A reel catch
Its the dead of night.
Im in my little tugboat out on open waters.
I find a squid spot and start to fish, reeling in one or two fine-looking catches.
The third one, however, is monstrous, a mess of jagged teeth and sickly pale flesh.
Yes, this should make for a fine amount of cash.
The more morbid it is, the more money I get.
Suddenly theres a deep rumbling in the ocean and panic starts to creep in.
Black Salt Games' sinister fishingRPGis gripping and enchanting in a way I didnt anticipate.
Basically, I’m completely enraptured, hook, line, sinker.
I mean, fishing is supposed to be relaxing!
Usually, fishing is a light mini-game in life sims likeDisney Dreamlight ValleyandSpiritfarer.
Dredge is a world away from all that.
Actually, scratch that, it’s basically in another dimension.
What happened to the previous fisherman?
What’s with the ominous, looming vibe coming from the lighthouse?
And why does everyone keep telling you to get back to shore before sundown?
Theres something serisouly sinister going on in this archipelago.
To start earning money, out on the waters I go in my little tugboat.
My first outing is actually pretty laid-back.
The sun is shining, the water is glistening, and there’s a lovely breeze.
Perfect weather for some fishing.
Dredges fishing works as a combination of a timed mini-game together with block puzzle elements.
It’s unnerving at first.
The fish you catch all start out quite normal, but slowly you begin to discover more monstrous creatures.
But that’s precisely the point.
What is he doing with all the cursed fish I have brought him?
Surely, he’s not selling them for people to eat?
Outside of the goulish fishmonger, theres more going on in this town.
I seemingly have an entire shopping list of reasons why I should stop, but I don’t.
I have a strange fascination with what I’ve found in the deep and I want to find more.
Dredge has taken a big chomp out of me and now I am riddled with curiosity.
Dredge is just as much a mystery game as it is a horror fishing sim.
Dredge certainly taps into that fear of the deep, but theres something more going on here.
And to top everything off, it looks like I’ve only skimmed Dredge’s surface.
Trailers have shown encounters withcolossal monstersthat are easily ten times the size of my boat.
I need to play the rest of this game, like, right now.
