How to Fish Community and Discord

The official How to Fish Discord

The How to Fish Discord is run by Dazed Games, the small studio building the physics-based co-op fishing game. It is a two-person team, co-founder Melvin Olsson and Carl-Vilhelm Johansson, so the direct line to the developers is unusually open. The server was created on July 13th, 2023, and as of 2026-08-28 it holds 32,394 members with roughly 7,070 online at any time. Its own listing describes the activity level as "like a busy coffee shop," so expect steady conversation rather than an empty room.

You will not find a bare invite code on these official pages, but the server is linked directly from the studio site at dazed.games and from the game's Steam patch notes as a discord.gg link. The server is listed under the Gaming, Entertainment, and Game Developer categories, and English is the only supported language. Because it is the studio's own community hub, joining it is the single fastest way to reach the devs and other players. If you only join one How to Fish space, make it this one.

What you can actually do in the server

Dazed Games lists four headline reasons to join: follow development of How to Fish, join the occasional playtest, chat with the devs, and suggest new ideas. Playtests are the standout feature. The team hosts them inside the server, so if you want to try the game before a release and help shape it, you join and apply for a playtest slot there. The devs also post behind-the-scenes looks at what they are working on next.

Beyond that, the server splits conversation into topic channels the way Discord servers do. There is a dedicated bug report forum, a suggestions chat and forum, and a newer channel just for fanart that the devs added in Patch 1.0.10 (Aug 27). If you have art to share or a feature idea, there is a specific place for each. Keeping requests in the right channel gets you a faster answer, and the devs read them directly.

The studio explicitly routes several kinds of questions to the server rather than to email. Their FAQ tells players to report bugs in the bug report forum, to post feature ideas in the suggestions channels, and to save any general email contact for other matters. In practice that means the Discord, not an inbox, is the front door for almost everything about the game. Read the site FAQ first for the common answers, then use the matching channel for anything it does not cover.

Steam Community and the other official channels

The Discord is not the only official space. How to Fish has a Steam Community hub at steamcommunity.com/app/4001890, home to the discussions board, screenshots, artwork, and community guides. As of 2026-08-28 the Steam group chat showed 191 people and the game had 130,537 players in-game, and the title sells for $7.99 (prices change). The Steam hub is usually where patch notes appear and where the largest guide collections live.

Dazed Games also runs a set of social accounts for lighter updates: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky, all linked from dazed.games alongside the Discord. These are good for trailers, clips, and announcements, but the Discord and the Steam hub are where the actual back-and-forth happens. For real questions and troubleshooting, favor the two community hubs over social-media replies. The social feeds are best treated as a way to stay aware of releases.

Getting help with bugs, bosses, and achievements

The community channels double as a support desk. If the game fails to launch, the recurring "error code: 51" that players have reported after updates is a common example, and the fix guides live in the Discord. Patch 1.0.9 (Aug 24) added an in-menu Steam connection debug and told players that if the Steam relay text turns red, they should check the #common-bugs channel for connection fixes. The devs also point players there for save-file corruption and crash-on-equip problems.

On the gameplay side, the community is where the deep knowledge sits. The studio says the Discord has "a lot of tips & tricks" for defeating bosses and finishing achievements, and the Steam guide shelf backs that up. There are 28 achievements in total across the game's five islands and both endgame bosses. Community guides such as Charlie Pork's "All 28 Achievements + Post-Game Route," SneakyDingo's "Lure Guide," garbagemuffy's "Bait & Fish Guide," and loomy's "Bean 1.0.5 Guide (Solo)" walk through the trickiest ones, so if you are chasing an achievement like Handyman or Bean, start there.

Those guides also point to the parts of the game that reward planning rather than reflexes: knowing which lure or bait matches which fish, and understanding the mechanics behind the rarer achievements. The Steam guide descriptions call out details like shootable dynamite and the roulette-table math as the kind of tricks the community has documented. Between the Discord's help channels and the Steam guide shelf, most of the game's harder moments already have a written answer, so searching first usually beats asking cold.

The community is also the place to find people to play with. How to Fish is a 1-4 player co-op game, and players routinely post in the Steam discussions and the Discord looking for teammates. If your own friends are offline, the server works as an informal matchmaking board. Posting your region and timezone helps others find you quickly.

Staying current: difficulty and recent patches

Because the community follows development closely, it helps to know what has changed recently. Patch 1.0.9 introduced selectable difficulty in both the main menu and in-game. Easy mode gives all creatures 25% less health and 50% less damage, while Hard mode gives them 25% more health and 25% more damage, with the default matching the older balance. Patch 1.0.8 was a small bugfix patch, mainly correcting PlayStation controller glyphs and the fire sizzling sound volume.

Patch 1.0.10 was the biggest update yet. It added features like weapons and tools getting cleaned from cooking when dipped in water, and ground items persisting between sessions (up to 64 total, prioritizing weapons, tools, quest items, and creatures). It also nerfed the anglerfish and fixed a range of multiplayer and save bugs. Patch notes post in both the Steam hub and the Discord, so following either one keeps you up to date.

Community rules and what the devs will and won't do

The studio's FAQ sets clear expectations for the community. You are welcome to stream, record, and upload How to Fish gameplay to YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, or similar services, and you may monetize those streams and videos. That makes the game creator-friendly with no special permission needed to post content.

There are limits worth knowing before you ask. Dazed Games does not hand out free game keys to anyone, including Steam curators and streamers, so requests in the server will be declined. The studio is also not hiring, with no internships and no dedicated playtester roles beyond the open playtests hosted in the Discord. On platforms, console and Mac versions are planned, but as of 2026-08-28 there is no announced date. For anything actionable, the devs prefer the Discord forums over email, which keeps bug reports and suggestions organized where the whole community can see them.