Dredge takes fishing games to the next level with unique fishing mechanics, a large world to explore, over 100 different fish, and of course, the creepy aberration monster fish. Plagued by an unknown influence dripping through every vestibule of the ocean, the world of Dredge features mutated fish that are rare to come by but sell for significantly more than normal fish.
If you’ve got the Blackstone Key DLC, you’ll have the Sign of Ruin that you can equip to increase your chances of fishing up an Aberration Fish. Without it, you still have a good chance to find aberrations, especially if you fish in disturbances that have a special glow over them.
Snag Squid
Decorated by an assortment of human teeth, the Snag Squid is a horror among horrors in Dredge. Imagine hauling up what looks to be a squid, only to be greeted by a hundred smiles all at once.
One can imagine that the Snag Squid would make the worst calamari, full of bones and teeth that even the Tooth Fairy wouldn’t dare touch. Fish or trawl for the dentist’s nightmare in The Marrows.
Bursting Anglerfish
Based on an anglerfish, the Bursting Anglerfish has Xenomorph vibes with a second mouth jumping out of its first mouth. Imagine reeling up a fish that’s latched on with its tongue; even with its teeth chomped down on your hook, you’ve got to watch out for that bigger set of jaws from crunching down on you.
The more you look, the more questions you start to ask such as: Which mouth is in charge? Is the small mouth a smaller anglerfish that’s been grafted onto a host? Catch this alien fish in the Stella Basin abyssal fishing zones.
Collapsed Viperfish
Imagine being so deep in the ocean that your internal organs are forced out by the pressure. However, thanks to its mutation, the Collapsed Viperfish is chosen to endure such a tragedy; swimming and existing with its insides stuck outside of it. Find this existential horror in the Open Ocean abyssal fishing zones.
Vortex Interloper
Being stuck in a world where creatures are mutating and becoming monsters is bad enough, but this fish is being slowly sucked into another unknown dimension.
Painfully and dreadfully being stretched and torn apart by being pulled into a wormhole is an unfathomably unfair punishment for this fish, but if the world of Dredge is just, then even more terrifying is what this fish has done to receive such torture as penance.
Charred Sunfish
Deep in volcanic waters, it seems it’s possible to get third-degree burns even surrounded by the ocean. The Charred Sunfish invokes the feeling of peeling skin and losing body parts.
The fish must exist in incredible pain, swimming through scorching waters while bits and pieces of its body fall off and sink into the void of the ocean. Bring relief to this fish by finding it in the Open Ocean oceanic fishing zones.
Rapt Shark
The Rapt Shark is the Joker incarnated into a fish. A mutation of the already creepy Ghost Shark, the Rapt Shark gives the impression that by catching it, you’ve fallen into its trap.
Its smile might be telling us that something worse is coming our way or that we’ll be cursed to work on this never-ending fishing journey. Catch this portent of doom in the Devil’s Spine in the abyssal fishing zones.
Medusa Octopus
One gnawing mouth full of teeth is enough to scare us from any number of creatures, but the Medusa Octopus takes us one step further with a full set of eight writhing tentacles, each ready to snap and gnash on our fingers and hands.
This eyeless beast doesn’t need much to find its prey, the eight snarling tentacles are more than enough to do the job. One can imagine that after enough time without food, each tentacle begins to cannibalize its siblings in a fight for survival. Find this abomination in the Stellar Basin with a rod or a crab pot.
Cleft-Mouth Shark
If a fish could keep a secret and taunt you with it, the Cleft-Mouth Shark would be it. Its smirk somehow is laughing at us in our fruitful attempts to search the oceans for relics in Dredge. What does this shark know that we don’t?
Its tattered fins and tail show that it’s seen its fair share of bouts and knows everything it needs to. Hopefully, catching this shark in The Marrows can ease us of the idea that the world knows something about us that it shouldn’t.
Voideye
The longer you stare at it, the more sucked in you get. The Voideye aberration is mutated from the Barreleye fish and is quite a monstrosity. While its body seems normal, its entire head has been enveloped by its singular eye, opening up wider and wider as if to suck in not only food but the presence of anyone that beholds it.
Even its description hints that inside its eye is a never-ending void: “A perpetual pattern repeats… The Abyss burns through you.” You can find it in the Stellar Basin abyssal fishing areas with a rod.
Defaced Skate
A tail that looks to be composed of a human skeleton should be the creepiest part of any fish, however, the Defaced Skate somehow pushes past this. While this is a mutation of a skate, similar to a stingray, this aberration looks like it’s mutated past the threshold of a fish and into the realm of humanity.
The melted face of the skate with human teeth and eyes is beyond frightful and would terrify any fisherman that gazes upon it. Fish or trawl for this monstrosity in the Devil’s Spine and put an end to its misery before it mutates any further.