Chill fisherman simulator by day, Lovecraftian horror by night.

Enjoyed the calm gameplay loop of fishing for rare fish, selling them at the market to buy upgrades for your boat so you can catch more rare fish. Lots of variety in the boat build options and ticking off fish from the huge encyclopedia list of fish was satisfying.

It does a great job making you feel the terrifying scale of some of the HUGE monsters that are lurking out in the open waters, especially when you least expect to see one. However, the smaller monsters that live in the game's major islands were more just nuisances than actual threats.

Story-wise it didn't grip me right away, but around the half way mark it definitely picked up when the mystery started to unfold. Side quests were pretty shallow however. The people you meet are interesting but a couple of them just felt like fetch quests rather than fleshed out side missions.

My biggest gripe with Dredge is that there wasn't more. I wanted more fish, more upgrades, more missions, more mysteries. But what is there is excellent.