary, and embark on your journey of destiny!
Be Hero
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Shares resource gathering, crafting and a cozy mood with Nice Day for Fishing.
Ranked #5 for Nice Day for Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
Be Hero is a farming/crafting RPG about an aspiring hero who arrived late to the final battle and needs to work in a tavern to be able to return home.
Temtem: Pioneers
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Ranked #6 for Nice Day for Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
Survive and explore an untamed frontier in Temtem: Pioneers. Tame and become a roster of 200+ Temtem and master their unique abilities in fast, real-time combat. Build, craft, battle, and discover new creatures solo, or co-op with your friends in this open world survival crafting adventure.
Stick Mountain
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Ranked #7 for Nice Day for Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
In Stick Mountain, become an elite S-Co agent tasked with eliminating deadly threats across different worlds. Master elemental powers, craft powerful gear, and forge your own path to shape the fate of entire civilizations.
Orion Blue
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Ranked #8 for Nice Day for Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
Orion Blue is a cozy fishing adventure set on a beautiful alien planet. Catch fish, gather resources, and build relationships with the locals. Play actively, or relax and let the game progress with Idle Mode.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nice Day for Fishing at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Nice Day for Fishing on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Nice Day for Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Nice Day for Fishing on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
GRIS
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Priced ~63% under Nice Day for Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~80% under Nice Day for Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Nice Day for Fishing.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga
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Priced ~50% under Nice Day for Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
The Room
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Priced ~50% under Nice Day for Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~85% under Nice Day for Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Nice Day for Fishing.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Nice Day for Fishing
- Is Nice Day for Fishing verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Nice Day for Fishing is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Nice Day for Fishing cost?
- Nice Day for Fishing is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nice Day for Fishing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nice Day for Fishing are Rune Factory 3 Special, Sauna of the DEAD, Monster Harvest.
- Who developed Nice Day for Fishing?
- Nice Day for Fishing was developed by FusionPlay and published by Team17.
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