A few times I limped back to port at 5am with a damaged engine and holes in my hull, caught out by the setting sun and attacked by some night-time horror, but I was rarely sunk.ĭredge never says too much, which is why it works so well as a chiller. Danger, in the form of underwater leviathans or the encroaching dark, is always present but usually at a distance there’s a sense of threat without the frustration of imminent failure. Finding a promising spot, you press buttons in time to reel in your catch, then fiddle around with it to fit it into your cargo hold, playing Tetris with fish, planks, sunken treasure and whatever else you find on your day’s adventure. The next unexplored island, upgrade or little story breakthrough always felt tantalisingly within reach and the business of fishing and sailing is so pleasing that it easily carries the rest. This game sucked me in for hours at a time. Sometimes the overarching horror story feels barely there, as you go about your business selling your catch and saving for a hull expansion other times, when you’re caught out in the dark miles from a dock and starting to see things, it feels oppressively present.įish Tetris … Dredge. It’s a clever, compelling fishing adventure game with an eldritch twist you upgrade your boat, nets and rods, venture out further to catch different fish and encounter creatures in the night that make you want to drop the controller in disgust. He shoves me from his shop before barring the door.ĭredge plumbs the depths of our instinctive fear of the ocean and the unseen things that waft around down there in the dark. The fishmonger’s face betrays a disturbing glee when I hand it over to him, then falls as he holds the oceanic aberration to his ear to hear its whispers.
After a couple of days, though, I catch something that’s … wrong, a mess of scales curled around a repulsively enormous single eye. The vessel can’t go far, but there are mackerel and cod within easy reach of the port and its lighthouse I’m warned not to stay out after dark as the rocks can be treacherous, looming suddenly out of the dark and crashing against the hull. Heading out as the sun rises in a battered old fishing boat, everything seems peaceful.
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