DREDGE
Worth it · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.82.
- Length
- 9.7h
- Value
- $2.58/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 8800 GT 512MB | Radeon HD 6570 1GB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was October 2025. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 26 in the 4 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $12.82. The record reaches that level 13 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Darkwood ($19.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52).
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 967 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
9.7 hours to finish it, 21 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Still 517 concurrent players, 3 years in.
At 9.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
97% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
517 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Absolute cinema. Dredge is a little masterpiece where everything in the game is completely perfect. The art design is absolutely beautiful, the music is a total banger, and the story itself is a complete home run. On top of that, it is so incredibly well-optimized that you can play it perfectly on a potato PC without any issues. The world feels alive because the characters are so interesting, and each one comes with...
My Recommendation: If you are interested in DREDGE, wait until it is dirt cheap & buy the game with its DLCs. Before playing it, I had heard DREDGE being described as a Lovecraftian fishing game. I didn't take that description too seriously, it feels like every other horror game is Lovecraftian inspired rather than actually being Lovecraftian. But in DREDGE's case, it actually is. The deeper I got into it, the more...
I think this game is fantastic! i love the groove this game carves out of being thrilling and intriguing in its horror elements without actually ever being too scary. except when you are being chased, that's pretty horrifying. The tone in general, with the art, music, writting, and all of the creepy things hanging around really get you invested in seeing more and more of the game. I think the actual mechanics of how...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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DREDGE scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1562430/dredgeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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