Dredge: The Pale Reach Review (BitterCupOJoe)
TL;DR: It's... fine.
I liked the base game a lot. It's rare that I get all the achievements in a game, and I did with Dredge. For its price, it was a great little 20 hours. This? Not so much.
The value of the Pale Reach DLC can be determined by how much of the main game you have left. For someone that's done everything in the base game, this adds maybe two or three hours of real play, a couple of items that have no utility outside of the DLC, and a couple of marginally more useful ones. The new zone is a pushover, but it does have a couple of fun bits of lore. There are more fish to catch, but that's as much of a crapshoot as it was in the base game; you'll find yourself going in circles trying to trawl the last fish up, just like with the other islands.
On the other hand, if you're either just now buying the base game or maybe at the midpoint of it (on the first, second, or third biome after the starting island), it's probably worth picking up. The two items that are middling for an experienced player with a built out fishing boat are actually very useful for someone who isn't quite there yet, and the expansion zone will probably feel more challenging.
I gave this a thumbs up, but it's a very tepid one. For the cost of a Starbucks, it ain't bad. It's just not great, either.