#10 Dredge

In Dredge you play as a lonely fisherman, on a voyage to find better waters and greater prosperity in the isolated village of Greater Marrow. On your trip over the turbulent seas, your vessel gets lost in a deep and dense fog, leading you to crash on the jagged rocks below Great Marrow’s lighthouse. You survive the crash and are approached by the Mayor of the town, who is willing to sell you a broken and battered fishing vessel, in the agreement that you will sell fish to the local fishmonger. In doing so, you slowly pay off your debt for the boat and help rebuild the crumbling community, by re-opening the once derelict dry dock and restoring communication with the neighboring village of Little Marrow. Everything seems to be going well, the town is thriving, you are slowly paying back your debt but something pulls at the back of your mind that not everything is as it seems in this quiet fishing town. The warnings not to go out at night are elevated by the strange red shimmers that appear above the water once the sun goes down. Unusual, deformed fish start to appear on your lines and in your nets, with bulbous eyes and sharp, human-like teeth that when brought to the local fishmonger, seem to excite him rather than terrify him. This is all brought to a head when a mysterious figure bangs on your port hole and tells you to visit him at his manor on the nearby Blackstone Isle. The man installs dredging equipment on your boat in exchange for your help finding peculiar relics from shipwrecks. Each relic you bring him, he promises, will help you enhance your boat and make more gold to pay off your debt. The search for relics leads you across the peninsula, to mangroves, volcanoes and sheer cliffs as you slowly creep into insanity, uncovering the terrors of the dark night and the horrors of the all encompassing deep. I reviewed Dredge on Nintendo Switch. Link to Gaming in the Wild Podcast: https://gaminginthewild.carrd.co/ Want to discuss this game? If you're on Spotify answer the question below, if not, tweet me @switchindiefix. Please remember to subscribe and leave a review if you enjoyed the episode :) Adam's Backlog of shame. . . https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S89jikBVn_0lI6JMMl88nts1v8IXhmLR28qdJFcX92E/edit?usp=sharing Link to Beat Your Backlog Google Sheets template- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vJ5_femDP3MNJTO-AmpNe6TPK_cvEXfu?usp=sharing