DREDGE

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Good game, engaging gameplay, amazing music, good visuals, interesting story, the progression can be a bit clunky and the end game is boring. I do NOT recommend the DLCs, those feel uneccesary 8/10

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I can recommend Dredge to a degree. For the first five or six hours, it was highly compelling. Genuinely fear inducing, good music, tight economic loop, good gameplay. Upgrading your ship felt rewarding. But eventually, it gets quite dull. The other areas don’t have nearly the same vibe as the first island and have nowhere near the fear factor. The characters on those aren’t nearly as interesting or relatable. The fishing remained enjoyable, but eventually you crack the code and are rolling in dough. You can buy tech points, so leveling becomes easy and grindy rather than enjoyably difficult. Still, I really enjoyed most of my time, and I think you will too. It was cozy and enjoyable, and that’s worth a rec. But when you get to the point where you’re feeling like you’ve overfished this game, I recommend closing it out rather than belaboring your stay on the water.

超级好玩，我把dlc都全成就了，力荐

A laid-back experience that I quite enjoyed. There was tension at first, but I became more comfortable and daring as I progressed. I really enjoyed filling out my encyclopedia, getting to see all of the fish and their otherworldly aberrations, even the uncatchable ones were a welcome sight during my travels that made me smile. A memorable moment for me was when the arm of a huge Squid rose out of the water, only for a Sperm Whale to surface and drag it back down, I was shocked. Another fond moment was when I entered the Stellar Basin for the first time, the environmental sounds building up on the way, leading into some lovely music as I came face-to-face with a gorgeous view.

Dredge does an excellent job of adding more to the typically quiet fishing experience by going hard on atmosphere and a nice core gameplay loop. The fishing itself is simplistic and only a matter of timing, and inventory management is equally simple once you know what items can be jammed in which ways-- the core challenge is simple risk vs reward. Do you stay out late & risk the dangers of the night to load your boat chock full of catch or turn away early? Because it's such a simple loop it'll be either really compelling or leave you bored fast. Personally I can sink hours at a time and still want more, especially since there's also a really nice upgrade system that scratches the part of my brain that so many Flash games focused on-- how can I stop when I'm only a couple runs away from affording a new engine? There are a handful of scares which you'll encounter by toeing the line too much, but the main fear comes from losing your catch since your last save. This is not inherently scary, but still provides stakes high enough to keep that loop compelling to me. The game's main draw is how it portrays this world: it's mostly very moody, but every one of the 5 main areas has a distinct feel, and occasional sealife sightings besides the plain fishing holes make it feel like quite natural and fun to explore. Every region's fish are distinct as well, and hunting even the smaller less-profitable ones is worthwhile thanks to [spoiler] the aberration system[/spoiler] -- their designs especially are one of my favorite parts of the game. You can also dredge up salvage components to work on upgrading your ship, which again was a big reason it had me hooked so well. The story is probably my least favorite component. There's a cycle of "go to location -> help someone who provides you some vague context about how the broader world is in peril by catching new fish -> get and submit reward -> repeat"-- while that works in gameplay terms it feels very repetitive narratively, and besides a handful of questions with brief replies your only storytelling is through found notes which aren't really more than a page. It isn't a bad narrative per se and leaving gaps lets the player scare themselves with speculation, but ultimately I just don't feel that it's enough of a presence in the game-- and [spoiler] the endings feel a bit lackluster as a result, especially when they last a fraction of the duration of the credits, [/spoiler] TLDR: Catch weird fish to sell/give to beaten-down people to be able to build a really cracked boat. Also, Lovecraft is there rambling about the end of days or something.