How Fish Is Made

Short narrative horror about a sardine inside a grimy machine

Wrong Organ, Johanna Kasurinen, Jeffrey Tomec, Martin Halldin · Published by Wrong Organ, CRITICAL REFLEX · Released Jan 14, 2022

Indie

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 95% of 6,165
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 91% of 56 in 30 days
Players: 4; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Last update on Steam: 1 year ago; Dec 28, 2024
Minimum PC: 470 GTX; 8 GB RAM · 0.7 GB disk; Full requirements

What is How Fish Is Made?

This free, single-player narrative horror game follows a sardine facing a choice between going up or down. You flop through the machine’s passages, speak with other fish, and decide whether to help or mislead them. The expansion, The Last One and Then Another, shifts to rolling around and absorbing flesh and fish.

For you if...

+you enjoy surreal stories that mix horror with dark comedy
+you prefer brief games with multiple endings

Not for you if...

−you avoid disturbing subjects and imagery of clustered holes
−you want action-focused gameplay rather than conversations and exploration

What players say

95% of 6,165 reviews are positive · 91% of 56 in the last 30 days

Players praise the grotesque atmosphere and say the story leaves them with things to think about after finishing. Reports about the rolling expansion include severe lag and a softlock.

Screenshots and trailer

How Fish Is Made system requirements

Minimum: 470 GTX, 8 GB RAM, 0.7 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 750 MB available space
DirectX: Version 10

Does How Fish Is Made have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does How Fish Is Made run on Steam Deck?

Verified Yes, Verified by Valve: it works on Steam Deck out of the box.

All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Steam features: Family Sharing
Languages: Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian.

Does How Fish Is Made use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam