Video Gamers Podcast - Dredge Review - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

Gaming hosts Ace and Josh are back with another incredible indie episode and today we're deep diving Dredge. An indie classic that you've probably heard of, but maybe forgot about. This video game is unlike a lot of others out there combining both cozy and horror gaming genres. What's it like, how does it compare to other video games and is it worth your gaming dollars? Check out this awesome gaming packed episode to see if Dredge is something you should play! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf and Phelps  Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, Patrick, NorwegianGreaser and PeopleWonder  Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: ⁠https://discord.com/invite/Dsx2rgEEbz⁠ Follow us on Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/⁠  Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠  Subscribe to us on YouTube:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahoy, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast. Today, we're casting our nets into the murky waters of the most unique kidney fishing game I've ever played. The game may look simple on the surface, but it hides something dark and mysterious underneath its currents. I am your host Ace And joining me He is set to sail into the murky depths with me Into the dark and stormy night For a fish that's probably only worth about 50 bucks

It's Josh There once was a ship that sailed the sea And the name of the ship was a bill I don't know the lyrics but I kind of know the lyrics But I just decided I was going to give up right away on that one You guys always default to the Weller Man But I always default to the, like, the Mariners revenge song.

Really? I don't know. Which one is that? Sing it for me, Ace. You know. Oh, man. We are two mariners, the sole survivors. I don't know this one.

All right. I'm going to have this song. Yeah. You've never heard this song? I mean, I might have, but the other one's just one. My mind always goes to that one. That's like the catchiest sea shanty ever. It did get really big during like lockdown.

Have you ever been on a commercial fishing boat, Ace? commercial fishing boat no i've been on a like speed boat or a deep sea like deep sea fishing charter type boat or anything like that no they're a different i know you have worked on commercial fishing boats for those that don't know uh also i get seasick uh which i discovered when i took this job working on commercial fishing boats so man what a time to learn it was not a pleasant experience welcome aboard everybody today we decided on the spur of the moment that we were going to deep dive one of our uh our personal favorite little indie gems i think i could i think i could confidently say that about it yeah dredge so this is why right is like we we talked about this you and i have played dredge ryan has not ryan's in new york he has not yeah and we kind of went dude we need to talk about this game like we i recommend this game to a lot of people i can't remember who we we it wasn't our Discord server that actually was asking about Dredge.

And we were like, oh, absolutely, like, you should play this. Someone started it recently. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I can't, I can't remember the name. But it was like, this is, this is an absolute, like, you should play this game. So, spoiler people, we do kind of recommend this game to people. But, yeah, man, Dredge is, you know, we were talking pre-show too. You, specifically you, were the one that was hyping up Dredge's.

so much that you got me curious about it I wanted a little shorter non-involved game to play and I was like you know ace has been talking about dredge non-stop so let me pick this game up and the next thing you know like two days later I'm like bro I just beat dredge and I was like wait what I mean I'm always shocked if you actually pick up something off my recommendation I have a spotty record I can look at a game and this is an ace type indie or this is like a Josh type indie you know and that Josh type indies I'm in for man like inscription uh you know there's a lot of indies where I'm like okay this is right up my alley then there's some we call them ace indies where I'm like bro I don't know what deep dark

recesses of the internet you found this indie game I don't know how you found it you and jigglepuff man you two are like you know it's like there's a dark web for indie games out there where it's like nobody has heard of these things they're the weirdest looking things of ever seen in my life. If there's a barrel, we're scraping the bottom of it. It doesn't mean they're bad. It's just like, where do you find these games, man? What was your first impressions of Dredge when you started it? I will say this, dude. Dredge right away captured my attention.

You know, let's just start off with the premise of this game. You're a fishing boat. Your goal is to these quaint little islands, you're a fishing boat. That is literally your character. Uh, you, you're an angler with amnesia. Yep, yep, you have amnesia, so you don't know who you are, kind of where you came from. You're just on this boat. You go fishing. You can, you can catch fish. You dock at these towns.

It's, it's, I, I kind of joked around before we actually started recording. And I'm like, dude, it's like, oddly, this is kind of like a cozy game in a way. Like, where- It is cozy horror. Cozy horror. What the heck is that, man? That's what, like, Little Nightmares is. I consider that, like, cozy or. You think Little Nightmares is cozy?

