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Best Setting 2023: Dredge




Black Salt's fishing adventure gets our Best Setting award this year—a sign that there's surprising depth to be found here. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 page...
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DREDGE is a finalist for the Steam Awards for Best Game on Steam Deck!

Hey Anglers,

We're thrilled to announce that DREDGE is a finalist for this year's Steam Awards for 'Best Game on Steam Deck' alongside so many other amazing games! We want to thank you all for supporting DREDGE in 2023.

Did you sail The Greater Marrow on Steam Deck? If so, consider voting for DREDGE in the 'Best Game on Steam Deck' category!

See more details here: https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/DREDGE/

DREDGE Update: v1.4.2

Hey anglers,

This update contains a handful of small bugfixes and performance improvements to the game. Check out the full patch notes below.

We’re hard at work on our next DLC, The Iron Rig, and are looking forward to sharing more about it in 2024!

[h2]Patch Notes:[/h2]
[h3]Adjustments[/h3]
  • Various optimizations to reduce the game’s memory usage and improve load times.
  • Reduced the volume of the Aurous Anchor’s portal idle SFX.
[h3]Fixes[/h3]
  • The grids at the ice shards in The Pale Reach now only accept ice axes.
  • Fixed an issue where some lines of text (at The Airman, and The Collector) would hang when run in some languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) with Text Speed set to “Fast”.
    • We’re aware of a few more instances of this occurring in some side quests, specifically when refusing to pick up quest items from NPCs. To avoid this, you can either:
      • Reload, and do not refuse the item.
      • Change your text speed to “Normal”.
  • Added missing ambient audio to the shrine in The Pale Reach.
  • Fixed a typo in the line that describes the dog vomiting.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/DREDGE/

Nominate DREDGE for Outstanding Visual Style - Steam Awards 2023

Alex will hate that we're doing this, but dang if the rest of us don't want this for him! We are unashamedly asking you to nominate DREDGE for Best Visuals in this year’s Steam Awards. This is why we think our amazing art director Alex Ritchie deserves such incredible recognition.

Being a team of only four people and with only a small budget, Alex has spent three years of his life compromising his ideal vision while still creating a visual world of incredible tone and depth. He's been able to mix 2D illustrations in a 3D world and make it feel right in this cosmic horror setting, not to mention has conjured up some pretty disturbing aberrant fish.



If you enjoyed your time in DREDGE and were able to immerse yourself in this lonely, forlorn world, please nominate us for Outstanding Visual Style in this year's Steam Awards and make Alex blush!

- Joel, Alex, Nadia & Mikey