Press kit · updated 2026-09-11
FISH.OS is an idle fishing game disguised as a 1997 operating system. Coming to Steam from ORCO Games.
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- Title
- FISH.OS
- Developer
- ORCO Games. Solo developed by Chase Chalker.
- Based in
- United States
- Genre
- Idle fishing, incremental, collectathon
- Platform
- PC (Windows) via Steam
- Release
- Full release end of Q4 2026. Wishlist open now.
- Price
- One purchase. No microtransactions, no ads, no store.
- Awards
- 1st place, Big Indie Pitch at SLICE 2026 (Seattle, September 2026)
- Steam app ID
- 4531630
- Steam page
- store.steampowered.com/app/4531630
- Website
- www.orco.cool/fish
- Press kit
- www.orco.cool/fish/press
- Discord
- discord.com/invite/MQbS3bGTHP
- Contact
- chase@orco.cool
Plain-text copy: factsheet.txt · descriptions.txt
For festival and event forms
Direct links, ready to paste. Each file is cut to the spec these forms usually ask for. Every link is permanent.
Preview image, square
1:1 profile cover. No text, UI or logos in the image.
High-res key art, text-free
For press releases, socials, event screens and print. No logos or text overlays.
High-res logo, isolated
No background, no shadow. The cursor and the click splash are part of the mark.
Gameplay reel, 15 seconds
Eight quick cuts, about two seconds each. No text or logo overlays. Silent, for your own bed.
Need a different crop, size or length? Email and it will be cut the same day.
Trailer and reel
Both are captured from the Steam build.
Screenshots
All 1920 × 1080 PNG, straight from the Steam build. Click for the full-size file.
Logos
The lockup is the primary logo. The mouse cursor clicking the final S and the blue splash are part of the mark, so please keep them. The fish mark and the wordmark on their own are secondary.
Fish mark, white
Fish mark, black
Steam app icon
ORCO Games logo
Key art
The Steam capsules, with the logo in. For a text-free version see the event assets above.
Main capsule
Header capsule
Library capsule, portrait
Social card
Descriptions
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FISH.OS is an idle fishing game disguised as a 1997 operating system.
FISH.OS is an idle fishing game that runs inside a fake 1997 desktop. There is no main menu, only windows. Catalogue 250 species, work a market that swings every thirty seconds, and run a fleet that keeps earning while your PC is off. Then format the drive and start again, faster.
FISH.OS is an idle fishing game disguised as an operating system that shipped in 1997. You do not open a game menu, you boot a desktop. Fishing is a window. The market is a window. So is the aquarium, the fleet manager, and a Minesweeper clone where the mines are sea urchins.
The loop is simple and deep in the way idle games get to be. Catch fish, sell them into a live market that moves every thirty seconds, spend the proceeds on rods and boats, and let the fleet earn while the machine is off. Duplicate catches fuse into things that should not exist and get equipped for buffs. When progress slows, you format the drive: a prestige that wipes the install and hands back a multiplier.
There are 250 species to index, a prestige tree to climb, and a desktop full of software that has no business being in a fishing game: Solitaire, a paint program, a music player, Fish 2048. One of them is hiding something. FISH.OS is a single purchase with no ads, no energy bars and no store, from solo developer ORCO Games.
Feature bullets
The desktop is the game. No menus. Minimise the whole OS and the fish keep biting.
250 species to index. Fuse duplicates into things that should not exist, then equip them for buffs.
A market that moves. Prices swing every thirty seconds. Timing the sell is the skill.
Earns while it is closed. The fleet works offline. Built for second-monitor play.
Format the drive. Prestige wipes the install and hands back a multiplier.
Software with no business being here. Solitaire, Fish 2048, a paint program, a music player, FishSweeper.
Pay once. No ads, no energy bars, no store.
Numbers and awards
FISH.OS shipped first on Roblox, where it has been live and iterated on since, and is being rebuilt natively for Steam. Plays and approval are live from Roblox. Session length is a 20-day average to 2026-08-23.
Contact and permissions
Chase Chalker, ORCO Games. chase@orco.cool. Also on the ORCO Discord.
Everything on this page is cleared for use in coverage, including monetised video, streams and printed material. No permission needed. Keys for review and playtest builds are available on request.