I don't know. It's cutesy. It's not really that scary to me. It's not scary. Little Nightmares is eerie, but there is nothing cozy about little nightmares. Okay, yeah. I think cozy might be too far. Yeah, I was going to say. I take it back. I take it back. I just, dude, I remember the janitor with the long. Oh, yeah. No, that ain't, no, that ain't cozy. But dude, Dredge is literally the definition of a cozy horror game. And that sounds so baffling to my brain. And yet, that's 100% what this game is. That's what it is, and it works. That's the crazy thing. Dredge is a cozy fishing horror game, and it works. Like, we always make fun of indie devs for just throwing genres together,

but this is why they do it, because sometimes they strike some kind of gold like this. When you can pull it off and nobody else has done it, it's like, bro, you did it, man. Like, kudos to you. But yeah, it's a fishing game. You pilot a fishing, you are the fishing boat. Like, is there any moment in this game where you're not the fishing? boat? No, you never step out of the boat.

You are always the boat. Yeah. You interact with people as if you stepped off the boat. Like it's some kind of disco-alesian cutscene. You are still the boat. The boat is you. You are the boat. And it has this like painterly storybook aesthetic to it.

I like the aesthetic. It all looks like smudged and I love it. I freaking love it, dude. It makes it really stand out in a sea of other indie. Oh, are we doing the sea puns now? I'm getting it in on this. Oh, there's going to be sea ponds. You're kidding me?

Yeah, there we go. But yeah, no, I mean, instantly I was grabbed by the art style. I was grabbed because this boat drives like you would, your brain would expect it to drive. Like, it's just natural. It's like this is not a hard like, oh, no, I didn't mean to turn this way. It's not like steering a canoe where it's like, oh, no way. I meant to go that way, but I'm paddling on the other side. So now I'm just going in circles kind of thing.

Like this game right off the, right off the bat is just like, it's pretty. it plays well now what the heck is going on like what am I supposed to be doing in this game and it's not long before they give you a glimpse at that oh yeah no it's basically like you get through the tutorial where they're like okay we're going to teach first we're going to fix up your boat because you crashed your boat

your boats and tatters we're going to fix it up you can pay off your debt we're going to teach you how to fish and they give you a fishing rod and they just send you out into the ocean where there's like circles you park the boat and you just start fishing and that's kind of of the loop. You're just going to keep fishing up, you know, all sorts of things to fill up your

cargo hold. And it's kind of like a resonant evil four-esque, like, inventory management, man. It's inventory management game. I like, that's another thing that I liked about it is I'm like, oh, wait, I can only fit four fish on my boat. Look, what the heck? Yeah, and that's where, like, the progression comes in of upgrading your hole and your, and all the things like that, which I know you love the word progression. giving that progression. But overall, like, Dredge has a very simple gameplay loop of just fish up things, bring them back, and sell them. But it's what you can spend those things on and where you can go with that.

Because not only can you fish during the day to make a little bit of money, you could go out at night and see some horrible things. I love how this game transitions from the daytime cozy fishing to the night. night time, eerie, no, like, your field of view is super short now because it's dark and it's foggy. You can barely see a freaking thing. And then the starter light, man. The, the longer you're out, at the, the longer you're out, the more like your sanity meter goes down. And the more your sanity meter goes down, the more this, the horror part of this game starts kicking in. And it is, it is such a neat way that they did this from daytime cozy fishing to nighttime horror elements and yet if you're willing to fish at night you can catch some really weird fish that are super valuable so it's like you are

incentivized to go out at night and try to catch fish but now you're in that risk reward like phase of the game to where it's like are you really willing to push the envelope for this and and then but this is kind of what kicks off the story part of this game too because I think this game actually a pretty decent story behind it to where it's like I'd agree yeah don't you start off by like accidentally catching some weird mutant fish and bringing it back yeah you catch like a weird mutant fish and they're like you should bring that to the lighthouse or to the to the cabin by uh by the island over there not the lighthouse lighthouse lighthouse wants nothing to do with yeah she tells you to go away immediately it's like there's a curator over there in that cabin you should go

talk to him about this yeah and then you you bring it over to him and he kind of just starts this thing is like wow it's like an ancient fish there's some kind of relics in the ocean you should go gather those for me yep and it's like yeah all right i don't have any memory why not yeah i can do that for you but the game does such a good job of pointing you in the right direction like this is another thing that i really enjoyed with this game is you can you can play this game a lot of different ways you can just play it as hey i just want to fish dude i just want to go out i want to drop a line i want to catch some fish fill up my hold rinse and repeat play that, you know, you do get progression elements as you make money you can improve your

