Dredge, a “sinister fishing journey” through which gamers search fish and fortune, however encounter one thing, nicely, reasonably fishy on their journey, can be launched March 30, developer Black Salt Video games and writer Group 17 introduced Friday. Dredge is headed to Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X. Change homeowners can anticipate a free demo for Dredge within the coming weeks.
Black Salt Video games’ horror-fishing RPG casts gamers as a fisherman exploring a distant archipelago for quite a lot of fish and hidden treasures. Gamers will encounter quest-giving island residents, and study their previous, as they improve their vessel, be taught new expertise, and encounter more and more uncommon sea life. In Lovecraftian style, gamers might want to have sturdy psychological fortitude to resist the horrors that await at sea.
As famous in Polygon’s hands-on preview of Dredge from final 12 months’s Gamescom:
Alongside fish, there are additionally monsters lurking beneath the waves. A few of these slither on board and infect your haul. Different, bigger creatures will merely attempt to smash up your hull, which not solely damages your boat and causes you to lose cargo, however will increase how panicked you might be.
When your panic degree in Dredge rises, you change into much more vulnerable to being boarded by monsters. Rocks may even randomly begin to seem as you sail, with the reason being that as a result of it’s darkish and also you’re not considering straight, you possibly can’t see them till the final minute. You possibly can mitigate this by turning your boat lights on, however clearly that additionally makes you extra seen to the monsters. All of those minor techniques are well interconnected to craft an expertise that quickly oscillates between calmness and chaos, flitting from tranquility to terror as if it’s no one’s enterprise.
Take a look at Dredge’s launch trailer for a style of issues to come back.
