Games like Dread Admiral

Miss the replayable and tense pull of Dread Admiral? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Rogue Waters
A pirate tactical roguelite with a mean streak and a sense of humour. Command Captain Cutter's crew through two-phase battles: cannon fire first, then boarding fights where shoving enemies onto spikes is a legitimate strategy.
Replayable, Tense
75% of 991 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$29.99
Reclaim The Sea
Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a pirate fantasy world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events. Command your pirate crew, upgrade your ship and make tactical decisions to beat the boss and save the world… or die trying.
Replayable, Tense, Retro
76% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
HighFleet
Giant diesel ships duel in the skies of a desert world that has forgotten its own past. HighFleet mixes arcade dogfights with strategy: you track enemies on radar, intercept radio traffic, manage fuel and men, negotiate with factions and build your own fleet. Heavy, tense and atmospheric, with a prophecy waiting under it all.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
88% of 7,098 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$29.99
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
Design warships from 1890 to 1950, turret by turret and armor plate by armor plate, then take them into real-time naval battles or a grand campaign across ten nations. The ship designer is the most detailed of its kind, and the battles do your creations justice.
62% of 6,710 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 511$34.99
FTL: Faster Than Light
Command a small starship carrying vital information across a randomly generated galaxy. You route power, aim weapons, vent airlocks, and decide who lives. Losing means starting over, which makes every jump tense and every win feel earned.
Replayable, Tense, Retro
94% of 63,096 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,070$9.99
Abandon Ship
Command an Age of Sail ship in a dark fantasy sea, fighting ships, forts and sea monsters in tactical battles where every crew member matters. A Lovecraftian cult hunts you, the ocean itself turns on you, and death is only the beginning as long as the Captain lives. Oil-painting looks, brutal stakes, one more run.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
71% of 1,152 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
Red Rogue Sea
Red Rogue Sea is a roguelike strategy game that puts you in the shoes of a pirate captain and their crew. Manage your vessel as you sail through the treacherous waters of the archipelago, interact with the scum that inhabit it, and engage in battle using a tactical deck-building system.
Replayable, Tense, Retro
61% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$5.94
Void War
Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire. You juggle weapons, modules, and reactor power, stack artifacts into sharp combos, and send a crew of cultists, deserters, and worse into bloody boarding fights. Every run tells a new story, and none of them forgive mistakes.
Replayable, Tense, Retro
94% of 3,788 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 72$19.99
Her Majesty's Ship
All young naval officers dream of becoming Admiral, but few realise this can't be done without a loyal crew and keeping the vessel under your command afloat!
Replayable
44% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes and traverse a randomly generated galaxy to defeat the Erebus Platform. NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX
Replayable, Tense
63% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Airships: Lost Flotilla
Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour. Destroy your foes, harvest wreckage, and upgrade your ship.
Replayable, Tense, Retro
92% of 298 Steam reviews are positive$4.94
Breachway
A sci-fi roguelike where your ship is your deck. Pick a chassis, bolt on weapons and modules, hire a crew with opinions of their own, and fight tense turn-based card battles across the galaxy. Every run builds toward The Signal, and every run plays out differently.
Replayable, Tense
74% of 1,438 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99

Cheaper than Dread Admiral

Reclaim The Sea

Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a pirate fantasy world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events.

$11.99

FTL: Faster Than Light

Run a starship through a hostile galaxy, where one bad decision can end the flight and every new attempt plays out differently.

$9.99

Red Rogue Sea

Red Rogue Sea is a roguelike strategy game that puts you in the shoes of a pirate captain and their crew.

$5.94

Airships: Lost Flotilla

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour.

$4.94

Her Majesty's Ship

All young naval officers dream of becoming Admiral, but few realise this can't be done without a loyal crew and keeping the vessel under your…

$9.99

Distant Star: Revenant Fleet

BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes…

$9.99

Fleetbreakers

From the creators of Halo Wars and Age of Empires, Fleetbreakers is an action RTS roguelite with satisfying fleet combat in bite-sized sessions.

$9.89

Victory At Sea

Engage in epic RTS warfare across 3 huge campaigns as well as other battle modes.

$7.99

Hasbro's BATTLESHIP

Place your fleet, call your shots and outguess a real opponent in fast matches of naval combat.

$12.49

Flotilla

Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy.

$9.99

Dead Weight

Sail a flying pirate ship between floating islands, shove monsters off tiny battlefields and manage fuel, fatigue and creeping madness, one run at a…

$12.99

Naval Hurricane

Turn based tactical game about war at sea between British Royal Navy and Imperial German Navy during World War I.

$9.99

Hidden gems like Dread Admiral

Airships: Lost Flotilla

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour.

$4.94

Dead Weight

Sail a flying pirate ship between floating islands, shove monsters off tiny battlefields and manage fuel, fatigue and creeping madness, one run at a…

$12.99

Void War

Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire.

$19.99

Rise of Piracy

Sail, trade and fight your way across an open pirate sea where every run takes a different course.

$15.99

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

Guide a fleeing fleet of survivors across the ruins of the Twelve Colonies, one desperate FTL jump at a time.

$12.49

Deck & Conn

Take command of a nuclear-powered space corvette in a Cold War-flavored sci-fi campaign.

$14.99

Rule the Waves 3

Design warships across eight decades of naval history and lead them through wars that never happened.

$39.99

Void Marauders

Lead a band of space pirates and loot and pillage your way across the stars in this turn based tactical game!

$13.99

Boat Crew

Take a small PT boat on night raids across the Pacific, keeping your crew alive against ships far bigger than you.

$24.99

Hull Rupture

Manage power, people and a growing ship as you plug hull breaches and race toward the alien homeworld.

$13.49

Sea of Survivors

In Sea of Survivors, you can sail your ship in any direction but you can never stop moving.

$6.99

Rogue Waters

Lead Captain Cutter's crew through turn-based naval battles and boarding brawls, where every run brings a new map and new ways to win.

$29.99

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