Dredge Review: A High Quality Horror Catch Of The Day

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Even though H.P. Lovecraft was not particularly popular at the time he was writing, he has had a lasting legacy in the world of horror. Many video games have been influenced by Lovecraft over the years, with notable examples including and. , from developer Black Salt Games, takes the aquatic nature of many of Lovecraft's stories and applies it to a fishing adventure game.

sees the player cast as a fisherman unsure of his past and washed up on the shores of an archipelago called The Marrows. There, they must explore the nearby islands, catching fish and helping its denizens, while finding a series of strange artifacts that point towards why a mysterious and dangerous fog rolls in at night. Indeed, it's not just the fog itself that's a threat during the dark hours, as the player is likely to find out if they decide to try their luck fishing by twilight.

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Structurally feels like an obscure adventure game, with the player exploring an open environment made up of five key island groups. The core story arc consists of finding occult artifacts for a strange man who lives on a secluded island, and these artifacts are generally found after helping the inhabitants of the archipelago with quests ranging from providing samples of abyssal fish through to getting revenge on memory-wiping tentacled horrors of the deep. There are smaller explorative moments to be found too, finding wrecks and abandoned campsites, that almost make feels like a choose-your-own-adventure or role-playing game.

There are two driving forces for the player's actions in, with the first being its solid mystery about exactly what is happening in The Marrows. However, the more compelling element is