Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts

*For new comers, the first video on the steam page where you can assemble your hule is a lie. You have prefabricated hule and have to choose between premade one, but you can change the lenght, width and height. Anything else is a rough asset of a ship and some blueprint ships. Game is fun and have great mechanic that can make it fun for a while, but unfortunatly the game is half baked and feels empty. Be my guess. It is still something worth playing, but you might feel disapointment on the long run and seing the unfinished potential. Lost of bugs left. You can make a few interresting design, but since the game was updated for the last time, the only way this game will ever survive is if people start modding it to death. If you want fun naval fight, go play World of Warships or War Thunder. If you want to build ships from scratch, there are better games. If you want to play a Ultimate Admiral game or naval strategies, there are others. I might have played a lot, but that was because I thought the game would improve through time. That's a lot of hours I will not see again.

While it is sad to say that the game devolpers have had to stop supporting this game. they did leave a wonderful letter to all of us who bought the game after they stopped. yes i bought this game knowing it was a "dead" game. How ever fellow admirals do not dispare there is a wonderful game community that is not only keeping the game alive but improving the game fixing bugs and adding new content. for that i would thank brothermomo (his youtube channel) for the DIP (dreadnoughts improvement project) this really is a wonderful game and i would recommend it. and yes at the time of writing this i have 216 hours in the game after it closed

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My god, what a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The reviews were bad, but on youtube it looked quite playable and fun with mods. Unfortunately, it is a baffling study of incompetence in game design. You want to build warships? That works ok, a bit limited and strange sometimes, but fine. You want to attack enemy fleets? Well, you can't do that. Really. Imagine that for a game with admiral in the title. The game basically decides randomly if you get to fight an enemy fleet on your doorstep, and with which ships (!). You want to order ships around in a battle? Basically, you give suggestions to the game, and it then decides. Admiral? Yeah no. You can tell the ship it's allowed to fire, but you cant make it fire, or really control when and where to shoot. And sometimes, they also ignore your positioning commands. And then there are insane inbalances. If you lose transports, you economy suffers, and you ultimately have to pay to replace them. Fine. But you can't really control where the transports go and what they do, so they like committing suicide by sailing into enemy fleets. But the killer is: there is also a crazy "fine" (applied by god, or something) that directly and immediately ruins your naval budget. Early game, my naval budget is 30 mil / month, and my most expensive BB is 40 mil. Losing a few transports instantly costs you 60 mil / month, and you can't really control that. I had 200 mil saved up, and 5 months of minor transport losses, despite having fleets around, bankrupted me completely. Apparently you need to just know that and prevent iy by having fleets evenywhere, protecting your transports. Oh, and on top of this: it overwrites your manual saves, without asking. So now, my older saves, before I entered the transport cost death spiral, are gone. And these saves are limited to 5. Because it is 1988 and you have a 50 MB hard disk. There are a lot of nice details in this game, and it can be fun, but wow did they make massively stupid choices. Update: yes, I played some more. It can be fun, but also enfuriating. Still: can't recommend.

Honestly, this game is laggy, not well explained, has nations/features that are unrealistic, and doesn't have good force generation for battles. AI using their ships as designed? nope Hull Selection creates too little design variations. go play RTW3 instead

It's hard for me to give this game a thumbs down. I really, really want to like it as you can see by the hours I have, but I just can't. The main issue at the core of this game is that it's unfinished. Not just unpolished, unfinished. The UI is a mess, tons of features are missing and it still feels like you're playing a test build. I'm not going to blame the devs for halting work on this because of the war, but they did leave a lot of full-priced games unfinished and this is one of them. There are mods like DIP that make the game relatively playable but even then that can only help with the surface issues, not the poor game design, UI issues and absence of key mechanics and features. Beyond what's missing and what shouldn't be there, what works is fun enough, but after a while you'll have gone around and it gets real boring. There's some difference in ship components between nations, and starting in various decades will make things slightly different but otherwise the gameplay is very repetitive and, again, held back by the lack of many important features. The AI is very very bad in all aspects. The AI designs awful ships which makes the campaign a lot easier than it should be. You can build your own ship library for the AI to use or download a ship pack, but that's not exactly fun. In terms of tactics the AI likes to simply sail straight at you in a big blob, so battles inevitable end up with your ships circling the blob and shooting for thirty minutes until the enemy fleet is dead or you run out of ammunition. Strategically the AI doesn't make sense. It doesn't build balanced fleets, sends its ships at the other end of the world, and often doesn't protect its coasts. AI nations will almost always be at war with one another, meaning that after the first 20 turns only 2 or 3 nations will still have a decently sized fleet for you to fight. And it might take an AI nation 20 or even 50 turns before they can regenerate a big enough fleet to make fighting them interesting. But most of the time they'll stay at under 10 ships until someone finishes them off. The ship design aspect is fun enough, although you quickly figure out what works and what doesn't which ends up limiting what you can actually do and the economy system is awkward and very limiting. The game places you in the role of chief admiral and so you can't control things like army movement which absolutely do matter and seems to work based on RNG. The diplomacy system is clunky and doesn't really give you the tools needed to make it work. You'll often get stuck fighting battles against single destroyers or one or two light cruisers because auto resolve makes no sense. Two destroyers will sink three battleships and damage ten heavy cruisers. The forced autosave is very annoying as well as you can't savescum in order to mitigate some of the issues with the game. Overall if you're a navy nerd, sure give it a go. But if you want an actual enjoyable game with (re)playability then avoid or get on sale. TLDR: Unfinished, Bad AI, Boring after a while, Many features missing and half of what's there is bad.

If you are thinking of buying this, DONT. this game is abandonware that somehow brings my pc to its knees with basic stuff. Asking for a refund as this game is near total ass

Good game but it has been abandoned and is not complete