Episode 36: Dredge - A Charming and Unsettling Maritime Excursion

Deep Fried Gaming

Today's episode focuses on 2023's game by Black Salt Games entitled "Dredge", a narrative fishing experience with unsettling undertones. Dredge adopts a charming, cartoonish artstyle, simplistic fishing gameplay and throws in a healthy dosing of mystery and horror to make the high seas a little more interesting. Today we discuss Dredge's various merits and pitfalls: its gameplay, story, music, and more. Timestamps: 0:00 Preamble Introduction 00:45 Episode Preamble 14:45 Dredge Introduced 16:30 What is Dredge: An overview 26:25 The Gameplay of Dredge 39:35 Story and Lore of Dredge (Spoilers) 45:45 Non-Spoiler Story Discussion 48:10 Final Thoughts and Wrap Up