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Games like Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing

If Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fishing The Sky, Desktop Pet: DonEatFish and Skulker — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing: Strange Shores is a 1–4 player online fishing game you play from the corner of your desktop. Catch over 100 fish and unusual items, share catches, send emotes, and unlock new locations. Work, study, chat, watch... FISH!

2025IndieCasual3.99 USDWindowsby Banana Jam Games
Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Fishing The Sky

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    "Launch the hook to the sky! Capture the unknown!"Use a specially designed anti-gravity fishing rod to fish for strange flying creatures in the mutated clouds, establish a new era of Earth's ecological atlas, and explore the oddities of civilization in the joy of picking up trash.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Desktop Pet: DonEatFish

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    A cozy cat on your desktop while you goof off. Idle fish, crack chests, dress up—turn your desk corner into a wholesome little nook. Come adopt an adorable kitty.

    2026IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Skulker

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Skulker is a collectible fishing game where you roll dice to explore fishing spots. Support desktop wallpaper aquarium, switch the game and wallpaper at any time, Work and slack off at the same time.

    2025IndieRPGCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Weyrdlets 2.0 : Desktop Pets

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Work with your pet on the desktop, play with your friends in-game! Weyrdlets is a desktop pet game that blends productivity and play! Customize your pets and homes, hang out with friends, enjoy minigames, and let your pets keep you company on your desktop while you work or study through the day!

    2024SimulationCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. PONDLINGS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Catch, Collect and Care for Pondlings with unique colour, pattern, size and nature combinations! Personalise your tank with animated backgrounds, floorings and objects. Unlock Pond-Passes in-game to gain access to exciting fishing locations, each with special new Pondling types to collect!

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  6. Fish-Click Squad!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Fish-Click Squad! is a casual multiplayer idler where you purchase various aquatic creatures and nurture them to maturity with your friends through clicking and touching earning coins and rewards to unlock more fish and idle features! There is nothing happier than slacking with friends!

    2025IndieSimulationCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Welcome to Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi! This is a relaxing and enjoyable idle fishing game that can sit at the bottom or any corner of your screen, allowing you to enjoy a leisurely sea fishing time in your busy life.

    2025IndieRPGCasual4.79 USDSteam ↗
  8. Mango's Fisharium

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Mango’s Fisharium is a short incremental game about catching unique fishes and displaying them in the Fish Aquarium. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Strange Shores: Social Desktop 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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Strange Shores: Social Desktop 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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Strange Shores: Social Desktop 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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Strange Shores: Social Desktop 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing

How much does Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing cost?
Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing are Fishing The Sky, Desktop Pet: DonEatFish, Skulker.
Who developed Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing?
Strange Shores: Social Desktop Fishing was developed by Banana Jam Games.

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