boat and things like that. So, you know, again, I love progression and this game feeds you that progression perfectly in my opinion. Yes. It's very good at that. It dangles that carrot of like, hey, you're deeper, now you're out at sea. You're deeper out at sea and you can see fish, but you can't catch them because you don't have an oceanic fishing rod. So it's like, oh, I need an upgrade to be able to do this. Okay, well, that keeps me going because it's like, well, how do I get this oceanic fishing rod now? You know? And that's where you bring in the dredging up scrap because not only do you have to, you know, sell fish, make money, you've got to dredge up your own parts for your, for your boat. Yeah.

But then the game does this thing where it starts to introduce the story to you because of this weird mutant fish and then you take it to this guy and he's saying, hey, there's things going on around here. There's these magical relics. I'll tell you what, I'm a collector. So if you get me some of these relics, I'll reward you handsome. and then the game just kind of sends you on your way out of this beginning kind of tutorial area and you can't venture real far because don't you have fuel I can't remember if you have fuel or not in this game there is a limit to go you can go wherever you want is it just the time oh it's the time of day is that that's the limit of day if you don't have an engine that's fast enough to get you there you'll be stranded in the middle of the ocean and you do not want to you don't want that dude you better you better you better you better make it back to the little seaside fishing town where there is safety before the deep of night hits and that that mechanic alone leads you to these terrifying moments where you have gone a little bit too far like oh I caught some fish way out here I've got a hold full

of valuable fish I might have gone a little too far I don't know if I'm going to make it back before like before you just see a giant fin go right by you or some like horrible scaly tail the terror that a fish can bring to you when you were trying to just race back to town and the world is going crazy you're seeing things like this game does a really good job of like the hallucinatory effects too

where like you said like something is chasing you now or you know your vision just completely goes to almost nothing and it's like you better remember which direction you were going game does a masterful job at just creating this sense of tension it's really kind of hard to explain but when you are playing it you just go i don't want that again i'm going to make sure i start heading back like before it gets dark because i don't like what was happening yeah i you got to get brave you got to get real brave real fast but you do but the problem is is that there is you know there's nothing in the game that ever makes nighttime easy like

you know you mentioned it you can get better engines and again well you know back to the progression part of this where it's like you can absolutely part of the gameplay loop is upgrading your boat you know and you get faster engines you get lights so when it is getting dark you can kind of see further around you so you don't get lost because the worst thing to do is not know which direction you were going and getting lost at night yeah you can get better fishing rods that allow you to fish in deeper waters to catch more valuable fit and like you said, getting scrap and things like that, there's points of interest all over the map, but sometimes you can't quite make it to those because you need upgrades to your boat to be able to do that. And that loop of upgrading your boat, being able to go further faster and explore new areas to catch better fish,

to upgrade your boat, to go further still, and get these gear to get a bigger hold so you can hold more fish to different abilities that you get where you get kind of like a turbo boost. At one point, but the turbo boost comes with a cost where it's like... The overheats.

Right. You know, and so this is all this stuff kind of ties together to make this game, just the gameplay, not talking about the story of the environment, just the gameplay loop, insanely satisfying to me, man. Oh, yeah. You're like, you're always having something to do or something to upgrade or work on. You're like, I love this. I love having something to always do. It keeping me distracted from the horrors.

below me. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, honestly, like, everybody knows I love progression, but I, there are few games that feed you that progression so well and so steadily. And at the same time, it's like if you want to work for that progression, you can and you can focus on that. But if you don't necessarily want to grind some progression to upgrade your boat, there are plenty of points of interest in story elements to distract you as well. Yeah. I'll do the story the story really starts to take off uh specifically like you you're sent to each of these like little islands to gather a relic for the collector every time you bring one back to him things start to unravel more and more for you to the point where you bring the final one back

and do you remember what happens oh i remember what happens yeah we're going to go ahead spoil this is massive spoiler for dread wait are we spoiling it i mean the game's been out a while it's been out like a while i don't know man it's a twist i don't like what it would it's such a good one though i know but i don't think you should spoil it man this is okay fine we can talk about this we'll talk about the story but don't spoil the twist i won't spoil the twist i think i would like to think that people are going to play this game because it's if it's not clear we're this is this is an easy recommend from both of us oh yeah no we're not hiding how we feel about yeah but i i say don't spoil it i know the game's been out a long time

