2/27/2024 0 Comments Adrenix game review![]() There’s no marker on screen guiding you toward the next quest instead, you set out to the northwest, or far off to the east, looking for landmarks that match what you’ve seen on the map. Wandering is encouraged in Dredge its map has to be pulled up and studied, because there are no waypoints to be placed. It’s one of those games whose meditative moments are all the more comforting for the shadows lurking around them Dredge has a sharp edge, but it’s not holding it to my throat. But it’s a soft psychological horror - almost gentle - that sneaks up on the fisherman in the dark and early hours of the morning. In these moments Dredge veers slightly into horror. Fish for long enough at night, and they’ll reveal themselves more easily, bursting forth from the sea to tear your ship to shreds. It’s not only mackerel and coral grouper that swim in Dredge’s seas something’s rotting the fish and turning them into grotesque monsters. It’s quickly understood that Dredge’s ocean has plenty of mysteries - many of which arise at night. ![]() Through all this fishing, selling, and upgrading, you’ll find places to dock on other islands, one of which will set the fisherman off on a search for several artifacts that threaten to reveal more of the ocean’s secrets than, perhaps, he wants to see. Fish for a few in-game hours and you’ll quickly realize that it may be easy to fill your vessel with mackerel, which take up two grid spaces, but much harder to organize rays and sharks, which quickly take up space in erratic ways. The challenge, though, is that new equipment also takes up the same precious cargo space as your fresh (and rotting) catches. The more fish you catch, the more you can sell, and that leads to upgraded fishing poles, engines, and nets. ![]() Space and time management are essential to Dredge. But to keep the fish to later sell, you have to make space in your hull each catch means rearranging the gridded cargo hold to optimize storage, a little game of Tetris with each new fish. Catching the fish requires a simple timing minigame, in which you have to hit a button at the exact right moment. When you cast off your line, a fish bites immediately there’s no waiting patiently for a single nibble. During the 12 hours of sunlight, you can see where the fish are bubbling to the surface, their shadows dancing under the waves. Playing as the fisherman, I take to the seas and cast out my line. Dredge is a fishing game, after all - albeit one that tugs on the idea of fishing rather than the reality of it. His ship was destroyed on the rocks that guard the coastline, so he’s quickly handed a new boat and some fishing line and sent on his way by the mayor the people must have something to eat.Īnd so he fishes. Dredge begins with a fisherman arriving at Greater Marrow, one island in an archipelago that interrupts a vast stretch of wine-dark sea, under peculiar circumstances. In Dredge, the debut video game from developer Black Salt Games, those mysteries are starting to make themselves known. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences.
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