Screenside Fisher Achievements Guide

SCREENSIDE FISHER breaks away from the typical fishing genre by running quietly in the background while you work or browse, catching your attention only when a fish bites. It’s a refreshing twist that lets players engage on their own terms, sparking subtle excitement whenever action pops up on screen.

Your character can be positioned anywhere on your desktop, patiently fishing without demanding constant focus. When a fish bites, a prompt alerts you, allowing a return to a timing-based mini-game to reel it in, making for a leisurely yet rewarding experience.

Beyond fishing, the game invites you to cook dishes, sell your catch and meals, unlock six unique fishing rods, uncover new recipes, and dive into hidden secrets tied to shops, diaries, and the game’s deeper narrative layers.

To fully appreciate everything Screenside Fisher offers, unlocking all 30 Steam achievements unveils the full range of activities and challenges. Achievements mark progress and uncover layers to the gameplay and story.

SCREENSIDE FISHER Achievements

The Sea Beneath the Screen

Requirement: Catch your first fish.

Simply catching your very first fish triggers this achievement, guiding you into the core gameplay loop of patient waiting and timely action.

Let Me Cook

Requirement: Cook your first dish.

After catching fish, experiment with the cooking system and craft your first dish to earn this milestone.

stonks

Requirement: Sell a fish or dish for the first time.

Take your catch or prepared meal to the shop and sell it to unlock this achievement, marking your entry into the game’s economy.

Getting the Hang of It

Requirement: Catch 10 fish.

Accumulate a total of 10 fish catches as you continue fishing to unlock this achievement.

Seasoned Angler

Requirement: Catch 50 fish.

Pushing past beginner status, catch 50 fish overall to earn this recognition.

Pro Angler

Requirement: Catch 100 fish.

Reach a milestone of 100 fish caught to claim the title of Pro Angler.

Fisherman’s Log

Requirement: Add 10 species to the Fish Catalog.

Discover and log at least 10 unique fish species to start filling your Fish Catalog.

Below the Surface

Requirement: Add 25 species to the Fish Catalog.

Expand your catalog by registering 25 fish species, encouraging deeper exploration and patience.

Into the Depths

Requirement: Add 50 species to the Fish Catalog.

Halfway to completion, catalog 50 different fish species to track your growing collection.

Researcher of the Electronic Sea

Requirement: Complete the Fish Catalog.

This achievement requires you to have every fish registered. Note that enabling Developer Mode may block achievement unlocks.

Recipe Book

11. Recipe Book

Requirement: Add 10 dishes to the Recipe Catalog.

Discover and add ten unique dishes to your Recipe Catalog as you experiment with ingredients and cooking.

Quite the Spread

Requirement: Add 25 dishes to the Recipe Catalog.

Grow your catalog to include 25 different dishes, mixing various recipes to unlock this achievement.

Seafood Buffet

Requirement: Add 50 dishes to the Recipe Catalog.

This milestone requires registering fifty unique dishes, showing your culinary range.

Guess I’m a Chef Now

Requirement: Complete the Recipe Catalog with all 94 dishes.

For full cooking mastery, register all 94 dishes listed in the catalog.

Is This Even Edible…?

Requirement: Cook dish 94, titled “404 not found.”

This unique dish is created by cooking a combination of ingredients that do not match any standard recipe, unlocking this mysterious entry.

Once mixed, it produces dish number 94, “404 not found.”

Omakase

Requirement: Make all 15 types of sushi (dishes 34–48).

Sushi recipes follow the formula: Fish + Rice + Wasabi.

For example, to craft Salmon sushi, combine Salmon + Rice + Wasabi.

Create all 15 sushi dishes ranked from 34 through 48 to earn this achievement.

Salmon + Rice + Wasabi

You need to make all 15 sushi dishes from 34 through 48.

Five Stars!

Requirement: Earn five stars in the cooking mini-game with a score of at least 95.

The cooking mini-game consists of 3 rounds where you stop a moving arrow as near to the center of the target zone as possible.

