Russian Fishing 4

Russian Fishing 4 centers on patient fishing rather than a story: waters, weather and time of day affect fish behavior as you adjust tackle and technique. Because the game is described as free to play, you do not need to pay $0.00 at Steam just to test the basics. Multiplayer gives you another way to compete with others, while a single-player mode is also available for those who prefer to fish alone. At $0.00 on Steam, you can try Russian Fishing 4 for free first and decide whether to keep fishing.

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61%Steam Reviews92K reviews

Released: Nov 10, 2021

Fishing · Multiplayer · Free to Play · Simulation · Nature

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01About Russian Fishing 4

Russian Fishing 4 blends fishing simulation with RPG elements, letting you roam freely between waters. Choose float, bottom, spinning or sea fishing, cast from shore or a boat, and adapt your tackle and approach to fish, weather and time of day. Steam players rate it 61%% positive across 91,979 reviews. The Steam PC version supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, and Italian interface languages. Released November 10, 2021.

Credits

Developer

FishSoft LLC

Publisher

FishSoft LLC

Steam player reviews

61%positiveMixed91,979 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$0.002023-08-12 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	—	—
Traditional Chinese	Yes	—	—
English	Yes	—	—

Show 11 more languages

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
German	Yes	—	—
Russian	Yes	—	—
French	Yes	—	—
Spanish	Yes	—	—
Polish	Yes	—	—
Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	—	—
Dutch	Yes	—	—
Korean	Yes	—	—
Japanese	Yes	—	—
Turkish	Yes	—	—
Italian	Yes	—	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20

02Before you buy

Modes and languages

The Steam PC version has single-player and multiplayer modes. Its interface supports English, German and Simplified Chinese, among other languages.

Fishing and access

Fishing styles include float, bottom, spinning and sea fishing. The game is described as free to play.

03Frequently asked questions

Does it have a story?

No. The description explicitly says there is no storyline.

Can I fish from a boat?

Yes. You can fish from the shore or a boat and move freely around the waters.

Are there competitions?

Yes. The description mentions competitions, tournaments, ratings, qualifications and statistics.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

09/16/2023

My gambling addict friend said if I post a review on Russian Fishing 4 and it gets 350 likes and 150 Awards that he will buy me a case of beer and some vodka So I'm just gonna leave this hereShow moreShow less

0.4 hours at review438 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

01/15/2021

Avoid at all costs, RF4 staff bans innocent players: The game has great potential, but RF4 staff members act abusive when facing criticism, it is well known that they abuse their power regarding forum activity. Yesterday, I reported a bug that remained unfixed although they were told about it before christmas events patches. The bug led to my reel being heavily damaged, thus leading further to a loss of silver due to a lack of interest in fixing that bug. I reported it. The tone was ferm, no offensive language has been used, I can prove it with screenshots. They deleted my report and gave me a warning for aggresive behaviour. They did not address the bug, they ignored it. I am a paying player, I invested in this game, I support their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ attitude, so I won't take warnings from lazy devs. I wrote again in the criticism section (funny they have one, they are unable to take any kind of criticism). No offensive language, same ferm tone. Next thing, they issue an IP ban for my game account, not for my forum account. However, I am not the only RF4 player in my house, so 2 other players found themselves banned without doing anything. Game ban for forum criticism? Abusive, that is exactly what lazy game devs do. Are they lazy? Yup. They could easily find out that the two other players had other connections in the past, with different IPs and I was the only one to write and play from the same IP, constantly. Yet, they were too lazy to research that, resulting in a banning of innocent players. This is the end of RF4 for me, I will not support childish developers who had some unity tutorials on YT and believe they now own their game. They don't. Paying players do. I am not saying you should stop playing rf4, that is your choice. But I would be really careful where I invest my money, since RF4 has delivered nothing but bugs and aggressive attitude lately.Show moreShow less

809.8 hours at review422 people found this helpful

Written during Early Access

RecommendedSteam player

01/06/2024

Where did this come from, why is it here, and why is it the best game I've played this yearShow moreShow less

2.3 hours at review366 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

05/27/2025

I’ve spent over 1,000 hours in this game on their standalone launcher. After accidentally purchasing the wrong premium membership, I requested a refund. They granted it — and then banned me. According to their Terms of Use, refunding is not allowed. However, consumer law overrides such internal policies, which is likely why they processed it. Still, they chose to punish me with a permanent ban — despite years of playtime. I’ve never encountered a developer who penalizes users for exercising their legal rights. If you make a mistake here, the consequences are harsh. I recommend extreme caution before investing time or money.Show moreShow less

