You hate to see a great idea bogged down by a poor execution. The amount of time it takes for Dredge's Lovecraftian creatures to go from scary, mysterious entities to annoying enemies is shockingly brief, and I don't mean that in the flattering "you become as inhuman as they are..." way. When you strip away the Lovecraft magic, and it fell away all too quickly for me, Dredge is just one of those dopamine drip-feed, continuous upgrade games with an extremely short gameplay loop.

I understand that this game was the team's first, and I hope they can use the success to refine their game design skills.