Electronic Woodfish

Electronic Woodfish is a casual idle game that keeps an electronic wooden fish on your Windows desktop. Click the fish or press a keyboard key to hear a knocking sound, trigger a bounce animation and gain “merit +1.” You can drag, scale, pin or hide the transparent fish while working, studying, watching videos or playing other games.

Tap and collect merit

Each tap adds merit. Current merit can be spent to open treasure chests, while your total accumulated merit is recorded permanently. You can adjust the volume, merit text, counting box, fish size and other display options.

After completing the novice guide, you can earn the opportunity to open merit chests by continuing to play. An ordinary chest costs 1,000 current merit points and may contain a tradeable wooden fish skin or accessory skin. New items do not automatically replace your current appearance. The listed drop probabilities are approximately 85% for Normal, 15% for Excellent, 7.5% for Rare, 2.5% for Epic and 0.1% for Legend.

Skins and accessories

The game includes hundreds of wooden fish and accessory skins with different themes. You can obtain new tradeable skins from your Steam inventory, then view, wear, lock and organize your collection in the Skin Warehouse. Accessories can be placed in front of or behind the fish, positioned in landscape or portrait orientation, and independently scaled from 0.2 to 2.0 times. Adjustments can be saved separately for each fish type, or scaled with the fish to preserve their relative position. You can also leave the fish unadorned.

The illustrated books show all fish and accessories, including items you have not obtained. They display ownership, item names and rarity, category collection progress and outstanding collection goals. Completing designated categories unlocks local, non-tradable collection skins and corresponding Steam achievements.

When you have duplicate tradeable items, you can craft 10 items of the same rarity into one random item of higher rarity. Fish and accessory skins can be combined, and the result may be either type. Default gifted skins, collection skins, legendary skins, currently worn items and items you have locked are excluded from automatic crafting.

Play with friends

Steam lobby rooms support up to four players. You can create a public or password-protected room, invite friends through Steam and chat. The game synchronizes fish skins and accessories, tapping animations and sounds, “merit +1” displays, and other players’ current merit totals.

Each player can position other players’ fish on their own desktop without changing where those fish appear on anyone else’s desktop. You can independently turn off other players’ fish, text, sound effects, merit numbers, chest-opening light effects or chat prompts.

Desktop options

The fish can be freely dragged, kept on top of other windows, flipped left to right or set to allow mouse clicks to pass through it. Other options include automatic startup, size and volume adjustment, toggles for the merit text and counting box, and a taskbar tray menu.