Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts

⚓ ULTIMATE ADMIRAL: DREADNOUGHTS "The Wet Dream of Naval Architects" Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is the only game that allows you to answer the question: "What would happen if I put ten 400mm guns on an 1890s hull?" It is a simulator spanning from the era of steam and wood to the steel colossi of WWII, where design is just as critical as marksmanship. 🏗️ THE SHIPYARD: YOUR TRUE BATTLEFIELD The heart of the game isn't on the high seas; it’s in the Ship Designer. Total Engineering: You must manage displacement, deck weight, armor belt thickness, engine types, and turret placement. The Weight Dilemma: If you add too much armor, the ship is slow; if you add too many guns, it becomes unstable and your shots will miss. Finding the "Sweet Spot" is an addictive technical puzzle. Technological Evolution: Watching your fleet progress from simple turrets to centralized fire-control systems is a real-time lesson in military history. 🌊 CAMPAIGN AND COMBAT Naval Geopolitics: In Campaign Mode, you manage a nation’s entire fleet. You must decide whether to build a few expensive, ultra-powerful "super-ships" or a swarm of cheap destroyers to suffocate the enemy. Realistic Ballistics: Combat utilizes an advanced physics engine. Shells have trajectory and penetration variables, and they can cause flooding or magazine explosions if the armor fails. 📊 QUICK COMPARISON: DREADNOUGHTS vs. WORLD OF WARSHIPS Feature Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts World of Warships Design Full custom scratch-building. Fixed historical ships. Control Real-Time Strategy (RTS). 3rd Person Action (Arcade). Realism Very High (ballistics, weight, engines). Medium (balanced for multiplayer). Focus Single Player / Global Campaign. Competitive Multiplayer. ⚖️ PROS & CONS THE GOOD: Creative Freedom: You can create absurd naval monsters or exact replicas of the Bismarck or the Yamato. Tactical Satisfaction: Seeing a design you spent 30 minutes on sink the entire enemy fleet is unmatched. Historical Depth: Highly educational for any fan of military nautical history. THE BAD: Steep Learning Curve: At first, your ships will likely sink themselves due to poor stability or weight distribution. UI/UX: It’s functional but feels a bit like a "spreadsheet simulator" in the campaign menus. AI Quirks: The enemy fleet can occasionally make bizarre tactical decisions. 🏆 FINAL VERDICT: "RULE THE WAVES" Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is a niche game, but in its niche, it is the undisputed King. If you enjoy reading about the Battle of Jutland and have a passion for engineering, this game will steal hundreds of hours from you as you chase the "perfect" battleship design. Admiral’s Tip: Never ignore Destroyers. An 80,000-ton battleship can be sent to the bottom by a single torpedo from a boat that costs a fraction of its price. Always escort your giants.

Abandonware! This game has been abandoned by a worthless publisher, more interested in skinner box mobile games. The dev team had something great here. It has exceptionally fun moments and it really scratches that lego/autism/dremel and glue itch to build and test out designs and strategies. However it is overall a buggy mess. Due to the publisher/owners lack of class, character and integrity it will likely languish in the dumpster.

Poor explaining of controls and how to actually play the game, the pre-set battles are completely boring and stupid, as no matter what i tried i consistantly got bodied by light cruisers and other smaller vessels because it spawns you about 400 meters from the target, and doesnt actually let you use your big guns. on top of that the gameplay is incredibly boring as all you do is set the direction and speed of your ships, and thats it. from what i found it had very limiting and odd shipbuilding mechanics and UI, none of it was clear or easy to understand. the graphics are rather poor as several times ships clipped into the water, or rubber banded. overall poor experience with it being to complex to understand and the gameplay being boring.

good game but unfinished...there are numerous modders who have mods for the game though i do feel theres only wo much you can do. The base game is meh at best...if you want to play it id recommend you used a modded version

No more update or support for the game, but, i knew that before buying so that's not the point. What is absolutely egregious are the basest of bugs still present that shouldn't even be present in a pre alpha release. I had completed some of the naval academy mission to learn a bit of the game and then i did something, what ? i don't know, i didn't reset my game data, it happened while in game, all of my progress resetted. Add to that the studio that made the game and the lack of update and trust me you'll be better off playing "war on the sea", true you won't design your own ships but at least the game isn't only half playable and the devs actually love what they made.

I quit playing after 1000 hours. Then I quit playing after 1400 hours. Then I quit playing after 1800 hours. Now I'm playing again.

fun

Its a really good game at its core and it is really fun to play, especially the campaign. The real only major problem I have encountered is when you update the game and launch it your saves are evaporated. which is infuriating because i had 2 saves on separate versions of the game that i had spent 40+ hours on. The first one was lost because i didn't know of this problem. the second one was because i had uninstalled the game for a bit and reinstalled it and there must have been a hotfix or something because my save was gone. overall good game and really fun campaign if you dont mind your save being deleted with any update.