This game is fucking great.

i thought i would love it but it's really just a tedious collectathon

Doesn't go far enough
I wanted Sunless Sea fishing edition but it plays it way too safe in every aspect.

>>714472621 (OP)
it's okay, but it doesn't really use its core loop for anything in the longer term. You pretty much understand what the whole game is going to be within like 3 minutes

>>714473079
At least we got Sunless Skies.

I really like it. will I enjoy sunless sea if i liked it?

i watched some videos and sunless sea looks more like a visual novel than a game so much fucking reading

>>714473345
There's a ton of reading in Sunless Sea, because it's a successor to the browser game Fallen London. It's more of a CRPG than a VN in terms of gameplay, though.

>>714473321
Sure but that's a different mood entirely.
>>714473345
Maybe? They're both about the sea and eldritch shit and yes it's very text based, you sail between islands and gather stories and goods while managing your supplies and sanity and dodging threats, and maybe doing much more in the process.

>>714473668
I honestly drastically prefer the vibe of Skies, verging on dieselpunk aesthetics is much more my preference

>>714474039
It's the better game and I'm not afraid of saying it out loud but it's hard to resist the call of sea so I wanted Dredge to not be so tame.

>>714472621 (OP)
Boring game. Next game make the fishes 3D let me see them get reeled onto the boat and flop around instead of just a minigame with a drawing of a fish the whole game. Seriously how the fuck is this considered a great game what in the fuck happened to people's standards for fun. Are normalniggers just so stressed with work they conflate boring shit like this or empty worlds that they can relax in as fun?????

Speaking of "boat/train ride in the dark" games, I'm really fond of Sunless Sea's jankier clone. The storylines were more interesting.

I liked it but didn't bother finishing it
Very SOVLful game

>>714474180
Couldn't have as much sex with abominations, though.

>>714474358
>Rubbery Man
>dolphin dicked mermaid
Small time

>>714474991
I got with Mr. Apples in Skies.

My biggest complaint was that there wasn't major changes in hull visuals after upgrading it.

Does it ever go beyiong fishing game where you catch weird looking fish sometimes?

Im not really into fishing games, but i like the idea of a game where you explore supernatual seas with a little ship while things get progressively weirder

>feed an abomination to the fishmonger
>after he comes back absolutely nothing else happens
>help a woman build a house so she can live alone in the middle of nowhere
>absolutely nothing happens to her
>any implication the mayor of town is up to some shady stuff
>goes nowhere, of course
>get high terror to read the black obelisks
>just boring descriptions of a post-apoc world
>feed all of the deranged cultists
>nope
>collect all the letters from your dead wife
>nada
>expecting any depth to anything at all
>lol

>>714476967
>game about the sea
>no depth

>>714473345
If you don't like reading you'll get nothing out of it, it's got some of the best prose in the medium, that's the selling point. You might still enjoy it if you're really starved for that sort of atmosphere.

>>714472621 (OP)
Where the fuck is the photographer? I remember the mayor mentioning that he is down south but I can't find him.

>>714476569
>Does it ever go beyiong fishing game where you catch weird looking fish sometimes?
No, and that's its biggest failing. You keep expecting it to go somewhere but it doesn't.

>>714477518
The fish monster spooked me the fuck out when I was fishing in the night so it doesn't go anywhere beyond that?

>>714473345
Sunless sea has maybe the best setting and overall vibe I've ever seen in a game, but yeah it's mostly reading, and it's not the easiest read either (t.esl)

https://youtu.be/0TOLgs-f_Bs?si=Yql2-PDsZcmwziHF

>>714477658
Each zone has a unique monster, but for some reason the most threatening one is in the very first zone. The second monster is basically just an environmental hazard that's easy to deal with, the third area has some neat gimmicks, but the monsters are killed permanently and quickly, the last monster is also barely a threat, more annoying than anything because they gut your movement speed and spam high pitched audio squeals.

>>714476569
There's giant sea monsters you have to escape from occasionally but that's about it

>>714475459
Objective FACT: Mr. Apples is pregnant with eldritch eye babies if you warn it off the ultimate aims of its quest. It becomes 'Multiplicitous', and you're the last creature to have sex with it. That means it's pregnant, that means you got it pregnant, that means it's a female and neither of us are space-bat-gay.

