Dredge is, at least on the Surface a simple game where you go out fishing around an archipelago with a few distinct biomes with associated sealife.

But as you start to catch, sell, upgrade your little boat to catch elsewhere, bigger, more & soo on,
You start to notice things, odd things. Some of the fish are a little peculiar, the locals more so,
And in the darkness, not everything is what you think or even where you thought it was.
“I’m sure there wasn’t a rock there earlier!”

It peaks your interest, so you Dredge deeper, and with little warning your sailing into a mystery that you probably should have left in the deps of the sea.

The gameplay is simple, and yet very fun, and although it can get (without giving anything away) a little/lot odd, try not to Panic !!!



🔸 The Fishing
It requires you to find a spot, have the corresponding type of equipment (Shallow, Costal, Oceanic n so on) and although it will slowly reel in a catch from that spot it can be advanced faster via a quicktime minigame.
☐ Each species has its own variation. With sweet spots to advance pulling in your catch faster, failing will lower the line.
☐ Eash spot has a limited supply and a chance of catching one of those, peculiar specimens.
☐ All are locationally depended, hence having the required equipment to pull em up. You can swap them in and out once you own them.
☐ The respawn after a while, so no worries if you catch everything..
There are also Nest that can passively catch as you travel and Crab Pots that can be left wherever you want, that over time catch other variations of sea life.

It’s a repetitive yet enjoyable enough experience that I quite happily fell into a pattern of heading out early dawn, heading to a new collection of islands and seeing what I could find to fish.
Taking the haul back and selling it to get other lines and ship upgrades. All the while bumping into the little settlements, and other things that's dotted around this archipelago.

The catch is that Panic I mentioned, and how it's affected by the oddities around you, lack of sleep, and various other things that I will let you discover, or in some cases, let them discover you!



🔹 The Boat
The inventory/hull is a grid system.
☐ Some areas can be fitted with corresponding types of equipment and the rest is for the odd shapes of the sea life you haul onboard and it turns into a form of Tetris with Fish.
☐ You also have to be careful piloting your little boat as contact with things like rocks can damage a section. If anything is in that section it can be lost over the side or in the case of equipment rendered inoperable until that cell is fixed at a drydock.
☐ As you upgrade your boat you can get more hull space, along with more area for equipment.
☐ There are a collection of tools and abilities that you can unlock that All have a use
☐ With different combinations of lines, nets, engines and lights there is a simple level customization that lets you arrange things as you want,
Although there will come times when you will have to make tough decisions about what you keep onboard.
Either before you head out withthings like the limited rod space’s,
Or once you're out there and you have too much, what do you keep? The prized catch, the materials to upgrade your hull or the strange I'm not gonna tell you that! from the erie darkens of the sea’s depths.

Excluding very specific times, the Boat is the only thing you see of your character and as such becomes it.
This plucky little thing has been to places it really shouldn't have under my command and has done well in circumstances that would see others turned to piles of flotsam.
I love this little thing. The steady sound of it’s chugging yet soothing engine taking us all over the place, discovering mysteries, solving puzzles and fishing the seas into extinction.



🔸 The Mystery/Story
I’m not going into it in any detail, it would spoil too much.
I will say it was a pleasure to discover more and kept me intrigued and guessing with each new discovery.
I wasn’t just upgrading the Boat for profit and fun, but so I could find more ‘clues’ (for lack of a better word) to the mystery I had crashed into.



🔹 Other Notable things:
☐ The sound design as you can imagine is mostly sea based noises, the mechanical clunks and bangs from your fishing equipment, and ambient noises around the different biomes.
However there are other things out there that, as you're focused on fishing or traveling you will want to keep an ear out for.
It can often be subtle/missed and even instill some of that Panic on you as well as your character.

☐ There is a Bestiary for all the types of sea life and there ‘variations’ that I just had to complete.

☐ A simple yet welcome customisation for your Boat and various little flags for it, once you find them.

☐ Some lovely touches that bring the world to life. Dolphins skimming the surface near your Boat as you motor along. Whales breaking the surface out at sea, sometimes feeding on something else!

☐ There is no voice acting. The characters make little noises, grunts, sighs, tuts… that along with their image give you enough of an impression to get an idea of their personality. But there will be a lot of reading if you want the story, just an FYI.

☐ The only issues I had, and it's a little one was with a tiny area within the “Pale Reach” expansion.
It’s a combo of the 3rd person camera view & the high walls of ice that very rarely catch the camera and can cause clipping making it hard/impossible to see your boat for a second and causing some unnecessary moments of squirming as I tried not to crash.
It's not applicable to most of the area, just an odd tight passage. I learned quickly to take it a little slower there, it's also not a ‘main’ route so happens very infrequently.



🔸 Dredge
I really enjoyed this game. More so than I thought I would.
It hucked me in early, and although nothing is ground breaking it’s solid and provided various things to aim for, complete, upgrade, solve and discover.
I enjoyed my time so much that before I completed it I grabbed both DLC and got swallowed into yet more of the same but also its own take on the established game, especially “The Iron Rig”
The “Pale Reach” is its own area (reachable by just sailing) and more of the same with new sealife, story and mechanics, solid.
“The Iron Rig” has a story based in the main archipelago and has area altering events that adds new twists and ‘mechanics’. As well as a new Hull and other onboards upgrades that were more than welcome.
I would’t say there is much replayability but I will come back to start again for the upgrading/fishing loop that was very comfortable to get stuck into and push the Panic level to see what Oddities are out there!


Also I will not apologise for the fishing related puns!

my dream fishing game, love the art style, user friendly and you just get what you expect but even more, the only complaints are very minor and are probably a me problem

很一般，很无聊，同样的美术风格，《洪潮之焰》画面更美，音乐制作更好听，操作手感也更好，这个逼船一点也不好驾驶，剧情也不行，可以说没有主线剧情，单纯的凑任务，单调的钓鱼，内容也没有做的很丰富纯靠任务磨时间，不值得，如果买成十元钱拿就可以玩，但我更推荐《洪潮之焰》