Dredge: How To Unlock The Secret Ending

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Dredge can be as relaxing, engrossing, or mysterious as you want it to be. Theoretically, you could abandon the story and spend hours just fishing. It can be a simple life, but it’s one that is surprisingly compelling. Heck, our run time was elongated because we kept on casting our rod out and chilling along some random coast. 

But there is a story in Dredge, and it’s one steeped in intrigue. Even in its final throes of wonder, Dredge doesn’t fully explain itself. Instead, it leaves a fair amount of it up to interpretation and player intuition. Not only that, there are two endings, and in this guide, we are going to go over both.

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Note: We are going to do our best to avoid spoilers, but the nature of this guide means that some aspects of Dredge will be spoiled. You’ve been warned. 

The Bad Ending is the standard ending in Dredge. It is likely going to be the ending most people get on their first time through. This is because, despite the game repeatedly railing you for blindly doing the busywork of a stranger, you continued to do said busywork. Whoops. 

To get the Bad Ending in Dredge all you have to do is follow the main storyline. This is to say you need to do what The Collector says and return all of the missing Relics. These are scattered around Dredge’s world, and his Questline is the main driving force behind the game’s progression. 

Once you hand The Collector the final Relic, the game ends and some interesting things happen. Whoops, you did a goof. Next time try and avoid handing the keys to cosmic death to a madman, aye? 

The Secret Ending is well hidden, but it doesn’t require much more work to get – a