Reminder: Dredge's New Expansion Update 'The Iron Rig' Is Out Now

I loved Dredge at first, but on finishing it I felt quite underwhelmed. It felt like it was hinting at having so much more content but it just... Didn't come.

E.g. the amount of crafting materials throughout the world was well above what you needed. Plus you could just... buy it from the travelling merchant?

The number of fish you just don't need to catch at all was massive. And what was the point of trophy fish? Was I missing a massive part of the game?

Anyway long story short I'm not getting this DLC

Had a great time with Dredge, thoroughly enjoyed a second play through with the first chunk of DLC, third time around would hope for a new perspective, game mode, mechanic, something beyond just more fish and locations to keep things fresh. That said I'll probably quite happily invest in it anyway next time I fancy fish based fun, and it's definitely a game I liked more than enough to go back to, so...

I love it as a chill game and I can't wait for this DLC, hope it has some cool new eldritch horror monsters to sake my apetite. Ia! ia! Ftagn Yog Sothoth!

Just got the game for free on playstation plus and I like it so far, although I wish there was more guidance. Went to the volcanic area first (after starting area) and kept getting destroyed. Is there any reccomended path?

@UltimateOtaku91 yeah you should go to gale cliffs (the bottom right area) first. From there you unlock an ability and have opportunities to get some money relativity easily

Oh and from memory no special rods are required to fish there

I actually started this on Plus today as well. I'm liking it so far. Funny playing this and Dave the Diver side-by-side.

The game gets boring after 20h .

@premko1 Yeah, but those 20h were a heck of a lot of fun. That's just a little over $1.00 an hour, which is pretty good imo.

@YourDaddy It's not that deep, man.

Finally! Really looking forward to this. Dredge is the perfect "autumn" game, so this new content releases just in time. I finished the base game a while back, so will start a new playthrough with all the DLC.

@AnonyQ Due to the lack of hand-holding, there is a less optimal way of playing this game. This is mentioned as a con in the NL review as well.

In hindsight, my playthrough would have been more enjoyable if I had done the ship upgrades and followed the main questline in tandem. Focusing on ship upgrades too early, will make later quest sections too easy.

@Qwiff yep totally agree

I think they should have at least made it so there's a fixed number of upgrade material available and if you lose it from damage there's a trader who'll charge you a good amount to get it back

@CazSonOfCaz Fully agree , but this is a kind of game that schouldnt bore the moment after you finish the story IMHO

Great maybe they'll put the pale reach on real sale and I'll actually buy it. But I hate that they keep adding more stuff, I mean it's cool, but I want to just get the game and play it

Actually looking now they have both expansions for 13, which is pretty reasonable, I don't feel done dirty by it.

I played when it came out on PS plus but get bored after 6-10 hours.
I had a lot more fun with Dave the Diver, was a blast and the dlc's were free!
Complete edition of Dredge is very welcome for those that didn't bought the game on its release and for those that bought it then is a dlc bundle for about 15€.

Loved this game, was waiting for all the DLC to come out before I did a second playthrough.

Ok is the "Complete Edition" actually going to be complete? Or are they going to bring out more and therefore make this edition also pointless

Really unfair that the new physical release is only available through the collector's edition.

@AnonyQ agree with all your points. But that might be a reason to buy the game. To finally use everything. The dlc with extra weapons seemed so useless as welk (didn’t buy it). Did continue to catch all fish

@Blueyesowl83 dave the diver is great. Its dlc’s were very short though. Hope for a
Proper one. Would buy a deluxe edition

This was a much better expansion from the first one. Expanded on everything in the base game and gave a reason to revisit all location for new aberrations.
Already 100%ed it again but took about 5 hours or so compared to the first expansion that barely took an hour to do.

@AnonyQ
The game excels in the first half, and like any Lovecraft themed work you are right that it teases a payout that doesn't quite live up to the journey. As far as these things go I thought the game did a very good job of wrapping it up.

I started a new game to play Iron Rig in tandem and so far I am having fun coming back to the world. The DLC demands a lot of material so solves that problem for you. At the end of the day you have to like the deep sea pokemon collectathon to get the most out of it. It's like Hoenn all over again.

@premko1 More games should be this tight honestly.

@koopababble very good points. Personally without any reward at the end for catching them all I didn't find the need to, but I understand others might differ