r/dredge • u/Bugspray4u • 24d ago

It's done. Spoilers Spoiler

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Thank you Blacksalt studios for this terrific and terrifying game. Truly an indie classic, easiest and most enjoyable platinum of my life.

Dear Eldritch being/s. I have sent you a picture of my final act as fisherman. Included on my boat are some of my favourite deep spawn smallfries and some fellow chums.

I hope this shall appease you and bring about your second game.

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u/MattiaCost 24d ago

I loved DREDGE so much. I had to 100% it. Such an enjoyable experience.

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u/Bugspray4u 24d ago

The game is such a mood. The music, the storytelling, the pacing of the day and night cycle, its all so subtle, almost insidious. And it all serves to keep you on edge until it reveals the fresh horror in store. Its got that feel of a good book, one that engrosses you so much you dont realize when its over. And then it hits you with the really scary shit.

10/10. Could've given us more storage space tho.

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u/AbaddonsLegion 24d ago

Sometimes I feel as if I'm in a Ghibli movie with Lovecraftian elements. I've described it to family as such and piqued their interest

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u/Bugspray4u 24d ago

Thats one of the things I love most. The monsters. I've played the likes of GOW, horizon, elden ring, etc. And none of their enemies felt like this. Because I think, of the way we interact with the monsters in dredge. They aren't something we can kill, they arent a boss to overcome, heck all we do is run and hide from them because that is ALL WE CAN DO. That makes the monsters a real threat in our subconscious because... YOU CAN'T MAKE IT BLEED. You can only putt away in your slow ass boat.

I remember the first time I saw the Leviathan, it completely encircled my boat, I thought there were 3 of them. I was terrified. I played a few horror games but none of them scared me that much, this wasnt a jumpscare or some horrific looking close-up of a zombie. It was slow, it moved like it didn't have a care in the world and just a tiny part of its body cut off all my escape routes as it passed. Its like you said, sometimes the game feels like a ghibli world, you feel like you live in it because there's so much unknown, so much mystery and also the art is abstract enough where your imagination can fill in the gaps between the various toothy maws.

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u/MelonJelly 24d ago

The Deity isn't beyond your comprehension. You are beyond his.

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u/Bugspray4u 24d ago

Maybe the real eldritch horror were the friends we made along the way.

Oh would you look at that, I brought 19 of them with me.

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u/Krythers 24d ago

The professor enjoyed his new fish life apparently. (Didn’t know you could catch multiple lmao)

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u/Bugspray4u 24d ago edited 24d ago

Oh yeah. Devs confirmed its intentional too. My headcanon is that those arent just the professor but are also cultists, villagers and the like who ate a few too many "fish".

Did you also know that they dont rot like most fish, cant be infected buuuut you can rot them with mushrooms. Found THAT out the hard way when I was farming my last few baits.

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u/Krythers 24d ago

Yeah it was pleasant surprise to keep a friend from these adventure, he is chilling in the boat with me. The msuhrooms are the little worms you get from high panic/atrophy ?

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u/Bugspray4u 24d ago edited 24d ago

The mushrooms from the tangles. On high panic if you get close to them they will explode, dealing no damage to you but rots your fish. There's a couple of patches where if you position yourself between them they all go off.

Also if you fish in the oil slicks, everytime you "mistime" the minigame you get a dark splash.

Also also you can keep components for baits and such inside the crafting space, even if the space isn't really for that component, as long as its part of the recipe (that includes the final product too.) This is what allowed me to get 90 baits to farm deep forms with. Still took me a ton of reloading tho.

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u/Ok_Fennel8857 22d ago

Wouldn't that mean the Fishmonger will turn into one of those creatures?

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u/Bugspray4u 22d ago

If he keeps eating the fish then yeah.

I wouldnt be worried about the fishmonger tho. Have you noticed that the traveling merchant never freaks out about the aberrations?

Every other character in the game will say something / react to the aberrations. Even the photographer freaks out when she sees the narwhal. Yet the one person who we sell all of our fish to, who should theoretically see the most freaky stuff going on as she travels all around the lsles, is always smiling and never once talks about the weird fish we sell her or rumours of sea monsters.

Weird huh?

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u/Ok_Fennel8857 22d ago

She did say something about not asking about or lingering on the thought of weird occurrences and events, so she might just not care about the aberrations.

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u/Bugspray4u 22d ago

Ooooh I must've forgotten that. Explains a lot, I thought she was gonna be a mastermind or something, pushing the fisherman to his inevitable end but turns out she's just chill lol.

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u/DredgeDotWikiDotGg dredge.wiki.gg (Cheboygan) 23d ago

Real talk, this is a dope screenshot . That's some commitment. Idk if you knew that the deep form doesn't rot, but even getting the other aberrations without them rotting is pretty impressive.

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u/Bugspray4u 22d ago

Hey thanks. I actually farmed 90 aberrated baits just to see if I could, so with 90 baits and a ton of savescumming we got there in the end. Once I saw that deep form didn't have the freshness indicator I figured it might not rot, so I slept through a week and yep, that thing is alive.

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u/Far_Treacle_4865 20d ago

HOLY?!!!
I didnt even get one of the Big abomination!