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 DREDGE transitive verb 1 a : to dig, gather, or pull out with or as if with a dredge —often used with up b : to deepen (as a waterway) with a dredging machine 2 a: to bring to light by deep searching —often used with up <dredging up memories> Yar! I can read a dictionary says I! What kind of game is it? Dredge is a Lovecraftian fantasy fishing exploration game combining sea horror with whimsy. A player will spend their time exploring a three dimensionally represented ocean environment with diverse settlements and island biomes. While exploring they may fish, perform quests or dredge the depths for treasure.  The day-night cycle is central to the game, as staying out at night will increase panic (similar to sanity in other games) and is generally more dangerous but different types of fish will be available at night. Time only passes when sailing or performing activities, so you can always stop and think about what you want to do while soaking up the atmosphere, similar to Disco Elysium. Aye, tis a good concept, but what about execution? Visuals and sound are beautiful. Creepy at night and by day it’s downright cozy. Music is evocative and refreshing. Character art is … crunchy… but charming.  Ok I’ll bite, What crew dredged this to the surface? Black Salt Games is a four person studio from New Zealand. Along with two music/audio people, voice actors and a mess of play testers they put this little thing together. No need to shanghai me, where can I climb aboard? Dredge is available on Steam, GOG, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, and Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One for the low low price of $24.99.
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I've been playing this on the Series X and it's a good time, although I feel like I don't really have a great idea of how to progress. I'm just fishing and slowly upgrading my fishing boat. Maybe I should be trying to dredge up more artifacts or something? Or start going out more at night, but it's scary. My favourite little detail which don't look at if you're going to play the game, instead discover it by yourself. Your ship has a fog horn which you can blow. At day you can just go ham on the thing and have a good time. Then I did it at night, playing the "shave and a haircut" melody. A few seconds later from out of the fog comes a mournful and out of tune ship's horn repeating the same melody. I made a VERY hasty retreat to port after that.
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Apr 10, 2023 07:47
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I've been playing this on the Series X and it's a good time, although I feel like I don't really have a great idea of how to progress. I'm just fishing and slowly upgrading my fishing boat. Maybe I should be trying to dredge up more artifacts or something? Or start going out more at night, but it's scary. Yeah, there really isn't that much to progression. Returning artifacts progresses the story, and the ship upgrades help with getting to the artifacts in one piece (though you could probably beat the game without much in the way of upgrades). Going out at night nets you interesting fish and becomes much less scary once you've returned some artifacts and made some engine upgrades.
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Apr 10, 2023 14:28
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Played this through to completion, neat little game
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Apr 10, 2023 20:29
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Also played through and beat the game and enjoyed it a lot. Feels like it has room to expand on this idea for a sequel. The world, outside the beginner harbor and those loving angler fish boats, felt very safe? I rarely felt that spooked. I think its more dangerous if your panic is higher, but there's so many places to sleep and that travelling merchant is literally right next to any place with danger that it tends to be a non-issue. Although, being out in the open ocean with max danger did lead to a pretty big surprise! Whoops! Also played through both endings.
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Apr 11, 2023 00:41
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Playing thru this still, I like it a lot. Despite the day/night cycle you can really play the game at your own pace pushing things a little bit further if you're up for it.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:45
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Kinda just the perfect game for where I was at last week. My wife’s Mom lives out in the middle of no where and we had to go help her start moving out. They packed things and reminisced while I took care of our son but once he took a nap or went to sleep I kicked back with the switch. Totally playable on the small screen in other words. Very relaxing.
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Apr 11, 2023 05:41
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This is my current game and I'm liking it, but I'm just chugging around and fishing stuff, the eldritch stuff isn't really creepy and the only reason I'm not going hog wild at night is because my fish can get infested. Not sure if I'm missing something or if the later areas are creepier.
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Apr 11, 2023 05:53
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Catch Without Arms is their best album hands down, but Leitmotif has Symbol Song and Lechium
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Apr 11, 2023 06:01
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I kinda enjoyed this when I played it but I felt disappointed in terms of what I was doing at the end compared to the start. I think they should have pushed it much further towards the occult than they did.
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Apr 11, 2023 14:24
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Yeah the hallucinations at night are neat but not dangerous from I've seen. One thing to note if you are a completionist: there are 4 quests spread out around the islands where you must bring specific fish to hooded figures. Some of these fish require rods from later in the game. If you do not bring them their fish within a hidden time limit, the figures die, and you are cut off from the rewards, which are permanent buffs. This may or not upset some types of people, such as myself.
