Dredge All Endings Guide – Bad & Good Secret Ending

Last Updated on 4 April, 2023

Dredge All Endings Guide – Bad & Good Secret Ending – All the steps to unlock both endings with explanations

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Dredge All Endings Guide – Bad Ending

These are the steps to get the bad ending:

1. In the main storyline, collect all five Relics.
2. Deliver them back to the Collector on Blackstone Isle.
3. Inform him that you are prepared to take the final voyage
4. Sail to the location indicated on the map (Coordinates G-8). To make it obvious where you’re headed, there will be a pillar of red light.
5. As you get there, interact with the question mark icon when it appears to start the closing cutscene.

You are effectively instructed to carry out this task, and if you just complete the game’s primary goal, you will arrive at this moment. There is a different approach, and because the game automatically saves just before step 3—where you lock into the final ending—you can go back and retry for a better outcome.

Dredge All Endings Guide – Good Ending (Secret)

These are the steps to get the good or secret ending:

1. In the main storyline, collect all five Relics.
2. Go south of Devil’s Spine to an unknown island via boat (map coordinates P-10)
3. You can dock at various ruins in the channel that runs through the island.
4. Dock here and talk to the Old Mayor, an NPC.
5. Before he instructs you to speak with the lighthouse keeper, pay attention to the entirety of his account.
6. Return to Greater Marrow, the beginning point. Find out what the Lighthouse Keeper knows about the Crimson Book.
7. Talk to the Collector on Blackstone Isle. Decide to keep the Relic hidden.
8. Press the issue anytime you are prompted and ask him for more information about his book.
9. Choose to approach and take the Book.
10. Return to the Lighthouse Keeper without giving him the Relic. Let her know you’re prepared.
11. Sail to the location indicated on the map (Coordinates G-8). To assist you in navigating, the lighthouse will maintain its beam pointed towards the location.
12. Decide whether to “Throw it back.”

The secret ending of Dredge reveals a plot twist that the unidentified main character and the Collector on Blackstone Isle are one and the same. You receive bits and pieces of the entire tale from the Collector, the Lighthouse Keeper, and the Old Mayor in the covert conclusion.

Before the game began, your character got married, and the two of you discovered the Crimson Book, also known as the Book of the Deep, which had been pulled up from the sea and contained terrible magic. A monster attacked the boat as they were departing with it as they were accompanied by others, including the Old Mayor of Greater Marrow.

Secret Ending Explained

The Old Mayor was driven insane by what he had seen and fled the town; the Lighthouse Keeper herself had witnessed the attack that claimed the life of the wife. The Book itself, however, wanted them to utilize it since it held the key to a variety of wicked powers, including the ability to call an eldritch god. In light of this, it erased the protagonist’s memory of the incident and gave rise to hallucinations in his head of The Collector, an enigmatic figure who directs him towards locating the Relics required to use it and suggests that it could be used to bring the wife back to life. This is the story you experience while playing the game.

Depending on whether you discover the truth, the conclusions change. In the unfortunate conclusion, your character never learns who the Collector is and assists in carrying out the ritual, believing he is bringing his wife back when, in fact, he is calling forth an old deity and the apocalypse along with it. In the happy ending, the main character learns the truth, rejects the Collector’s influence, and realizes that he has been carrying the Book the entire time. He then throws the Book back into the water in the hopes that no one will find it, only to be eaten by a sea monster—possibly the same one that attacked the ship at the beginning.

And the Monster?

The monster’s true identity is unknown; it may be a guardian of the Book, aiming to wipe off everyone who knows about it in order to prevent the eldritch deity from passing through, or it may be a monster sent out by the Book to punish the protagonist for failing to carry out the ritual. Both are feasible. or perhaps it’s just a leviathan at random that sees a free meal at sea level.