>>714472621 (OP)
that's great

>>714477730
Some of the prose in this game is among the most colourful and esoteric I've ever seen. I couldn't imagine how an ESL could read it. It would be like someone trying to fanTL muramasa.

>>714479449
The Sun got The Bazaar pregnant with a mountain made of diamond.

Amalgamy is a crime against the laws of the Judgements and the Chain specifically because it's a crime against nature.

>>714472621 (OP)
I liked it too, but it gets kinda boring by the end.
The DLC are fun.

>>714480125
>Some of the prose in this game is among the most colourful and esoteric I've ever seen.
I 100% agree with this. My favorite arc might be the Sigil-Ridden Navigator.

>>714472621 (OP)
not bad at all but it felt a little fetch-questy at times
still i look back on it with good feelings

>>714477658
There's a little cult shit/mystery investigation storyline but the game ends before it gets too crazy. Still worth one playthrough imo.

>>714472621 (OP)
I enjoyed it but I wish they took the horror aspect of it a bit further. The game needed some more semi-random encounters with actual threats and monstrosities. I only ever saw the giant snake once and it's one of the cooler enemies in the game

>>714479449
Counterpoint: seahorses
Would romance regardless of sex anyway.

>>714480312
Ironhaven feels like something that should have been in the base game for how well it integrates and improves the experience. The ice one was meh sidegrade stuff but it's cool to have an icebreaker on your hull and it was nice to get more time with the pontoon lady that can do everything. The other ones aren't even worth mentioning, one gives you a crap engine and the other a charm for catching abberants.

>>714472696
you hit the nail on the head, after some time I just got bored of collecting

>>714480998
They should've either gone further with it or pulled it back. Either make the monsters something that give you real consequences and you actually have to combat beyond driving over heat vents, or go the other direction and allow your dude to make truces/pacts/peace with them so you can do your fishing as a pacifist. The one foot in one foot out way they're implemented just feels like wasted effort on non-bosses that are really just zone hazards. Like the cliffs one, you could just as easily make the need to flee come down solely to rocks falling.
The way they did it I think keeps with how eldritch horror books are written, you can't win or fight in any meaningful way, just delay the inevitable, and that works in a book or in a game where you're trapped somewhere, but you're on a boat that can easily blast away from them with no effort at all. It just doesn't work for the kind of gameplay this has.

>great
That's going too far. I would go call it just good. Simple and comfy game. Like a 7/10. Exploration, boat upgrading and visuals are nice but every mission is a fetch quest, fishing is very basic and the "horror" aspects are a joke. Is lame too how some quests look "special" (soldier tags) but the rewards are more ship tokens you can get any time by resetting the store.

I didn't play the DLC though, I heard they're not very good.

>>714482285
>soldiers tags
That shit sucked. I thought for sure at least one or two of them would give me a unique rod or engine, not ANOTHER FUCKING BOOK.

>>714477730
For me, it's the Mount Palmerston theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pGmGHeCvs

>>714484683
The unique rods and engines you get from the slabs were all a disappointment as well, you'd think for the effort of finding the secret spot and delivering the specific items before they rot away you'd get something better than a tier 2.5 item when you could go to the store for a tier 5 item at any time.

>>714484828
For me it's Terror Track. I don't know how they managed to concentrate pure dread into a one minute loop, but god damn man, those building drums fuck me up every time.
https://youtu.be/uKrGqDirMus

>>714485059
Yes, man, it was so weird, I didn't even buy the individual mangrove/volcanic rods because I unlocked the double immediately, eventually had to go back and buy them to upgrade them for oil slick fishing in the Ironhaven DLC. If they ever make a sequel, I hope they put a lot more effort into the upgrade trees and quest rewards.

>>714480125
Well I've read a bunch of english books, some that can become pretty abstract, and a lot of confusing books in my main language (french).
But yeah sometime I have no idea what the fuck is going on. It fits really well with the ambiance of the game though.

>>714486314
omle du fromage

>>714472621 (OP)
Dredge is afraid of strong male characters while featuring multiple Mary Sue:s.

