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Studio Ortica · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 83 % positive of 649 reviews, as of Oct 28

The loan shark is coming for you. Catch enough fish to repay your debt before it is too late. Go fish.

24 games that play like Loan Shark and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: DREDGE, lure and How Fish Is Made.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Fishing
  • Psychological Horror
  • Story Rich
  • Dark Humor
  • 3D
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Dark
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Loan Shark

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Loan Shark

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Dead Reset87 % positive of 764Shared: Story Rich · Interactive Fiction · Dark
  2. Mouthwashing95 % positive of 34,750Shared: Psychological Horror · Story Rich · Dark Humor
  3. 我的小鲨鱼97 % positive of 4,376Shared: Psychological Horror · Dark · Choices Matter
  4. Fishing The Abyss95 % positive of 424Shared: Fishing · Story Rich · Dark
  5. the static speaks my name81 % positive of 5,818Shared: Psychological Horror · Story Rich · Dark Humor
  6. Cat Goes Fishing93 % positive of 15,542Shared: Fishing · Psychological Horror · Underwater
  7. The Shore70 % positive of 1,777Shared: Psychological Horror · Story Rich · Horror
  8. Static Dread: The Lighthouse90 % positive of 1,431Shared: Psychological Horror · Story Rich · Dark
  9. The Trench85 % positive of 161Shared: Interactive Fiction · Dark · Horror
  10. Maneater86 % positive of 22,284Shared: Dark Humor · Underwater · Adventure
  11. Blood Orange: Definitive Edition93 % positive of 277Shared: Psychological Horror · Story Rich · Dark
  12. Port of Call87 % positive of 1,283Shared: Psychological Horror · Horror · First-Person

By look

Looks like Loan Shark

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Feed and Grow: Fish78 % positive of 20,933
  2. Content Warning93 % positive of 73,115
  3. Crabmeat86 % positive of 189
  4. Cat Goes Fishing93 % positive of 15,542
  5. Static Dread: The Lighthouse90 % positive of 1,431
  6. Voodoo Fishin'80 % positive of 877
  7. Mage Arena90 % positive of 17,855
  8. Professional Fishing75 % positive of 4,285
  9. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft93 % positive of 12,429
  10. Darkwood93 % positive of 22,514
  11. Death in the Water 283 % positive of 1,743
  12. How Fish Is Made94 % positive of 5,757

At a glance

What games like Loan Shark have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Loan Shark: Psychological Horror (16 of 24), Story Rich (12) and Fishing (10).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, 3 of them after Loan Shark (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: 我的小鲨鱼 (97 % positive of 4,376).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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