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DREDGE Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Dredge isn’t shy about the horrors that lie mere feet under my fisherman’s dinky boat. Sure, my bright day hours are filled with peaceful fishing to gentle piano tracks, in a quaint loop of sailing around for catches and then selling them for money towards upgrades and tools. Then dusk sets, my paranoia kicks in and Dredge bears its monstrous, mutated teeth. Life in Dredge is Lovecraftian as hell, wonderfully ominous and effortlessly moreish all at once. Things start off simple enough: My poor unnamed fisherman has KO’d his vessel near the small island town of Greater Marrow. After being offered a replacement and a small debt for the pleasure, I’m quickly set on my way to get to grips with fishing. The actual act of fishing is relatively simple: Hit the button to fish when the moving target hits a green zone across Dredge’s various minigames. They vary in complexity, like a ball simply going round in circles or one that alternates swinging between two curved bars. The real challenge comes from what to do once I’ve landed my catch. Fish in Dredge come in all shapes and sizes, which I have to efficiently slot in my vessel’s tiled inventory. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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For many, fishing is a serene, relaxing hobby. It’s a playful, yet often deadly game, where typically the one holding the rod is in full control. Out on the open seas, this dynamic is often flipped. Manning a trawler for days on end, fighting devastating weather conditions, and drifting away from land for weeks at a time can take a toll on your body and mind. It’s these sorts of conditions that Dredge so neatly encapsulates in a handful of smartly designed mechanics, but it’s the sinister undertone seeping through every crack that makes its fishing expeditions that much more treacherous. You begin Dredge arriving at a small fishing hamlet on an ever-so-slightly larger island. The town’s mayor is in need of someone to supply its population with fish and loans you a small but capable boat to fulfill that. Fishing is what you’ll do most in Dredge given that you’ll never get the chance to set foot on land, so it’s a blessing that it never feels tedious. Each battle with a creature beneath the crest of the waves plays out as a brief minigame focused on timed button presses. The format of each one changes depending on the class of fish you’re trying to catch, but the basic premise and overall difficulty remains the same. Completing each one isn’t even required for a successful catch. Instead, your ability in each minigame just speeds up the process, which can come in handy when you’re trying to get back to shore before nightfall.

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Heading out as the sun rises in a battered old fishing boat, everything seems peaceful. The vessel can’t go far, but there are mackerel and cod within easy reach of the port and its lighthouse; I’m warned not to stay out after dark as the rocks can be treacherous, looming suddenly out of the dark and crashing against the hull. After a couple of days, though, I catch something that’s … wrong, a mess of scales curled around a repulsively enormous single eye. The fishmonger’s face betrays a disturbing glee when I hand it over to him, then falls as he holds the oceanic aberration to his ear to hear its whispers. He shoves me from his shop before barring the door. Dredge plumbs the depths of our instinctive fear of the ocean and the unseen things that waft around down there in the dark. It’s a clever, compelling fishing adventure game with an eldritch twist; you upgrade your boat, nets and rods, venture out further to catch different fish and encounter creatures in the night that make you want to drop the controller in disgust. Sometimes the overarching horror story feels barely there, as you go about your business selling your catch and saving for a hull expansion; other times, when you’re caught out in the dark miles from a dock and starting to see things, it feels oppressively present. Baldr Sky

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The writing is tremendous, with shiversome descriptions of twisted fish – “a cracked husk of scaly plates sliding atop pulsing, miscoloured flesh” – and sparing dialogue that says just enough to chill the blood while leaving your imagination to dwell on the rest. Characters are illustrated in broad, expressionist strokes, barely animated but still communicating unease, mystery or despair; out on the open water, the style is more minimalist. Your boat chugs away on the calming waves, distant cliffs and islands just visible in the distance. Horror fishing is a vastly under-utilized genre of video game. Off the top of my head, I can only really think of one other game that did it: Monster Bass on PS1. Dredge takes a different approach. You’re cast as a fisherman who is called to help the small town of Greater Morrow after their last fisherman…uh…did a bad job. You find out quickly that night is a bad time to be out at sea, as your ship is wrecked on the nearby rocks. The mayor hooks you up with a new ship (and debt) and sets you back off to work.