41.6 hours at review301 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

09/08/2018

Ah, Russian Fishing 4. An amazing game, but yet one that i advice you as a player to stay away from even after having played it for nearly 700 hours myself. However, the reason may not be what you would immediately expect. So let us not get ahead of ourselves, and instead first examine the pros and cons of the game: Pros ========== - Very realistic in most aspects. Probably the most realistic fishing simulator on the market at the moment - A long progression path that will keep you "busy" for a very long time (i did not reach the "end game", although i came close) - A large selection of gear and fishing specialization paths for you to work towards and explore - Pleasantly and beautifully made lake maps - Overall gives a feeling of actually fishing rather than playing a game - A highly complex system of variables to take into account when catching fish. Among them the standard weather, temperature and time but also things like line type, line size, leader size, attachment visibility, gear and tackle qualities, fish migration, bait preference changes and much more That all sounds great doesn't it? So why the negative review? Well, let us move on to the cons: Cons ========== - In several instances, the lake progression path does not make sense. This will often leave new players frustrated with broken gear fishing at places they do not have the correct gear for yet or simply no or few fish - In several instances, the crafting progression does not make sense. In RF4 you learn to harvest baits as well as making groundbait and lures. However, often in those progressions what you learn does not match the actual lake/fish availability. - In several instances, the store stock system especially will leave new players frustrated. Every lake has a certain set of stores in which many items will say "out of stock". For most items that actually means "will never be in stock", but the game does not explain this. Furthermore, crafting requirements often need components from particular lakes that do not fit with general player progression. In some cases when the player finally reaches a "checkpoint" in crafting, they have passed the need for that craft in the first place. - Bugs. Although this is an early access game, there is a large list of bugs, many of which are not recognized by the game management even though every "old" player know that they are present. These bugs include (but are not limited to) chat lag, IDs appearing instead of player names, store lag, selling lag, ghost bites, strange "fish got away" streaks that sometimes do not make any sense at all and much more So those were the general pros and cons of the game. But wait, there is more to be said about the game. You see, the game includes a place called the "penalty pond" or popularly called the "prison pond". This place is a specific "lake" map players are sent to if they for some reason have a falling out with the management of the game. Having a "falling out" with the management can entail everything from what you normally see moderated in other games by a profanity filter to posting something on the forum or discord that is not the the general liking of the management. When you are sent to the prison pond, you will get a notification that you have to catch X amount of weight of fish to get out again. Mind you, the fish in the prison pond (i am told) are all small, so having to f ex catch 10 kilos of fish may very well take a very long time. Not exactly a fun prospect in a game which a player originally decides to play for just that - fun! The philosophy behind the prison pond isn't all that bad though in my opinion. However, you may suddenly find yourself on the receiving end of the stick for a supposed violation that you do not understand or agree with. And at this point you will have no choice but to bow down and catch your small penalty fish effectively wasting your time and metaphorically speaking agreeing that you were rightfully penalized, or quit the game. It does not matter if you have played 10 hours, 100 hours or 1000 hours. The management are generally not open for debate. This leads me to one such example that happened to me yesterday after having happily played the game for 675 hours. We were several people chatting in a private channel and the debate was about the prison pond and what got you sent there. It was generally agreed that profane words were a sure way to get sent to prison pond, but that you could get away with misspelling or abbrevations of such words. Myself, having never gotten sent to prison pond and considering myself a loyal player, at some point replied with a harmless personal opinion which included a four letter foul word. I did not think anything of it until about an hour later i found myself being teleported to prison pond. After this i stated my case on the forum as a technical issue, since i felt that the issue must have been a wrongly automated action. I was abruptly shut down and told that i violated the terms of service with a blacklisted word in my sentence. I then read through the whole of Russian Fishing 4's EULA (yeah, i had not read it beforehand, these days how many actually read these very large agreements written in legal speak?). To my large surprise i found nothing in the EULA stating that the sentence i wrote was in violation of it. I then posted about this, highlighting the parts of the EULA that could have had relevance but did not in my case. However, instead of having an adult conversation with the moderators, my post was deleted. I then reposted it. It got deleted. This repeated itself 4-5 times until an administrator posted a reply stating that i asked for an explanation of the ban and i got it. Ofcourse the administrator posted one of my earlier posts instead of the post where i was pointing out that i was not in violation of the EULA which is terribly convenient. At the same time my posts were marked for moderation approval, which in other words meant that i was cut off. So there you have it. Russian Fishing 4 is a great game in many aspects, but it comes with a serious flipside to the coin. In its current state i can not recommend it, as you as a player might get hit with the same misfortune as i did, effectively wasting very many hours of otherwise enjoyable play. But do not just take my word for it here. Plenty of review have complaints like mine but nothing to back it up with. Luckily i saw the direction things were headed in, and captured screenshots of the conversations so that you as a potential new player will know what you will be up against before deciding to play: https://imgur.com/a/8opvA6F Some of the screenshots may be in the wrong order or overlapping slightly, and i apologize for that. Regardless, should you decide to play anyway you may want to have the above in mind. Good luck and have fun :)Show moreShow less

662 hours at review248 people found this helpful

Written during Early Access

Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/14/2026.