Cute, a little sick and somehow comfy.
No jumpscares.

How fish is made is a surreal atmospheric walking simulator or more accurately flopping simulator that takes less than 1hr including the Katamari dlc. I dont fully understand it all but there is a deeper meaning which leads me to only have one question.. up or down?

Fih💔(this review was supposed to end here)

Peak absurdist experience. I now relish in my innate contempt for fish and feel deeply validated by it, especially considering they wouldn’t let me pick the “consume” option during that succession of scenes from the extension.

All in all, a rather introspective experience that requires very little appeal to logic, which in itself strikes me as commendable, since I usually rely on both logic and introspection in order to derive enjoyment from a game. The game is easy to navigate, and the only demanding part is the ruminating bit (obviously optional). Or you could just pull up some fancy and arbitrary statement such as “The game blends absurdist philosophy with literary nonsense.” and call it a day. That works too.

One could aptly state (providing the "one" in question did bother to find whatever meaning there is to derive from here) that "How fish is made" is a not-so-very-extensive-but-effective-nontheless lecture on choices and whether or not your initial purpose comes to fruition without it getting altered by external intervention, and there are plenty of opinionated fish in the see (or rather, machine) waiting to bend you to their will. The purpose here consisting on whether you wish to go "up" or "down".
Frankly, it didn't even occur to me what the game was trying to get across not even when the very first fish presented me with the same question from the beginning and stated its opinion beforehand. It dawned on me when another fish later on assumed my decision should have changed after having interacted with each and every one of the fishes. It, in fact, did not. I've chosen to go "down" because there was this one song from The Pretty Reckless, "Goin' Down"; it's been on my mind ever since I've started playing and I just stuck with it until the very and.
So if there's anything that I should have learned today is that I'm pretty immune to peer pressure (and.. pretty reckless).