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It’s not long before you pull up something horrible from the deep. Some of the fish are badly mutated. The townsfolk whisper of madness and other dark things. You learn the fate of the old mayor and get wrapped up in some questionable errands. Keep your head down and keep working. You’re just a fisherman. You know nothing of the horrors that lurk deep beneath the waves. Not only that, but tiles are shared by designated slots for my equipment and engine—did I want to kit out my vessel to be a lean, mean fishing machine, or save some precious tiles for more fish and more money? Playing around with maximising my efficiency kept me surprisingly busy during my playthrough. Fish also have a freshness meter that determines how much money they can sell for. Fresher the fish, the more coin in your pocket. The freshness rating comes into play for a single side quest, but outside of it, I felt it was a rather pointless addition. I was ferrying back and forth to sell my catches so often that I rarely slipped into the ‘stale’ or ‘rotten’ ratings, only having the issue when making larger treks across the map. Banana Ranch

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Sail away While the wide, sun-kissed ocean is inviting during the 12 hours of daylight you have during each day, it’s an entirely different prospect at night. A thick fog settles in over the wide expanse, with your boat’s lights often struggling to cut through them effectively for navigation. While out at night, your stress levels rise consistently (indicated by a Sauron-like eye that starts moving more erratically the higher the level goes), and with it, the chance for some surreal occurrences. Rocks that you might have been sure weren’t on your path before suddenly appear, damaging your hull and potentially robbing you of some of your current haul. As you press on through the stress, your so-called delusions intensify, with anything from pitch-black ravens with glowing red eyes beginning to circle you to ghostly ships appearing in your periphery and setting themselves on a crash course with your vessel.

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Dredge threads the needle of mystery by never explaining these events outright. Each time you dock after a long night out, citizens of the various islands you explore will comment on your tiredness and warn you of the dangers of sailing without sleep. Converse with them more and you’ll likely find that everyone knows something strange is happening out on the water, but no one is willing to offer an explanation as to what. Small notes in bottles strewn across the open oceans suggest a past event that might explain the unexplainable occurrences you’ll often witness, but even then, there’s a delightful amount that’s left for you to piece together. Dredge, with its eldritch horror inspirations, predictably doesn’t give you a straightforward answer by the end, and also disappointingly saves its most grotesque imagery for the few seconds before credits roll. While its themes are pervasive enough throughout to give Dredge a distinctly Lovecraftian feel, there’s no denying that its otherwise suitably vague ending would have been more impactful with a similar level of horror strewn throughout. Banished

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It might seem easy enough to just confine all of your fishing to the day time to avoid any unsettling encounters and potential inventory loss, but Dredge’s systems are balanced in a way that routinely provokes you to take a risk. Time, for example, doesn’t pass when you’re stationary, but will rapidly fly by as you move and partake in fishing. It was common for me to try squeezing in one more fishing spot before returning to the harbor, only for one or two mishaps during the timing in the minigame to plunge the world around me into darkness and make the journey back all the more treacherous. Many species of fish are also only available to catch at night, and given their requirement in some quests, you’re often given no choice but to brave the fog in search of the right shapes beneath the surface to pluck up and deliver to needy townsfolk. It’s also just captivating to see how far you can push your sanity in Dredge at times, admiring how the world around you is twisted underneath oppressive red hues after days without a wink of sleep.

The mystery of Dredge is unfurled slowly. Then it just keeps unfurling. The main crux of the narrative is that you’re tasked with finding a number of items from the four corners of the map by this creepy guy who keeps casting spells on you. Largely, you fish to make money. Money gets you better equipment and also helps keep your boat afloat. You can unlock new equipment by finding research material out at sea. This can allow you to get better fishing gear and engines. You’ll also find debris that can be used to improve your boat to hold more items. Your goals also involve a lot of fishing. There’s an item to get in each of the four corners of the world, and usually, you’ll need specific species of fish in order to get to them. One, for example, has you slot in various sea creatures to unlock keys that eventually result in you getting the sought-after treasure. Another, those fish are used to make special chum, and so on. It’s a number of different fishing systems that all feed into one another. While the challenges in each part of the world are unique, they’re all unified under catching fish.

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