Update! I finished DREDGE, but I'm in a bit of a rush, so I'll add my quick playthrough review later on. 👍
Edit: It's now later on, so here I am with my review.
For a fishing game, I'd give it an 8.7/10. I loved the boating and fish-catching aspects, but a few issues come in the form of not enough interesting or meaningful upgrades, and a general lack of reason to catch every (or almost every) fish. The game is a narrative story first, a fishing game second, and that's all well and good until you're right at the end and all you want to do is be done with it. I'm also not a fan of the fact that major quest items can either be lost overboard completely due to RNG, or that you can (without getting a warning) straight up sell off future quest objectives if you don't know they are important yet. (not 'main quest' items though, of course) As a 'horror game' though, I'd give it a 6.3/10. The horror aspect works well at the start of the game when it feels like everything can kill you quickly and you don't know how it all works, but mid to late game it all just becomes a chore. Not enough story bits to feel fully realized into something properly interesting, fragments perhaps, but not enough 'meat'. For me at least. I got both endings as well, the 'main' or 'basic' one was my favorite of the two, the 'secret' or 'true(?)' ending was alright, it just didn't feel worth all the work of the game versus the 'main' ending. Neither were bad though. One bit of bias I must mention as well is my complete and total burnout on all things 'horror'. I grew up watching tons of horror movies, read dozens of horror books, and watched hundreds of hours of horror game playthroughs on Youtube... (and movie reviews, how to beats, kill counts, etc) I'll suffice it to say that I am so completely uninterested in horror these days that my review of those aspects of DREDGE are almost certainly not what an average person might feel about the game, so take my review on those aspects with a huge grain of salt. Overall, I'd give DREDGE an easy 7.5/10. Great boating and fishing game, exactly what I was looking for. 👍