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Dread Admiral

87% positive of 81 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Tescrin Games.

About the game

Dread Admiral is a turn-based naval roguelite where every ship you lose is gone forever. Forge a floating empire, fend off the Black Fleet, and protect your Flagship through a brutal campaign to destroy the Dread Admiral himself.

Tagged by players

  • Real-Time with Pause
  • Naval
  • Perma Death
  • Roguelite
  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • Naval Combat
  • Difficult
  • Hex Grid
  • Tactical
  • Turn-Based Combat
  • Wargame
  • Strategy

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Can feel very difficult at times but it's quite fun and has enough difficulty settings to not be an issue if you don't like it. The NPC Banter is enjoyable and the prestige system means you can keep grinding out a more powerful roster as you go. Dev is active and helpful, fixes issues faster than I've seen anyone else do.

    84 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    The initial learning curve is brutal, but is far, far less so than the demo. It's otherwise a surprisingly engaging fleet tactics game, which is generally most cutthroat at the start even with the option to reduce player snowballing enabled. I'd even argue that it achieves the apparent modern rarity of having relatively deep tactics/strategy due to the perks and flagship upgrades. It is also a "love letter" to a…

    15 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I wanted to like this game since it combines the naval combat from Panzer General with roguelite mechanics, but I found it incredibly unbalanced and unrewarding its current state. For me, the entire game concept makes ZERO sense. I thought it would be roguelite in the sense that one battle might give you 3 submarines at the end vs the second option would give a cruiser. I was expecting the difficulty to be utilizing…

    1.6 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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