>>714487335
you were supposed to be the strong male character, bubba...
>>714472621 (OP)
stellar basin ftw

>>714486314
Fellow frog here and yeah the prose is a bit hard to follow at times but once you get used to the style it's fine, I've sunk close to 300 hours in both sunless games combined and I'm not counting the cultsim and book of hours.. hours lel
It's great honestly, english isn't know for being a very expansive or creative language but these games are written in a style that is both so british and so alien at the same time that it feels like another language entirely, except it's one you can understand.

>>714487335
It's funny because Airman is the best and most competent person in the game.

Gets boring around the second area
The sanity tricks are neat the first time around, tiring afterwards
It would've worked much better as a flash game

>>714487335
Why are wokes so good at making good games? When are chuds gonna start making fun games?

>>714473079
This. I felt like there was just zero threat to the world after you get your boat even a little upgraded. I ruined my playthrough by bumping into the oil rig early and had to force myself to play handicapped or the game would be pointless

>>714472621 (OP)
dogshit non-game
all the dlc should have been baseline for the insane price they're charging, the base game isn't even a finished game

>>714480297
Look man, the Judgements are having their civil war thing going on, Chain's broken, glory to the ||Khanate||

What does Dredge have in the simulation gameplay department? I don't care about HP Lovecraft or some shitty indie story, I want to explore, hunt fish down, upgrade, make money (without shitty timers making me spend $$ on a town upgrade or else), buy bigger boats.

>>714493728
None. You catch the ~3 unique fish for an area. Do a fetch quest. Upgrade your boat with a generic upgrade that lets you identically catch slightly more fish. Change 'story' areas, repeat. There's zero reason to farm or re-catch fish, and less than zero reason not to just beeline every 'story' objective.

>>714494475
yikes ok ty

>>714472621 (OP)
waaaaaaay too expensive

>>714472621 (OP)
dredge is what you get when you mix mobileslop with reddit storytelling

>>714496705
There's practically no story at all, which is infinitely better than reddit storytelling.

>>714472621 (OP)
haha naaaaah, it's actually quite boring and the art is garish and downright ugly. Even if that was the point you don't have to be so in my face about it.

>>714472621 (OP)
I enjoyed the setting and lore, but I feel that the fishing aspect becomes irrelevant once you've upgraded your ship enough.

Also apparently it got a crossover with Dave the Diver. Take that as you will.

>>714497265
you were le bazinga collector entire time and wholesome pupper leviatharino was protecting you from heckin chungus cthulhu

>>714497529
Crab pots in particular made actual fishing pretty obsolete.
>Buy a crab pot
>Sleep since time is a mechanic without consequences
>Crab pot made some money
>Buy second crab pot

>>714498031

>>714472621 (OP)
This game is great but extremely short.
Plus the nets basically invalidate the whole fishing mechanic, as you can do whatever sidequest you want without needing to do shit.

>>714472621 (OP)
60 minute game dragged into 10 hours

>>714497627

>>714472621 (OP)
It's fucking boring is what it is.

>>714499614

>>714472621 (OP)
It's fun but nothing about it is scary after the twenty minutes. Also the damage mechanic was just annoying

>>714499696
Not captured: Feeding the Dredge cultists who pay well but scare away your regular customers.

>>714493728
it absolute garbage
>set out fishing line
>cursor goes around circle
>click on green parts
>arrange fish in inventory like RE4
>sell for money
>use money and planks you fish up to upgrade boat
>max out boat in like 1 hour

>>714498031
You forgot about the wife.

>>714498426
Money hardly matters anyway since you're gated by materials.

>>714474161
The history of hobbies is relaxing things. People have stress from work and daily life and family so they do fun relaxing things in free time, like whittling or just drinking beer. You are a fat neet with zero stress, though, so your body is crying out to be utilized via stress in some way

>>714498031
Why was your shit scattered anyway? And it it wasn't even yours it makes even less sense.

>>714493728

>>714493728
You cannot fail this game

>>714493728
>gain max insanity
>literally outrun every pursuing monster
the lovecraft theme is bait and is badly implemented

Anyone got the webm of the boat getting eaten by that huge leviathan in broad daylight?

Are you trying to get me to buy this while it's on sale?