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Players navigate a fishing vessel to collect aquatic specimens and upgrade equipment while managing nocturnal hazards. This title launched in 2023 and has reached a total of 30,930 reviews on Steam. The game currently maintains a 96% positive rating, categorizing it as overwhelmingly positive within the platform's ecosystem.
Overview
DREDGE is a 2023 Adventure game developed by Black Salt Games and published by Team17. On Steam it has gathered 46,565 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Black Salt Games with publisher Team17 is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.1 million to 4.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, DREDGE can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
46,565
Positive
96%
Steam appid
1562430
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
637
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.02.1M to 4.9M
units (median: 3.5M)
≈ $29.9M to $69.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for DREDGE at roughly 2.1 million to 4.9 million copies, with a median around 3.5 million, derived from its 46,565 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $49.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
54 observed days · window low $8.70Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.70 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $8.70 on 2026-06-21.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -15%$24.23 Buy
- Steam reference$24.99 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- GOG.com$24.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 13:04 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Tags
ExplorationFishingLovecraftianAdventureOpen WorldMysteryInventory ManagementAtmosphericPsychological HorrorHorrorRPGSimulationSingleplayerStylizedSurvival HorrorPsychologicalStory RichIndieSailing3D
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DREDGE sold?
- indielist estimates DREDGE has sold between 2,095,425 and 4,889,325 units (median 3,492,375), derived from its 46,565 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed DREDGE?
- DREDGE was developed by Black Salt Games and published by Team17.
- Who published DREDGE?
- DREDGE was published by Team17, developed by Black Salt Games. See Team17's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was DREDGE released?
- DREDGE was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does DREDGE have on Steam?
- DREDGE has 46,565 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is DREDGE worth playing?
- Steam players rate DREDGE 96% positive across 46,565 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like DREDGE can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Outer Wilds, Mouthwashing, Blue Prince, The Room Three, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Black Salt Games's other releases and Team17's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where DREDGE sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same DREDGE page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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- O
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- M
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- B
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- T
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- G
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Shared tags: Story Rich, Singleplayer, Adventure
- I
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Shared tags: Exploration, Atmospheric, Adventure
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