Hey Anglers,
Today marks a very special day for us. Exactly 10 years ago, Fishing Planet was introduced to the world on Steam. What started as a small project by a tight-knit team, more like a family, has grown into something we never imagined. And now, our beloved creation is celebrating its very first jubilee!
Anniversaries are the perfect time to reflect on the journey: to look back at milestones, draw some conclusions, and set bold intentions for the future. So let’s rewind to the very beginning.
Some of you have been with us from the very start and remember just how small the game once was, and how much it has grown. And for those who joined more recently, it might come as a surprise that the very first location wasn’t Lone Star Lake. Back in August 2015, the original launch included Emerald Lake, along with Rocky Lake, Mudwater River, Neherrin River, Falcon Lake, Everglades, and the San Joaquin Delta. Later that year, Saint-Croix Lake arrived in October, followed by White Moose Lake in December.
Lone Star Lake didn’t appear until April 2016, with Kamiq Creek joining in August the same year. Quanchkin Lake opened its waters to players in January 2017.
2018 was a landmark year for European destinations. In December, we introduced Lesni Vila, Ghent-Terneuzen Canal, Tiber River, and Sander Baggersee Lake, followed by Weeping Willow Fisheries in March 2019. The adventure continued in 2020 with Blue Crab Island, Maku-Maku Lake, and the Marron River. Then, in 2021, came the stunning Amazonian Maze along with the ever-popular Congo River. The Selenge River in Mongolia arrived in June 2022, and just two years later, the long-awaited Ocean at Kaiji No Ri launched in June 2024, adding to the game a whole new level of challenge with saltwater fishing and Fishing Together with your buddies on the same boat.
In December 2024, we added something deeply meaningful, our home location in Ukraine, a small Christmas gift both to our players and ourselves. And just this summer, the breathtaking and luxurious Maldives made their debut on Steam and Epic Games, with other platforms soon to follow.
And speaking of platforms, there are already eight! Fishing Planet launched on PlayStation in 2017, followed by Xbox and UWP in 2019, iOS and Android in 2023, Epic Games in 2024, and Nintendo Switch in 2025 - making the game available on nearly every widely used platform around the world, just a download away!
From dozens of fishing techniques and mechanics to competitions, seasonal events, and hundreds of unique fishing items - sometimes it’s hard to believe all of this was created by a small, passionate team of fewer than 50 people.
And thinking about all of this, we can’t forget that it’s you - our incredible community - who make it all possible. All of you who love the game (and sometimes hate it too), who invest hundreds of hours mastering your skills and precision, who support us through feedback, bug reports, in-game purchases, and by being active in the community on social media - you’re the reason the world of Fishing Planet exists. Without you, none of it would have any meaning.
To give you a sense of how massive our shared Planet has become, we’ve gathered some statistics, and some fun facts for you. There are now over 35 million players across all platforms, and together you spent a total of 80,925,684 hours in the game last year. That’s 3,371,070 days, or 9,231 years. Yes, nine thousand two hundred and thirty-one years of fishing! For context, that’s more time than has passed since the very first human civilizations emerged on Earth as it was only 6000 years ago.
And just last year alone, players across all platforms caught 845,546,903 fish, that’s 845 million, weighing a total of 5,756,176,873 kilograms, or almost 13 billion pounds. To put that into perspective, that’s enough fish to fill 2,300 Olympic-sized swimming pools, it weighs as much as 960,000 adult elephants, or, if laid end-to-end (assuming an average of 40 cm per fish), it would form a line over 2.3 million kilometers long, enough to reach the Moon and back three times, with fish to spare.
Since the launch of Fishing Together, players have hosted 384,826 Fishing Together sessions across all platforms. We hope that sharing boats with friends made plenty of real friendships stronger too.
Over the past year, players across all platforms earned an incredible 565,461,512 Baitcoins collected through Daily Bonuses, the Reel of Fortune, Events, Competitions and Tournaments, Achievements, Leveling Up, Gaining Ranks, Twitch Drop rewards, and other in-game activities.
We also tried calculating how many Credits our hardworking anglers earned by catching and selling fish, but the numbers were simply astronomical, reaching into the quadrillions, which is a number with 15 zeros!
To help grasp just how massive that is: if you spent $1 million every minute, non-stop, you’d burn through $1.44 billion per day. And even then, it would take you over 1,900 years to spend $1 quadrillion. And if you stacked $1 quadrillion in $100 bills, the pile would reach over 1 billion kilometers high, which is enough to stretch from Earth to Saturn.
We hope these wild numbers bring a smile to your face and to keep the celebration going, we’ve prepared a little surprise many of you have asked for. We know some of you love the music tracks that played in the game menu over the years, so we’ve created a special YouTube video with all those tracks and gameplay in the background, so you can enjoy them anytime you feel nostalgic. Head over to our YouTube channel and give it a listen! And everyone who leaves a comment under that video on YouTube will have a chance to win one of the three Japan Ocean Packs!
But that’s not all. As some of you already know, an epic Twitch Drops campaign is live right now! You can earn 108,000 Credits, 25 Baitcoins, tons of exclusive fishing items, and access to 10 of the most-loved locations in the game!
And don’t forget about the Anniversary Premium Deals with 1, 6, and 12-month Premium bundles that include extra in-game currency, plus up to 60% OFF on Unlimited Licenses and Travel Cost in-game.
Stay tuned to our social media and keep celebrating with us, there’s more to come, including giveaways and anniversary activities on our Discord server and Facebook group. Follow us, stay with us, fish with us and continue shaping the future of Fishing Planet together with us.
With all our hearts and warmest wishes for what’s ahead.
Tight lines and see you on the water!