Start with Getting started, Getting an upgrade and the normal quest achievements. Build Fully equipped on one weapon and save toward I am speed instead of buying randomly. Practise 360 no scope and the 5x killscore on ordinary creatures. Leave Bean, Handyman, Easy, Collector and Fishipedia until you understand the full route.
Use the official list below as a checklist, but do not attempt every goal immediately. Complete progression and equipment achievements during a normal run, practise trick shots on weak creatures, and leave speedrun or final-boss challenges for a prepared save.
Practical completion order
During normal progression
- Getting started: finish the first ordinary creature.
- Getting an upgrade: buy the first boat-engine improvement when travel becomes slow.
- Grillmaster: interact with the grill when the route introduces cooking.
- Dinnertime, Vacation and other quest achievements: finish them when their island NPCs are active so you avoid a later return trip.
- We are so back: complete the game once before planning a speedrun.
Build with your equipment purchases
- Fully equipped: choose one main weapon and apply every attachment to that weapon. Attachments spread across several weapons do not match the wording.
- I am speed: keep a separate engine fund and eventually buy the best boat engine.
- Everyone's dream: save dynamite for a controlled seagull attempt rather than throwing it during an unrelated boss fight.
Practise on weak isolated creatures
- Noob: use a direct kill without extra movement.
- Impressive: repeat one reliable trick input until the result reaches the official 5x requirement.
- 360 no scope: lower the target first, complete the turn and make the unscoped shot the kill. Use the focused walkthrough.
Leave these for a planned run
- Easy: prepare a high-damage boss setup before attempting the ten-second requirement.
- Bean: learn the full quest and island route before starting the one-hour finish.
- Handyman: treat the bare-hand final boss as a dedicated challenge, not a normal first completion.
- Collector and Fishipedia: track missing normal and drip creatures as separate collection goals.
Before retrying an achievement
Check whether the final action was performed by you, whether another player or hazard took the kill, and whether the requirement applies to one weapon, one creature or the entire run. Retry on a controlled target before assuming the achievement is broken.
Official achievement list
| Official name | Official description |
|---|---|
| Getting started | Kill your first creature |
| Drip | Kill a drip creature |
| Who stole my beer | Find and kill the culprit, and bring it to the lighthouse keeper |
| Noob | Get a kill with no kill score multiplier |
| Getting an upgrade | Upgrade the engine on the boat |
| Let me go | Get picked up by a seagull |
| Dinnertime | Catch dinner for the lady in the forest |
| Impressive | Get a 5x killscore multiplier |
| Grillmaster | Start the grill |
| GOLD GOLD GOLD | Unlock a legendary skin from the slot machine |
| 360 no scope | Kill a creature with a 360 no scope |
| Vacation | Help the tourist swim on his vacation |
| Fully equipped | Apply all attachments to a single weapon |
| I am speed | Buy the best engine for the boat |
| Yummy in my tummy | Eat a burnt creature |
| Terrorizing bird | Defend the scared islanders from the terrorizing bird |
| All in | Bet on green and win at roulette |
| Deadliest catch | Help the military defeat the big creature they located |
| We are so back | Finish the game |
| Competitive eating | Eat a mini-boss |
| I'm the bird now | Make the boat fly |
| Easy | Kill a boss within 10 seconds |
| Collector | Find and kill all the creatures |
| Rich! Millionaire | Sell something worth 100,000 or more |
| Everyone's dream | Kill a seagull with dynamite |
| Handyman | Defeat the final boss with your bare hands |
| Fishipedia | Find and kill all drip creatures |
| Bean | Finish the game within 1 hour |
Steam global completion percentages are not included because they change over time. This is a single consolidated reference page; it does not create individual achievement routes.
Sources
- S002 - How to Fish Global Achievements
Publisher: Steam Community / Valve Direct URL: https://steamcommunity.com/stats/4001890/achievements/?l=english Accessed: 2026-08-22 Supports: the count of 28, official achievement names, descriptions, and icon provenance.
- S001 - How to Fish on Steam
Publisher: Dazed Games / Valve Direct URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4001890/How_to_Fish/ Accessed: 2026-08-22 Supports: the game identity and the store's 28-achievement listing.