DREDGE
Developer Black Salt Games
Dredge is a 2023 video game developed by Black Salt Games and published by Team17 that combines genres of fishing, survival, and horror. It follows a fisherman who faces Lovecraftian creatures as he fishes and explores an open world consisting of five archipelagos. As the game progresses, the player can upgrade the character's fishing equipment and abilities. It follows a day–night cycle; the day is serene, while… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
120 reactions from 2 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
Sentiment labels for these sources are still being hand-checked; no score yet.
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
120 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
What people are saying
A written summary appears once the title has a score.
Reactions
60 of 120 · most liked firstBlack Salt Games has officially begun pre-production on our second game! With the team focused on our next journey, development of DREDGE has officially wrapped up. Our next title won't be DREDGE 2 but will be exploring a brand new world that the team is eager to share more about in the future.
unlabelledView post →NEW ZEALAND Christchurch-based developer of indie hit game "Dredge" put money where the millionaire sailing clique won't even look. The Hector's Dolphin 🐬 needs protection. Sailing boats need to stay away from them.
unlabelledView post →Hi! I'm the music composer and sound designer for DREDGE and I am officially looking for new work !! If you've got a cool game that needs audio of any kind. Please reach out. My DM's are open. Here's a few of the cool games I've done the music and sound design for! 🔊🎵 #gamedev #indiegamedev
unlabelledView post →And I actually made some direct Dredge fanart when the game came out! Just realised I had never posted it to bluesky so here it is:
unlabelledView post →One way to avoid feeling pressured into liking a game that everyone is talking about is to simply not play it until several years after everyone finishes talking about it. Anyway I started playing Dredge
unlabelledView post →🎮: Dredge Started this today, Spent the entire day playing it and will spent the rest of the day playing it too 👀 As someone who has Thalassophobia, Dredge is proving to be quite the horror game for me 😭
unlabelledView post →Our new title, Indie Game Works, explores 50 visionary independent titles including Cairn, Tunic, GRIS, Valheim, DREDGE, 1000xRESIST, Genesis Noir, Abzû and A Short Hike, among many others, bringing together in-game imagery, development artwork, and early sketch material.
unlabelledView post →This is a creature design inspired by @blacksaltgames.com's Dredge and it's cool aberrant fish, using a local endangered species as a base! Go give the game a look! And if you want more weird fishes, here's another one I made! bsky.app/profile/vald...
unlabelledView post →they tell you not to release a game on a friday but true masochism is releasing one on xmas day. DREDGE is now free on EPIC. happy xmas from new zealand
unlabelledView post →Just finished Dredge. Great game!!
unlabelledView post →Dredge is a cool game #isthisfloss
unlabelledView post →#art #fanart #VideoGameArt #Dredge I love fish - they're such great subjects because they're so shape-y! I also love the video game Dredge - it's so full of delightfully shape-y fish :)
unlabelledView post →my partner has been playing the game DREDGE for a couple of days, which means our apartment sounds like a melancholy french café for hours on end, which i'm not mad about
unlabelledView post →More games like Dredge. Cozy staple video games but with cosmic horror. Fishing game, but cosmic horror? Yes. Golf game, but cosmic horror? Yes. Solitaire, but cosmic horror? Yes.
unlabelledView post →12. Dredge The relaxing and engrossing fishing gameplay with minigames and inventory management settles you into a rhythm where you sometimes won't notice how dark it's getting, when the nightmares come out... it's that contrast between the chill and the chilling that makes this game so special.
unlabelledView post →Update the ocean system, The buoyancy effect works better, and I can also generate a vast sea. I was inspired by a making-of video of Dredge Game #indiedev #unity3d
unlabelledView post →Anyone have any cozy game recommendations that have a spooky theme?? I've already done Graveyard Keeper and Dredge so I'm looking for something else 👀
unlabelledView post →🐈🐟 Now live - playing a very normal fishing game (DREDGE) twitch.tv/mangoloocosp...
unlabelledView post →Well, now I have two games about eldritch fishing I love -- the Dredge video game 😭 and the Deep Regrets board game. Maybe I need to look for more? Are gross, mind destroying fish my jam?