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Apr 11, 2023 16:20
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It’s gonna be a bit spoilers but the main issues I had were that by the end I was doing pretty much the same thing as the start, bringing fish to people. I wish I could have seen my character become immersed in the occult, and have additional sub-systems that tie in with the fisherman himself doing occult rituals. Some of the ideas I had were stuff like: -Cutting open fish, putting specific things into them and throwing them back to summon Eldritch beings. -dropping chum that creates lines of an occult symbol on the water -Some kind of reverse dredge where you are dropping things into the water, and weird grippy stuff happens/you get attacked the closer you are to placing it down. -Something suddenly snagging on your fishing lead in the midst of normal fishing, and you get dragged wildly off course. Just didn’t feel like the allucinations/panic did enough to change to gameplay systems.
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Apr 11, 2023 16:28
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Mylan posted:Yeah the hallucinations at night are neat but not dangerous from I've seen. It was very weird to find that out in a game where thus far there have been absolutely no signs of time limits being present. Tekopo posted:It’s gonna be a bit spoilers but the main issues I had were that words Also the weird hosed up fish don't really have any story impact other than one guy going "huh!" The delivery of packages to the town across from the start seemed to stop in the middle and go nowhere. I was wondering if I missed something somewhere to get him to do something more.
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Apr 11, 2023 23:14
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Also every time I saw an infection occur I immediately threw away the fish since I thought bad stuff would happen if I brought it to town but no, it’s just less money. That’s kind of disappointing.
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Apr 11, 2023 23:23
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Oh yeah the packages, that seemed to go nowhere
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Apr 11, 2023 23:32
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Mylan posted:One thing to note if you are a completionist: there are 4 quests spread out around the islands where you must bring specific fish to hooded figures. Some of these fish require rods from later in the game. If you do not bring them their fish within a hidden time limit, the figures die, and you are cut off from the rewards, which are permanent buffs. This may or not upset some types of people, such as myself. I found two of them but haven't really prioritized their quests over anything else. Still don't have the necessary rod to catch abyssal fish for one of them and don't know where to get the fish for the other. Is it the sort of thing where they'll die unless you beeline for them at the start or can you play at a normal pace and still complete their quests? Don't want to miss out on anything and I'll pay more attention to them if the time limit is relatively strict.
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Apr 11, 2023 23:33
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Man I wish this game was longer than the 12hrs I got outa it. Soo good maybe if the elder gods are kind well get dlc.
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Apr 11, 2023 23:50
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:I found two of them but haven't really prioritized their quests over anything else. Still don't have the necessary rod to catch abyssal fish for one of them and don't know where to get the fish for the other. Is it the sort of thing where they'll die unless you beeline for them at the start or can you play at a normal pace and still complete their quests? Don't want to miss out on anything and I'll pay more attention to them if the time limit is relatively strict. you can get like one or two days between getting the quest and them dying i think. it resets each time you give them a fish also note that even if you "fail" them and the guys die it still counts as "completing" the quest for the achievement
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Apr 12, 2023 03:44
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Yeah achievement description explicitly says "finish all quests ONE WAY OR ANOTHER"
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Apr 12, 2023 03:49
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Dredging thread to ask for ending chat: Read there's an alternative ending to Go to sea to reunite with lost love, summon Cthulhu, taking the collector with you (tried to savescum punching the mirror and it autosaved after)
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Apr 13, 2023 11:54
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Desdinova posted:Dredging thread to ask for ending chat:
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Apr 13, 2023 12:22
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You have to also find the old mayor first, before you can talk to the lighthouse attendant. He’s at any of the abandoned campsites you can find.
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Apr 13, 2023 14:04
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I picked this up last night and I'm really enjoying it. It scratches that Sunless Seas itch that Sunless Skies missed. I love how creepy everything out in the fog is at night. I'm less fond of that giant rear end in a top hat sea serpent that keeps loving up my lamps! gently caress you too, giant rear end in a top hat fish!
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Apr 20, 2023 13:41
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I really liked this game but it was too easy? Maybe that’s why I liked it because it was pretty chill. Agreed on earlier points about infected fish and not enough eldritch stuff. I was impressed I managed to find the alternate ending on my first run just by wandering around. I think all my Hooded Figures died of hunger because I had no idea there was a time limit.
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Apr 20, 2023 14:15
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Ugh yeah, I screwed up the first hooded guy I came across, which was probably the easiest one to fulfill, and then flubbed the second cause I couldn't find a freaking sail fish in time. Managed to get the yellow guy tho. This game is great and has been excellent on the Switch, haven't noticed any performance issues and I love the art style and overall vibe. I think the only part of the game I've found challenging so far has been the gale cliffs, but it wasn't too bad after a hull upgrade or two. I think my biggest complaint is some of the UI feels a bit clunky and my brain refuses to remember which one is the dry dock and which is the shipwright at the trader. I do wish the game managed to maintain the creepiness factor a bit more but it's actually chill enough that my wife wants to play it, so maybe that's a good thing !
