Let's Play Dredge - Part 7 - Follow the Magma

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Published on May 17, 2023 5:00:16 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws9X5Wq_f9Q

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DREDGE (2023)

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Let's Play

Duration: 33:46

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Dredge is a 2023 indie fishing video game developed by New Zealand studio Black Salt Games and published by Team17. The player controls a fisherman, who encounters increasingly Lovecraftian creatures as they venture out further into an open world archipelago. The game was released on March 30, 2023, for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

The game takes place on a day-night cycle, where specific actions the player takes like fishing push the clock forward. The player does a short minigame when an undersea creature approaches in order to determine if they catch it. If the player stays out until night, a panic meter starts to rise, with higher levels leading to hallucinations that change reality around the boat.

Once the player reaches a port, they can sell their catch, which can be spent on upgrades for their boat, adding things like headlights or a thicker hull. The boat has a predetermined amount of space, and the player has to choose which gear to fit inside. At ports the player can also accept side quests, completing tasks for the residents of the islands to earn rewards.

Dredge started development in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team were inspired by other games with oppressive atmospheres, like Papers, Please and Frostpunk. Fog was used as an artistic tool to contrast the day, which is almost completely clear, to the night, where the player can barely see in front of themselves. A developer described the process of creating the game's mutant fish, saying they were "coming up with the craziest adjectives to describe these messed up fish".

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