unlabelledView post →🤯 Oh, hey, come see us talking about @yarnspinner.dev and @blacksaltgames.com's #DREDGE at @officialgdc.bsky.social! schedule.gdconf.com/session/dred... #GDC #GDC25 #GDC2025
unlabelledView post →I'm playing this truly excellent game called Dredge that asks the question: what if a fish was fucked up? what if you got lost at sea in the middle of the night and some leviathan rose up from the abyss to chase you until your nightmares became real? would you like that? yes? then I highly recommend
unlabelledView post →DREDGE might be my favorite """""cozy""""" game
unlabelledView post →The next game being given away by Epic for the 2024 holidays is DREDGE, a game I would consider an essential #SteamDeck title. It is only free for 24 hours, so go claim it now and don't miss out: steamdeckhq.com/epic-giving-...
unlabelledView post →You will like my indie game if you played these games: - Dredge ⚓ - Skyrim 🗺️ - A Short Hike 🗻
unlabelledView post →My fav new game from last year, Dredge, is currently half-price on Steam, should a relaxing fishing game with Lovecraftian monsters appeal to you.
unlabelledView post →my weird feesh I did after playing Dredge :) That game changed my life fr
unlabelledView post →'Dredge wasn't originally going to be a narrative game, but then it became one of 2023's best' by Aron Garst www.gamedeveloper.com/design/dredg...
unlabelledView post →*starts sweating profusely hoping nobody subpoenas my achievements list for Dredge, a game where you overfish deep-sea animals*
unlabelledView post →I’ve been saying I want to play a video game for the past 6 hours, but instead of booting up my PC I’ve been watching my wife play DREDGE
unlabelledView post →Bought a game for my Switch called Dredge, where you pootle around in a fishing trawler, fishing and doing tasks, with lurking dangers at night. It's very satisfying, I think I might make it my whole personality for a while.
unlabelledView post →Fiancee bought me Dredge! It's a cute fishing game, with nothing untoward happening in it at all! www.twitch.tv/jimmy_wuffster
unlabelledView post →my banner picture is heavily inspired by DREDGE which is, genuinely, for realsies, a fairly relaxing fishing game. #art
unlabelledView post →Good Omens x Dredge I LOVED this game so much and I also cried at the end. I really recommend it to you folks✨ ~ I want to start to do more crossovers with Azi and Crowley. I’ll sure do some spoilers on the other site next week💛 #goodomens #dredge
unlabelledView post →Congratulations to @blacksaltgames.com and @team17.com on winning Best Mobile Game for Dredge at the Unity Awards!
unlabelledView post →I've been playing Dredge all day. Do you like nautical stuff? Do you like spooky stuff? Then you should also be playing Dredge.
unlabelledView post →Yooooo! @blacksaltgames.com I was spoi-led this Christmas!! #dredge #nintendoswitch
unlabelledView post →Games like this are why I love Magic. - Oops vs. Dredge (the dredge master MahfuzVanGogh) - Game 2, Turn 17 - I'm dead at next combat step - I draw Undercity Informer and machine gun sacrifice my 1/4s to mill out the dredge deck. Achievement unlocked ✅
unlabelledView post →A good friend gifted me Dredge, and this thing hooked (sorry) me instantly. What a fantastic game
unlabelledView post →The playtest for Dredge Quick and Drown is live, for free, on my itch! Its a game sort of like if you took the Southern Reach Trilogy and set it on the edge of Ankh Morpork. Its also about the only part of Dark Souls that matters: the poison swamps. juniper-h-lark.itch.io/dredge-quick...
unlabelledView post →DREDGE (Switch / PS4 / PS5 / Steam) digital release is 60% off: bit.ly/4czTWH7 $9.99 lowest price ever Great spooky season game!
unlabelledView post →You will like my indie game if you enjoyed: - Pokémon 👾 - Dredge 🐟 - The Minish Cap ⚔️ - Kabuto Park 🐞
unlabelledView post →#HorrorWritersChat Hey, I'm Anna and I have got horror stories in two anthologies right now. My favourite horror games are Limbo and Dredge. Limbo has some very cool puzzles, (be aware of its content warnings though). Dredge is a cozy horror fishing game.
