Steam app 3751730 · updated 13 Sep 2026, 00:05 UTC
The loan shark is coming for you. Catch enough fish to repay your debt before it is too late. Go fish.
137 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
14 months, August 2025 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
29 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
21 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
11 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
Loan Shark was released on 8 Aug, 2025.
This game contains mild depictions of self-harm and suicide. The former is integral to the narrative and is not optional, while the latter can easily be avoided as it's a secret within the game. Alcohol consumption is present, with the player able to drink multiple beers during gameplay.
| Language | Full audio |
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| English | |
| Italian |
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16 achievements in total.
27 developer announcements, Jun 2025 to Sep 2026 · times in UTC
Added FPS for the guy with a 5090 and 100% GPU usage.
Patch notesHello there, anglers!In case you missed it, the demo for our new horror game, The Old Flesh of Nuraga, is part of Steam Next Fest.The demo will stay up after Next Fest ends as well, but now is a great time to try it out and leave a review…
Studio OrticaHello there anglers,I'm very excited to be writing this post. Loan Shark has been nominated for Best Italian Debut Game at the Italian Video Game Awards.We'll be attending First Playable, the Italian industry meetup for game developers…
Studio OrticaHello there anglers,we want to share a small but exciting news: starting from today, Loan Shark is included in the Italian Hidden Gems, a bundle gathering a variety of games made in Italy.You can buy Loan Shark and the other games at a…
Studio OrticaHello there fisherpeople,Our new horror game, Birds Watching, is out. You can buy it at a launch discount price, review it, and let us know what you think. If you liked Loan Shark, its horror-comedy, it's simple mechanics, you'll probably…
Studio OrticaHi everyone,We’ve got something new to share with you.Our next game, Birds Watching, launches on March 6, 2026.It’s a short, narrative-driven horror experience where you play as the last human on Earth, long after the world has burned to…
Nicola_DauBig (and slightly unreal) news: Loan Shark, our first game ever, is now on Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X/S! 🎉To celebrate, we put together a brand-new trailer, feast your eyes:The trailer was conceived, shot, and edited by the incredible…
Studio OrticaHello there fisherpeople!Now that we're reaching the end of the Autumn Sale and of our first major discount for Loan Shark (let's wave our fishings rods for the newly indebted anglers out there), we want to keep the boat afloat with a huge…
Studio CarotaHello everyone,We finally have good news for AMD users! As we reported earlier, AMD driver update 25.8.1 introduced a serious issue that caused invisible or flashing textures and made Loan Shark unplayable for many of you.The fix is now…
Studio CarotaHi folks! This patch fixes a small bug where the loan shark's timer would reset to 45 Minutes whenever it ran out, allowing people to "get to port" using the boat and waiting, something that should be impossible.Some poeple previously…
Patch notesLoan Shark has been nominated for the DevGAMM Community Choice Award! 🏆The team is currently working on a content update, adding new endings and quality-of-life improvements. Thanks to your support, development can continue and the game can…
Studio CarotaA game breaking bug preventing you from catching any fish was introduced with the latest update. This patch fixes that issue!
Patch notesHi folks! This update tries to fix some issues people have been encountering where the underwater camera jitters uncontrollably. We hope this will make the game more enjoyable!
Patch notesWhen we released Loan Shark, we thought it would be a small, quiet launch, just a fun way to learn how to publish our first game on Steam. We had no budget, no publisher, and only 3 months to make it. Honestly, we didn’t expect much.But…
Studio CarotaHi folks! This patch should just fix some rendering bugs some people are having, including the game defaulting to the OpenGL renderer even though the game doesn't support it. I'm still gathering info on the camera spinning so fast it…
Patch notesHey everyone,We just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. Loan Shark is our very first game release, and we honestly had no idea what to expect. Seeing the incredible response from all of you has blown us away:4,600+ copies sold in…
Studio CarotaSome players weren't able to select the main menu options with their mouse. That should be fixed now!
Patch notesTL;DRProblem: AMD driver update 25.8.1 breaks Loan SharkFix: Roll back to previous AMD driver, or wait for AMD’s next updateHelp speed up the fix by reporting the issue…
Studio CarotaDear fisherpeople.We didn't believe we would write this new announcement so close to the previous one about the thousand milestone. Yet here we are, celebrating another major (and unexpected) accomplishment of Loan Shark.As many of you may…
Studio CarotaHey everyone!We just published a new article on our devlog: 📝 "Using Daily Notes for lightweight, indie-friendly Game Design documentation"It's a behind-the-scenes look at how we design Loan Shark as a two-person team.Instead of using a…
Studio CarotaFisherpeople, we made it!Much to our surprise, we caught a lot of wishlists in our net during the night, and we finally got to 1000 wishlists here on Steam!This is huge for us, for Studio Carota. Loan Shark was meant to be a simple…
Studio CarotaHello there fisherpeople!We are hitting a small but significant milestone for the growth of our studio: the official Discord server for Studio Carota is open!What Discord server?Actually, it has been open for a couple of months; we simply…
Studio OrticaHello there fisherpeople! Let's see what we caught in our net.Release DateSalty news for y'all: the Loan Shark is coming for payback on 8th August 2025!Get ready for a fishing trip amidst water, debt, and blood.New TrailerTo celebrate the…
ProfCucaHello there, fellow fisherpeople!Today it's big catch day: the Loan Shark demo has been downloaded more than 1000 times.We're also going strong with more than 400 wishlists in the bucket already. This huge increase in less than 15 days was…
ProfCucaHey everyone!We wanted to take a moment to say a big thank you to all of you who discovered, visited, and wishlisted Loan Shark during Steam's Fishing Fest. This was our first-ever Steam event as developers, and the experience gave us a…
Nicola_DauHello there!The demo for our psychological horror game is out.If you want to get your feet wet in sea and blood, give it a try and let us know what you think about it!- Studio Carota
ProfCucaHave you ever felt like you were choking from stress and anxiety while staring at an obstacle you know you cannot overcome?That's what Loan Shark is about. You play as a professional angler in debt to the mob. During a night of work on your…
ProfCucaWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default Renderer. | Loan Shark.exe | --rendering-driver vulkan | any |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
| Root | Folder | Files |
|---|---|---|
WinAppDataRoaming | Loan Shark | *.tres and below |
WinAppDataRoaming | Loan Shark/dialogic/saves/Default | *.txt and below |
WinAppDataRoaming | Loan Shark | *.cfg and below |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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