Did you like Animal Crossing? Love the rural farming life that Stardew Valley afforded you? Do you enjoy the simulated act of fishing? Did you feel something was missing though? That despite the bucolic artificial life you had created something was missing? Perhaps buried underneath the bright pastel colors, the teeming, verdant fields of produce. A secret gnawing?
Good news! Dredge has what those games lacked, Lovecraftian horror! The game starts with you, a fisher, answering an ad, and then washing ashore on a tiny island archipelago. You start out merely fishing the waters during the day while townsfolk warn you about the dangers of night and the strange fog that rolls in with it.
And, you could just keep fishing and that'd be the end of it, except for the aberrant fishes, that are sometimes caught on your hook. Or the man who lives alone on an island asking you to collect some items for him that bestow upon you strange and dangerous "gifts" No, in order to understand what is going on in this world you'll have to venture into the night, and the fog, and the paranoid horror it brings.
I sunk about 5 hours into this game over the three day weekend and am absolutely loving it. The fishing mini games are fun, tugging around the islands is fun, the puzzle of fitting as much fish and gear into your boat's storage. You can find scrap to make your boat better, you can research upgrades to your equipment, which you absolutely have to do if you want to visit the further away islands and survive the night.
And the night, weird sounds in the foggy distance, strange lights that chase you, the blasphemous gigantic aquatic monstrosities that will chase you!
Is anyone else playing this?
Good news! Dredge has what those games lacked, Lovecraftian horror! The game starts with you, a fisher, answering an ad, and then washing ashore on a tiny island archipelago. You start out merely fishing the waters during the day while townsfolk warn you about the dangers of night and the strange fog that rolls in with it.
And, you could just keep fishing and that'd be the end of it, except for the aberrant fishes, that are sometimes caught on your hook. Or the man who lives alone on an island asking you to collect some items for him that bestow upon you strange and dangerous "gifts" No, in order to understand what is going on in this world you'll have to venture into the night, and the fog, and the paranoid horror it brings.
I sunk about 5 hours into this game over the three day weekend and am absolutely loving it. The fishing mini games are fun, tugging around the islands is fun, the puzzle of fitting as much fish and gear into your boat's storage. You can find scrap to make your boat better, you can research upgrades to your equipment, which you absolutely have to do if you want to visit the further away islands and survive the night.
And the night, weird sounds in the foggy distance, strange lights that chase you, the blasphemous gigantic aquatic monstrosities that will chase you!
Is anyone else playing this?
