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Professional Fishing vs Sinking Simulator

Professional Fishing is a horror mmorpg game from MasterCode (2018) while Sinking Simulator is a horror sandbox game from Wicpar (2019).

Professional Fishing

2018 · MasterCode

6.5GamingPickz Score

Free

Steam: Mostly Positive

Sinking Simulator

2019 · Wicpar

7.0GamingPickz Score

$0.99

Steam: Very Positive

What each one is

Steam files Professional Fishing under Horror and Mmorpg. In contrast, it files Sinking Simulator under Horror and Sandbox.

Professional Fishing

Are you falling asleep with a rod? Never again! Professional Fishing will never let you fall asleep! Play an amazing fishing simulator and feel like a real angler! Create your own fishing club and compete with others!

Description from its Steam store page

Sinking Simulator

The sequel to the unfinished Sinking Simulator, now with a lot more POWER!!!! Witness your witty love of chaos and destruction sinking 2D ships and everything else on board!

Description from its Steam store page

At a glance

Professional FishingSinking Simulator
GamingPickz Score6.5/107.0/10
Steam ratingMostly Positive (76%, 4,260)Very Positive (85%, 4,411)
Critic aggregateNo aggregateNo aggregate
PriceFree$0.99
Install size9 GB1 GB
Steam Deckplayableplayable
Released20182019
DeveloperMasterCodeWicpar

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Professional Fishing vs Sinking Simulator, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Professional FishingHorror mmorpg game
    Sinking SimulatorHorror sandbox game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Professional FishingFishing, Free to Play, Simulation
    Sinking SimulatorSimulation, Sandbox, Indie

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Professional FishingScore 6.5 · 76% on Steam
    Sinking SimulatorScore 7.0 · 85% on Steam

    The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

  4. Content and scale

    Professional Fishing4,260 reviews · 4 add-ons · 9 GB
    Sinking Simulator4,411 reviews · 1 add-on · 1 GB

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Professional FishingFree
    Sinking Simulator$0.99

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

  6. On a Steam Deck

    Professional FishingPlayable
    Sinking SimulatorPlayable

    Valve's own Deck compatibility rating.

Across the rounds a number can settle, it is level at 1 each. Which one is "better" is the part no figure decides, so we leave it to what you want from the two.

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01000100PlayersPopularity

Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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  • Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
  • No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
  • A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
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Which to pick, by what you want

  • The higher-rated of the two: Sinking Simulator (GamingPickz Score 7.0)
  • The cheaper right now: Professional Fishing (Free)
  • Lighter on storage: Sinking Simulator (1 GB)

What they have in common

Both are tagged by Steam players with:

Free to PlaySimulationMultiplayerCasualSingleplayerIndiePsychological Horror

Where they differ

Professional Fishing is also

FishingMassively MultiplayerOpen WorldActionSportsRealistic

Sinking Simulator is also

SandboxDestructionPhysics2DNaval

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Professional Fishing is relaxed, easy to pick up. Sinking Simulator is relaxed, easy to pick up.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Professional Fishing and 0 for Sinking Simulator. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Professional Fishing and Sinking Simulator in scope?

Professional Fishing has drawn 4,260 Steam reviews, ships 4 add-ons and installs in 9 GB. Sinking Simulator has drawn 4,411 Steam reviews, ships 1 add-on and installs in 1 GB.

Is Professional Fishing or Sinking Simulator better?

By the GamingPickz Score, Sinking Simulator rates higher (7.0 to 6.5). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.

Which is cheaper, Professional Fishing or Sinking Simulator?

Professional Fishing is cheaper right now at Free, against $0.99. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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