but it's like this is one where it's like if yeah i think maybe you're right i think that is the draw maybe to like seeing seeing this through but you you the whole point is to collect these things but also every time you collect them you gain like a new eldritch ability for your boat yes which is really cool freaking sweet yeah yeah i mean at this turbo boost i think that's the first one you get if i remember right but it's like yeah you get the turbo you can override your end overdrive your engines but it causes damage to your engines and i think it also lowers your sanity meter or something like that. I can't remember, but there is a cost to using it.

I will say this. And you don't want your engines to break. No, no, you don't want your stuff to break. You don't want that. Yeah, it's expensive and then you're limping back and then you're probably going to get stuck out in the ocean at night, which again is terrifying. They do a really good job of that. It's neat to me because this game, I'm just going to go back to the progression, but not

only is the progression in your boat and your abilities and the capacity for for your boat to do different things. But the progression part of this game is almost like these circles that it constantly expand through the map as well. So that as you start playing the game, you start discovering these new areas and these areas all feel different. They all have a much like a unique vibe to them, you know,

a difficulty increase in how you navigate things and how you have to interact with things on around these islands or maybe you're trying to pilot this like really narrow, you know, chasm and not crashing your boat and doing damage to your boat and things like that. But it's like, I remember the first time like going to an island like way off in the distance and then realizing that like, bro, this is like a whole new area, man. And I'm supposed to be here for a little while because there's quests here now. And I'm catching all new fish. I'm meeting new NPCs that need my help with this and that. Who's this crazy guy? What the heck's he talking about? Wait, he knows somebody that might have some information on this

relic that I'm trying to find like okay let me go talk to this guy and it just it's like I said it's it's a really neat way to just constantly keep you moving constantly keep you wondering about the story constantly discovering things and all at the same time you're constantly upgrading your boat and kind of finding new areas and doing new things it's like it's it's really really good dude yeah it's super good at that dude I love it and I really do like you said I really love how much they were able to put into just water. It's not just water. Now you're in a mangrove swamp.

You're going over this giant whole reef where there's a giant monster in the abyss below. And if you go over top of him, you really shouldn't. Yeah. Like we were talking about like memorable zones in gaming. That's one of them. That freaking giant monster below the pit. And then there's the little like atoll islands that where all of a sudden

everything's like bioluminescent, you know? It's like super dangerous area, but like now it's nighttime and everything's bioluminescent. I'm like, dude, this is beautiful, man, but also really deadly because you can't run into any of these things. But then again, it's like you need samples of things. So you're out there constantly looking for these samples or this very specific creature that you need to catch that this creature only lives in this one biome area. So it's like you have to figure out how to fish in this biome. you have to figure out what the signs are to catch this rare creature

because when you do that will give you part of the recipe that you need to unlock this thing that's going to let you get this relic and the overarching story of this game is finding these five relics so you've always got that that you know

main quest line so to speak but then you've always got these little quests that you're doing you know for for various people or boat upgrades or convenience items or more money so that you can do those things too.

Yeah. The fact that there are five different like island groups to the map on this really does a good job of not making it feel like you're just cruising around like an empty ocean. Yeah, I agree. Dredge's world feels very alive.

It feels very lived in even though you would never want to live in yourself. No, uh-uh. There's people that What is it, Thalasophobia, right? Where it's just like fear of the ocean. Yeah.

This game? Not for you. No. Don't play this one. You know. Skip this one. This will really freak you out because there is a lot under the surface of the water in Dredge. All right.

We're going to take a quick little break, but we'll be right back. All right. We've been talking about Dredge. We've been talking about all the good things about Dredge and what it does right. Where do you find shortcomings with Dredge? I'll be honest, dude, there's not a lot. There isn't. There really is not a lot of downside to this game.

