Bongo Cat is out here living its best life with 140K+ players hammering keyboards while the big boys fight for scraps. The free-to-play desktop cat punching your taskbar just won't quit, sitting at #5 on Steam's current charts with 152K peak today and a rock-solid 95% positive rating across 100K+ reviews. How to Fish, the physics-based co-op fishing chaos from Dazed Games, is holding its own at 58K concurrent after that wild launch where it smashed 260K+ peaks and a million copies in two days.

These two absurdly titled indies are proving the Steam charts don't care about marketing budgets or prestige. Bongo Cat launched March 2025 and has averaged 140K+ daily players for months straight, with updates like the Meowtiplayer mode keeping the bots out and the chaos in. How to Fish dropped August 20, hit private lobbies and 8-player support fast, and turned fishing into guns-plus-gambling friendslop that streamers couldn't stop clipping.

While CS2, Dota 2, and PUBG duke it out at the top with their usual numbers, these meme-fueled breakouts are the real story. One's a cat clicking for hats, the other's a boat crash turning into trickshot fishing — and both are clocking more active users than most AAA launches dream of right now.