unlabelledView post →Finished my journey through Dredge--and both of its DLC expansions. Absolutely loved the atmosphere of this game.
unlabelledView post →would be interesting to partner immersive stuff with indie game dev, to build out a "constellation" of stuff? like imagine a Dredge video game -> then a Dredge immersive experience where you stay on a New Zealand fishing boat and haul fish and die, etc
unlabelledView post →2023 Game of the Year Deathmatch, Round 1: Spider-Man 2 vs Dredge aftermath.site/2023-game-of...
unlabelledView post →Back to Dredge! Felt like doing some more totally not spooky fishing game! www.twitch.tv/covertcanine...
unlabelledView post →bogleech.com/dredge Been reviewing fish from DREDGE as I play the game, most of which I streamed on twitch! Soon to add a whole lot more, and in the coming week probably finishing the game over one last stream.
unlabelledView post →That game DREDGE...how are there no comics yet? Did I miss them???
unlabelledView post →#Dgar is playing #Dredge with @Cilla. She has the mouse and is making all the decisions, I have the keyboard and in charge of driving the boat. Marketed as “Lovecraftian Horror”, this polished little title from indie dev team Black Salt Games in New Zealand has nailed the atmosphere. The opening sequence has the protagonist crashing their boat onto rocks during a thick fog at night. You wake to the face of Mayor who informs you that your boat is lost, but not to worry, because the town is in…
unlabelledView post →We played a board game tonight that was clearly inspired by Dredge. As a Dredge lover, I was pleased. (The game is Deep Regets)
unlabelledView post →In the rare few hours I have these days, I've been on a "zen" game kick, but finding it in the most unusual spots. Whether it's the fishing horrors of DREDGE, the heavenly creations of PLANET CRAFTER, or battling heathens in ANNO 117: PAX ROMANA www.patreon.com/filmcrithulk...
unlabelledView post →The Dredge from #deadbydaylight the board game.
unlabelledView post →Me playing Dredge (I loved the game).
unlabelledView post →It's has been nearly two years since I played Dredge last time. I don't believe I finished the game, and there is DLC for it as well. I do remember not everything is as calm as it seems 🎃 www.twitch.tv/the_angriest...
unlabelledView post →No stream tonight, folks. I'm taking a rest after a sleepless night, a panicked scramble to make it to a job interview on time, & a therapy session. Should hopefully be back tomorrow if physical therapy isn't too rough. Probably play another chill game like Black Book or DREDGE. #Vtubers #Vsky
unlabelledView post →Now Live with DREDGE! Dredging up Hallowstream some more! ATTEMPTING to get spooked by this game is genuinely hard. Also Retrogamecon: what I did & saw this weekend Twitchery 🛶 twitch.tv/jackijinx Youtubez 🎃 youtube.com/live/A_YjWk8... #gaming #streaming #indiegame #dredge #hallowstream #halloween
unlabelledView post →❤️ Live now with our spot in the Raid Train Central's Fishing Extravaganza Raid Train! It's my first time ever playing DREDGE, and I'm super excited; this game has been on my wishlist since it released, and it's finally time for me to try it out! 🐟 www.twitch.tv/chrysuscoris 🐟
unlabelledView post →OMFG YES, BASED DANDY IS BASED! No joke, Dredge has kinda become my comfort game over the years. I love just cruising around to fishing spots, pulling up a catch or some treasure, running from the occasional beastie, etc. It's a lot of chill, creepy fun 💖💖💖💖
unlabelledView post →I just recently replayed Dredge, a banger. Truckful looks like a similar vibe but it's a truck. There's also Easy Delivery Co which is another spooky delivery game but it's kind of Playstation J Horror and you drive a Kei truck.
unlabelledView post →₊⊹New video is up! ₊⊹ Let's play a totally chill and normal fishing game where absolutely nothing bad happens :] ── ⟢ youtu.be/4JqJ2Q_WcG0?... [ #dredge | #gaming ]
unlabelledView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.