You’ve arrived to be the town's new fisherman, but your boat got caught in the clutches of a monstrous creature in a storm as you were coming into the dock. It all begins with your nameless character washing up on the shores of Great Marrow, a grotty fishing town in the middle of an archipelago. Actually, scratch that, it's basically in another dimension. Occasionally, it gets more of the spotlight like Bunnyhug's lo-fi fishing RPG Moonglow Bay, but anything more and you're often looking at full-blown sim games like last year’s Call of the Wild: The Angler, or 1977’s Sega Bass Fishing - what a classic.ĭredge is a world away from all that. Usually, fishing is a light mini-game in life sims like Disney Dreamlight Valley and Spiritfarer. I mean, fishing is supposed to be relaxing! It's meditative and laid-back and its interpretation in games has followed suit (not you, Stardew Valley, never you). Dredge already feels like one of this year’s greatest indie horrors and all this, from a fishing game of all things. Basically, I'm completely enraptured, hook, line, sinker.
Its eldritch world keeps pulling me back with its mystery and malevolent horror, and its sense of atmosphere and tension is incredible. I’ve spent hours exploring its murky waters and my constant shock at what unsettling creatures my hook brings in is seemingly never-ending. Black Salt Games' sinister fishing RPG is gripping and enchanting in a way I didn’t anticipate. I’ve not been playing Dredge long, but I’m calling it one of my favourite games of the year, right now, in February. I chuck my prize into my cargo and speed back to town, the phrase ‘fuck round, find out’ circling my brain. Suddenly there’s a deep rumbling in the ocean and panic starts to creep in. The more morbid it is, the more money I get. Yes, this should make for a fine amount of cash. The third one, however, is monstrous, a mess of jagged teeth and sickly pale flesh.
I find a squid spot and start to fish, reeling in one or two fine-looking catches. I can barely see three feet in front of my nose because of the thick blanket of fog, but I'm trying my hand at night fishing, hoping to hook something really good. I’m in my little tugboat out on open waters.
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