The only downside that I remember from this, and you kind of mentioned it, is that you, there is a part of this game where you kind of go into this mangrove swamp area. And it's a little maze-like. And I remember it's the only time in the game where I was, I was kind of struggling to, like, find the items that I needed to find. And I feel like I spent probably an hour or two, just put, putting around in my boat to try to find whatever this, wherever this little area was, it was a guy or it was something that was in one

little corner, this kind of maze like mangrove. And I remember, I specifically remember going, this is the only time I didn't enjoy this game, dude, is this one little area. And it's not a big part of the game. But I remember when I finally finished that up and I got out there, I just remember going like, oh, thank God. Like everything, everything else is just. super interesting, you know, horrific, scary, enticing, progression-oriented, a neat biome

or something, that stupid mangrove swamp, I was just like, dude, I just want out of here, man. Yeah, I did not like the mangrove swamp either, especially because, like, the, the gates would just, like, pop up randomly and you'd slam your boat into it and you'd lose something or break something. You're like, no. Or there was only one path. I was almost out. You had, there was only one path through this maze, and it was like, I kept going. into dead ends and I'm like it's right there like why can how do I get to that area you know I could see him he's standing there field of view is always limited you have limited field of view and it was like okay well it's right there but then I'm trucking I'm just making loops around this thing

I'm getting lost like to me when we talk about downsides of dredge like that is it dude like and I know that sounds crazy but it's like that was the one part of the game where I felt like the progression slowed down, the exploration slowed down, and it kind of just, compared to everything else was like the glaring weak spot for me to where I was just like, I just want to get out of these mangrove area, man. That's fair. I think maybe there's one other small downside for dredge, and that is it could get tedious to some people.

Some people are going to get tired near the end of the grind of, you know, get this fish to get this, to get this. And it's like, okay, I get that, but also that's the game. The game is fishing. It's really weird because I do. I'm the kind of person that tends to get bored with repetition in a game. But with dredge, like I never felt like it was repetitive for the sake of being repetitive. It was the do you want this next upgrade?

You know, and I will say that you don't need every upgrade in the game to be able to beat the game. If you're like a completionist or somebody that just enjoys that loop, you can go further than you need to to actually beat the game. But like I never found the repetition part to. feel like it was detracting from the game for me because you were always working towards something and so it's like okay well i don't need to chase this carrot anymore my boat's plenty strong for what i need to do i'm just going to go focus on the story now but if i wanted to i could and it didn't feel like i was forced into that yeah no they do a fantastic job of making it not feel like a grind to just play the game and it's like okay i love that i love that we've

gotten to the point where you're not making me feel like i'm i'm wasted time. Right. Or you're buying time, basically. You've made this game longer than it needs to be. I think Dredge is the perfect link. I literally just Google this because I think this is a, I do know that there are people that are like, well, the game should have been longer, right?

Like, you know, if I'm going to pick a downside, it's that I wish I had more of this. But Dredge is, it's a 10 to 12 hour game. That's it. It's 10 to 12 hours. And it does have two DLCs if you want more. Like, but that's the perfect length for a game like this. dude like that 10 to 12 hours is perfect it respects your time it is a thoroughly enjoyable game from start to finish in my opinion and it doesn't overstay it's welcome like to me so many games try to fluff their game time their play time by like we just you know we're silk songs all over the place right now and there are a lot of people we talked about this in our silk song episode where it's like dude sometimes i feel like they're just wasting my time the run back to bosses you know why dude And I get that it's only a 60 second, 40 second run.

But when I have to do that 30 times, guess what? That adds up, right? And Dredge is like the opposite of this where it's like it just, it respects your time. It gives you constant progression. It doesn't overstay. It's welcome. It's fun. And then it's just done, dude.

And honestly, I don't think I would look at Dredge as favorably as I do if it tried to do more. And if it tried to be a 25 hour game, dude. Because it tries to be a. cozy short game it succeeds it doesn't try to force anything on you and i'm impressed by it because it proves you don't need jump scares to have a scary game no by the way you don't need loud noises in jump scares you just need to set that atmosphere and also you know put a ton of fog in front of me so i don't see the rock right yeah oh oh dude the amount of times that you accidentally just blast a rock it's like if you ever like run over something in the road in your car or like hit a pothole or

something. And you know how your whole body just kind of tenses and you're like, uh, and then you're like, okay, the car still works, right? Like, that is dredge when you crash into a rock. Like your whole body, you just kind of go like, full speed. Okay, yeah. And then it's like, okay, am I sinking?

No, okay, I'm all right. Oh, okay. Okay. So before we wrap it up, why do you think dredge is so, you know, forgotten and put to the wayside? Because it's, it stands out. It is a game of its own genre. There's not a lot of it.

