À Deriva
press kit

Fact sheet

Title

À Deriva (Portuguese for "adrift")

Developer

G. Studios — cheeetz, solo developer

Based in

Santa Catarina, Brazil

Release date

October 14, 2026

Launch offer

40% off for the first ten days

Platform

Windows (PC), on Steam

Genre

Idle / cozy fishing, desktop companion

Languages

English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese

DLC at launch

Pirate's Pack — a pirate parrot, the Flying Dutchman boat and a new pirate tricorn

Store

store.steampowered.com/app/5284480

Website

cheeetz.github.io/a-deriva

Press contact

aderivagame@outlook.com

Short description

A fisherman lives on your computer's taskbar. He fishes on his own while you work, from the Araguaia to the sea off Noronha. You glance over now and then, click when one bites, and buy a bigger boat. It also runs as a wallpaper.

About the game

Most fishing games ask you to stop everything and play. À Deriva does the opposite: it was made to live alongside your day. It sits on your screen, as a thin strip above the taskbar or as a wallpaper behind your icons, and keeps fishing on its own while you work, study or play something else. If you happen to be watching when a fish bites, one click makes the catch better. If you're not, the fish goes into the hold anyway.

The places are all Brazilian: the Araguaia, the Rio Negro, the flooded forest of Furnas, the coast of Santa Catarina and the sea off Fernando de Noronha. The weather changes on its own, the rain rolls in slowly, night falls, and each place has its own animals, its own rare phenomena and a monster hiding in the deep.

Every now and then a stork flies by carrying a hat. Click it and the hat is yours: a real Steam item, torn, worn or new, that you can wear, trade or sell on the Community Market.

Key features

• Two ways to live on your screen — a thin strip above the taskbar, or a full wallpaper behind your desktop icons, with the icons still working as usual.
• It plays itself — the fisherman never stops; a well-timed click just makes the catch better.
• Five Brazilian places — from the Araguaia river to the sea off Fernando de Noronha.
• A world that lives on its own — day and night, slow rain, storms, the blood moon, the pororoca tidal bore, shooting stars.
• Wildlife and companions — jabiru storks, a napping jaguar, and companions like the caiman, the giant otter, the river dolphin and the turtle.
• Hats delivered by stork — real Steam inventory items in three conditions, tradeable on the Community Market.
• A monthly championship — every catch scores points on a public leaderboard; the prize is a celestial hat no stork delivers.
• Made to behave — soft sound by default, never steals focus, lets your screen sleep. No ads, no energy bar, no notifications asking you to come back.

Video

Screenshots

1920×1080 PNG, straight from the game. Click a caption to open the full-size file.

Animated GIFs

Logo and key art

Wide key art, 3840×1240: download.

About the developer

À Deriva is made by one person: cheeetz, an independent developer from Santa Catarina, Brazil. By day he works in customer support; the game was made in his free time and on a lot of nights when he should have been sleeping. It's his first game. The studio name, G. Studios, comes from a Discord server he shares with the friends who tested the game from its very first version.

"I've always loved fishing with my dad, but we rarely got the chance. Here in Brazil we have a saying: 'Stressed out? Go fishing.' One day I thought: if I couldn't go fishing, fishing could come to my screen."

The world was built with the help of AI tools and a lot of material that other creators make available — music, sounds, art. Every one of them is in the game's credits, even those who don't ask for credit.

Contact and keys

For interviews, review keys or anything else, write to aderivagame@outlook.com. Steam curators can also reach the game through Curator Connect.

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