There is a little bit of unhealthy information in the event you’ve been wanting ahead to fishing horror Dredge’s first paid enlargement: developer Black Salt Video games has delayed its launch from This autumn this 12 months into 2024.
Extra Dredge, each free and paid, was confirmed to be on the best way again in Might, with the sport’s The Iron Rig enlargement – specializing in the machinations of the Ironhaven Company – seeking to be its most vital chunk of latest content material.
“Initially, we deliberate to spend a number of months crafting this thrilling addition and launch it in This autumn this 12 months,” Black Salt Video games defined in its delay announcement. “Nonetheless, as we progressed, we had been confronted with the fact that, given the time of the 12 months, we would want extra lead time to coordinate our advertising and make the launch as thrilling because it may very well be.”
“We had been genuinely disheartened as a result of we knew had made a dedication to all our devoted gamers,” the developer continued, “however we firmly believed there was just one path ahead and that was to delay The Iron Rig till subsequent 12 months.”
Whereas The Iron Rig has slipped, Black Salt Video games says it nonetheless plans to ship “an thrilling DLC to our gamers in 2023”. This mysterious addition will, it appears, even be paid content material of some kind, because the studio provides it will reveal “when it is going to be accessible and the way a lot it’s going to price” quickly.
Eurogamer contributor Edwin Evans-Thirlwell fairly loved Dredge when he reviewed it again in March, applauding its uncommon mix of fishing and Lovecraftian horror, whereas in the end concluding it was most likely extra profitable on the former than the latter.