Like, it's, It's special. Like, why doesn't it stand out? I know why it doesn't. Well, I think I know why it doesn't stand out. I have talked to people that have played dredge on a recommendation and they go, dude, this game is fun. It doesn't do anything unique. Like, that's the, like, I think the, the, if you're trying to say why is, it is unique

in the sense that it is a cozy horror game. But when you take dredge as a whole, it does not, it's not like pushing the envelope. It is not introducing gameplay mechanics that nobody's ever seen before. Like, all of this stuff is things that people have seen, things that we have done. But in my opinion, it is put together in a perfect little package to where it's like, again, you know, not to just, you know, sound like a parrot, but it's, it's the perfect length. It gives you constant good progression. It's got an interesting story. It's got an interesting art style.

But there, it is, it is the very definition of a jack of all trades. and a master of none. You know, like some games have that hook where it's like, bro, this hook is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a game and it will carry the game. Dredge doesn't do any of that. Like, it doesn't push the envelope.

It doesn't reinvent the wheel. It just takes everything the gamers are kind of familiar with a no and puts it together in a tight little package that is very enjoyable in my opinion. But I also can understand that it's like there is nothing that stands out. about Dredge on its own.

And I think that's why it might hold it back for some people a little bit. But again, it's just a perfect little package, though, man. Like, it doesn't need to necessarily push the envelope on anything. That's my opinion on it. Because, again, I don't hear very many people talk about Dredge, except for us, you know, but I don't know.

What do you think? Like, that's my thinking is that it's just, it's like it doesn't master anything, but it does everything that it does really, really, really well, but not excellent in any one aspect. I think you're on the money with that, honestly. I think it is just because it doesn't have a hook. It doesn't have that special something that makes it really stand out in a,

quite frankly, oversaturated market of games right now. So, like, I mean, you look at dredge, but then you could also look and see Dave the diver, and you see the screenshots of dredgers, it's the ship. Like, oh, well, it's just a frigging boat. Why do I care about the boat? And then you look at Dave, you're swimming around in the ocean, all these monsters and things like that. It's like, well, I want to play Dave the Diver.

Yep. Yeah, I mean, Dave the Diver stands on its own. And it does, it does things that I think we haven't necessarily, I don't want to say we haven't seen before, but it's like, Dave the Diver is insanely memorable. I mean, it's a really, really good game. Kind of took the world by storm for a little while. I think it's part of Dave the Diver is it storytelling. and the likeability of Dave and the fact that it feels like it's like kind of two to three games in one with like the sushi restaurant management and then like the going out and catching fish part but then you've got this weird story it's a lot deeper and right yeah but it's like but you did have a crossover with dredge I well that and that's what's funny is it's like I do think about these two games kind of when I think about one like the other one kind of comes to mind man and it's like yeah sure go fishing games okay well I get that but it's like but they're both just just

fun games to play man and neither of them get the respect they deserve quite frankly david diver gets a lot of respect they have a little bit more so i don't think dredge gets the respect it deserves like in all honesty i don't i don't think it gets the respect or the notoriety that i think it deserves but i think as gamers were spoiled and we want that like that experience that we've never had before i want that memorable gaming moment that i'll think about for a really long time and it's like dredge doesn't really give you any of that but sometimes you just want to play a good video game that doesn't require a ton of thought doesn't require a ton of effort you know like that you can just sit and play for you can play for 30 minutes you can play for three hours it doesn't

overstay it's welcome it's not complicated like and again it is we kind of joked at the beginning that like it is literally the definition of like a seven and a half an eight out of ten games and I think that is absolutely spot on, dude. You know, like, it's not blowing your mind. We are not saying that Dredge is going to just knock your socks off. Yeah, no. But if I had the bet that you would leave Dredge going, I enjoyed that, guys.

Like, that was, you know, didn't shake the earth or anything, but, like, that's a fun video game. That's what it is. No one I've recommended who picked up Dredge was mad about it. No one was like, oh, I don't like this game. It was like, oh, that was a great game. Thank you for the recommendation. Yeah.

That's usually how it goes. You're not going to write home about it. You're not going to start shouting it from the rooftops kind of thing. But like, you're glad you played it. Yeah, it was a good time. All right. We're going to wrap it up now. But if any of you have played Dredge or are considering playing Dredge, be sure to

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