A combined score close to 100, such as 34 + 33 + 33, secures a five-star rating needed for this achievement.

Order Up!

Requirement: Complete a Special Order at Shop 7.

Special Orders unlock after registering at least 4 dishes in the Recipe Catalog. Head to Shop 7 under “Today’s Orders” and fulfill the requested dish.

Lucky Black Cat

19. Lucky Black Cat

Requirement: Reach Luck level 5.

Keep improving your Luck stat until you achieve the maximum level 5.

Tools of the Trade

Requirement: Collect all 6 fishing rods.

Acquire every one of the six fishing rods offered in the game to unlock this achievement.

Motion Sickness

Requirement: Shake the shop window back and forth for about 2 seconds.

Grab the shop window and move it side to side rapidly for around two seconds. No fishing skills are necessary here.

Garbage Disposal

22. Garbage Disposal

Requirement: Deliver a 0-star or 1-star dish at Shop 7.

Visit Shop 7 and hand in a dish rated with 0 or 1 star, a contrast to striving for perfect cooking results.

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23. UNSURFACABLEELECTRONICSEA-N/A

Requirement: Unlock Apsu’s Shop by catching fish 87, “𒀊𒍪,” with 5 stars.

Catching fish number 87 and achieving a 5-star result will unlock the specialized Apsu’s Shop.

i can fix him

24. i can fix him

Requirement: Unlock Lugal’s Shop.

Catch either the Sea urchin (fish 61) or the Fancy sea urchin (fish 62) to gain access to Lugal’s Shop.

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Catching either one will unlock Lugal’s Shop.

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Requirement: Enter the Konami Code in Lamu’s Shop.

Navigate to the last underwater shop page (page 8) and input the classic code:

↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

This will unlock Lamu’s Shop and its related content.

Chatterboxes

Requirement: Hear everything every shop NPC has to say.

Fully engage with all NPC dialogues across every shop — a task that rewards patience and attention to detail.

Avoid skipping dialogue as this achievement requires hearing every line from each shop NPC.

Her Name

Requirement: Complete the Tiamat event and enter her name at the deep-sea terminal.

To unlock this event, first gain access to Shops 4, 5, and 6, then complete dialogue with all seven NPCs involved.

Search the diary for references to Tiamat and find her name to enter at the deep-sea terminal.

This segment delves into Mesopotamian mythology, connecting characters like Tiamat and Apsu that add depth to the game’s story.

Maneki-neko

𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 / 𒀭𒌓𒌈

Once you have the name, enter it at the deep-sea terminal.

The game’s dialogue and character names point toward Mesopotamian mythology, where Tiamat is connected to Apsu. This also explains why these names show up around the game’s deeper story.

28. Maneki-neko

Requirement: Scratch the lottery ticket 100 times.

Locate Malli in the diary to unlock the lottery feature, then scratch lottery tickets one-hundred times to unlock this achievement.

New tank. New aquarium.

29. New tank. New aquarium.

Requirement: Buy a fish tank.

First, find Ansekura in your diary to access fish tank options, then purchase a fish tank to earn this achievement.

This isn’t a baking game…

30. This isn’t a baking game…

Requirement: Make 5 five-star bread.

Use 1 Flour to cook bread, then repeat until you’ve earned five stars on five separate loaves.

Consistently achieving high cooking scores makes this achievement straightforward.

Summary: 1 Flour → Cook → Five-star Bread (repeat 5 times)

Completing these steps rewards you with the full set of Screenside Fisher achievements, revealing the richness beneath its deceptively simple surface.

The most challenging milestones revolve around completing fish and recipe catalogs, special events like the Tiamat storyline, and unique shop interactions that deepen your immersion.

That covers all 30 achievements in SCREENSIDE FISHER. You can unlock most of them naturally as you catch more fish, cook new dishes, and fill both catalogs, while a few require specific shops, diary searches, or hidden actions.

The harder ones are the Fish Catalog, Recipe Catalog, Tiamat event, and shop-related achievements.