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Apr 20, 2023 18:48
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I started playing Dredge last night for a couple of hours and I'm enjoying it so far, but do any of you have any tips on how to make money consistently? (Especially early game) Like are there certain types of fish (shallow or coastal) that are worth more than the others?
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Apr 24, 2023 19:30
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Rabbit Hill posted:I started playing Dredge last night for a couple of hours and I'm enjoying it so far, but do any of you have any tips on how to make money consistently? (Especially early game) Like are there certain types of fish (shallow or coastal) that are worth more than the others? Trawling constantly while you're working on other things is a good way to generate income passively, I ignored it for too long until I was towards the end and started having to use it for catching specific fish. When you start working on quests in a new area it's also useful to throw a bunch of crab pots down right outside the merchant dock and sell everything in them every few days.
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Apr 24, 2023 19:47
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Rabbit Hill posted:I started playing Dredge last night for a couple of hours and I'm enjoying it so far, but do any of you have any tips on how to make money consistently? (Especially early game) Like are there certain types of fish (shallow or coastal) that are worth more than the others? I remember Oceanic fish being worth a lot more generally and I think that's the third rod you get
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Apr 24, 2023 20:21
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Trawling constantly while you're working on other things is a good way to generate income passively, I ignored it for too long until I was towards the end and started having to use it for catching specific fish. When you start working on quests in a new area it's also useful to throw a bunch of crab pots down right outside the merchant dock and sell everything in them every few days. An important thing about trawling I didn’t realize is you can use other tools after you put the net down, it’s like the light on your boat. You don’t need to keep it selected
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Apr 26, 2023 20:05
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Rabbit Hill posted:I started playing Dredge last night for a couple of hours and I'm enjoying it so far, but do any of you have any tips on how to make money consistently? (Especially early game) Like are there certain types of fish (shallow or coastal) that are worth more than the others? Buy a shitload of crab pots. Regularly upgrade them.
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Apr 29, 2023 23:53
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Finished the game, didn't do all the side stuff but really enjoyed it. I never even got the tier 4 hull upgrade.
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Apr 29, 2023 23:57
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I like how restrained this game is. The pacing is slow and some of the horror is almost prosaic, like the game gets a lot of mileage out of the fact that the ocean is scary as-is. Fish are already weird, and then you've got the massive emptiness on the water and under it, the way you can see the seabed drop out of sight as you go further out, and the (literally) unsettling way the little boat heaves during a storm. I've found plenty of hosed poo poo, but I haven't seen actual Cthulhu and I appreciate that. The ocean is full of big tentacle monsters, so giving one of them a humanoid shape and coherent goals would just suck. gently caress a Cthulhu, you know what's weird? The sunflower sea star. A meter wide, 20ish arms, a lighting fast predator for something that eats snails and sessile prey, and if I wanted I could hop into my car and see one irl. It lives in tide pools.
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May 3, 2023 21:01
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Yeah I agree I really enjoyed the pacing of the game. It could get spooky at night but you didn't have to spend that much time fishing at night if you didn't want too so it was kind of up to the player how intense they wanted the game to be. Just over all a really enjoyable intriguing world. The developers shared a roadmap including an upcoming paid DLC. quote:Introducing the DREDGE roadmap
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May 3, 2023 21:29
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nice first larger patch. Guess too many people were unhappy with the timed quest.. quote:Patch Notes:
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May 14, 2023 09:04
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https://twitter.com/BlackSaltGames/status/1709949331128942696 DLC drops tomorrow
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Nov 16, 2023 03:22
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I wonder if you can play the DLC from an existing save. I really enjoyed this game but not sure I want to start a new game again just to get to the new content.
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Nov 16, 2023 03:25
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Confirming you can pick it up from an existing save. It’s good but really short though, not sure if it’s worth $6
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Nov 17, 2023 05:08
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Badger of Basra posted:Confirming you can pick it up from an existing save. It’s good but really short though, not sure if it’s worth $6 Yeah I saw that, looks like it's just another zone which is neat but I'm not sure I'm up for that a the moment.
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I grabbed this because Pushinguproses did a video about it, and due to that every time I pick up a mutant fish i hear "look at this weird fish" in that matter of fact way she uses. But drat, this is a great little game. It has something I find rare, the fishing mini games are actually easy to do, they require timing and paying attention but they're not overly complex and inscrutable like you find in some games. But yea, i wish the weird poo poo going down was a bit more fleshed out. I figured the packages would go somewhere, that there was some kind of squishy thing behind it all. Like when the fishmonger goes "hey i hear if you eat a mutant fish you go mad, well, lets try" and then he just is unavailable for a day and then comes back as if nothing happened. He should come back with a fishy look to him or something. I'd still say its my second favorite game of the year i played after BG3.
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Looks like it's getting a crossover with Dave the Diver (another game I enjoyed)
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