DREDGE
Worth it · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$12.4950% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.58/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 57,998
- Genre rank
- Top 5% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.7h
- To 100%
- 20.9h 2.2x the story
- Achievements
- 60
Price and sales
- Sales
- 28 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 October 2025
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 740 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
97% start to 10% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 28 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $12.85. The record reaches that level 15 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 93 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 ($19.99, scores 52).
More about DREDGE
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 977 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
9.7 hours to finish it, 21 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
At 9.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 2 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Short, strange and better than it has any right to be. I want to spend some time on why. On paper Dredge is a fishing game. You have a boat, you go out, you catch things, you sell them, you upgrade the boat so you can go further and catch more. That loop is good on its own, the kind of upgrade treadmill that keeps you saying one more trip. If that was all it was I would have enjoyed it and forgotten it. But that is...
2 more reviews
Easy to pick up and play for a bit and come back to later. Runs very well on the deck, up there with the likes of Hades or Dave the Diver as just something perfect for Steam Deck Great music, ambient ocean sounds are cozy Artworks, characters and dialogue are all engaging and well done Have really enjoyed it so far
This game was super good light game and I played like 13 hrs and finished. Satisfied good for a plane trip international ran well on steam deck. I paid like 6$ for this wouldn't pay $20
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DREDGE scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1562430/dredgeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.