Four-player crews playing How to Fish tend to land on the same arrangement pretty fast: whoever’s actually free that night hosts. Nobody wants the run to depend on one specific person being around every time. The problem is that How to Fish keeps the group’s progress on whichever PC hosted last, and only that machine’s save can pick the run back up - so rotating hosts means moving the save around, and doing that by hand every session gets old fast.

Why Rotating Hosts Is Awkward by Default

How to Fish writes your progress - gear, money, quest state, unlocked islands, every rare fish you’ve reeled in - to a Saves folder on the host’s PC as you play. Hand hosting duties to someone else and you’re manually grabbing .txt files out of %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Dazed Games\How to Fish\Saves, sending them over, and hoping nobody accidentally hosts from an older copy and undoes a session’s worth of catches.

Do that every week across a rotating group and it’s only a matter of time before two people’s copies drift apart.

How SaveSync Makes Rotation Automatic

SaveSync keeps the current How to Fish save synced across every player’s PC. Whoever hosted last syncs automatically when the session ends; whoever’s leading next just loads the current save and hosts. No one has to remember whose copy is newest.

  1. Everyone who might host installs SaveSync on PC.
  2. Create a sync group, select How to Fish, pick your save, and you’re done.
  3. Share it with your friends so the whole crew is pointed at the same save.
  4. Play. SaveSync syncs the save automatically when each session ends.
  5. The next host opens the current save and starts the trip - no manual transfers, no “wait, is this the latest one?”

With history tracking on top, you can also roll back if a session goes sideways - a griefed inventory, a bad gamble, whatever.

Rotate Freely

A rotating group is exactly the situation manual save copying breaks down in, and exactly where SaveSync earns its keep. Get SaveSync on Steam, set it up once, and anyone in the crew can skipper the next trip out.

New to SaveSync? Start with the How to Fish save sharing guide. Dealing with an absent regular host? See how to continue How to Fish when the host is offline.