This little fishing game just reeled in a big win on Steam. Cornerpond is April’s top desktop buddy

While everyone’s still talking about Oblivion Remastered and Expedition 33, an indie game has quietly reached a new milestone. Cornerpond launched just over a week ago, quickly climbed Steam’s popular releases chart, and hasn’t stopped gaining new players since.

Catch the chill with Cornerpond

The desktop buddy trend might be cooling off a bit, but there’s still at least one new idle game a month catching attention on Steam. For April, that spotlight’s on Cornerpond, the ultimate cozy fishing experience. We’ve already had a frog hanging out on our screens, a tiny robot tending to its farm, even a cat that punches your taskbar every time you click or type. But this one just hits different – because really, what’s more relaxing than fishing while you work or study?

Cornerpond was created by solo developer foolsroom, who’s no stranger to game development. They’ve also worked on other titles like the roguelikes FLERP, Whackerball, and Mouselash, as well as the deckbuilding game Facehand. But Cornerpond is definitely their most successful project as it recently hit over 2,000 concurrent players on Steam.

Source: Cornerpond; Developer: foolsroom

It’s a cozy fishing game made to quietly hang out in the corner of our desktop. Our character fishes automatically, but every now and then, a big catch will need our attention, adding a nice little touch of interactivity.

Source: Cornerpond; Developer: foolsroom

We have five unique biomes and 100 types of snazzy-looking fish. As we collect and sell our catches, we can earn money, upgrade our gear, and customize our avatar – which, by the way, is just pixel-perfect. The game is priced at just $2.99, but there's also a demo available if you want to try it first.

• Steam
• indie games
• clicker, idle game
• PC