Games like Dread Admiral
If Dread Admiral is your kind of game, the closest matches are Capesong, Compacted and Gladiator Immortal — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Dread Admiral: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Dread Admiral also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Capesong
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Top pick for Dread Admiral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dread Admiral.
A plan-and-clash strategy game for buildcrafters and matchup theorists. Create original superheroes and send them into simultaneous turn-based combat where the right read can be the difference between life and death.
StrategySteam ↗Compacted
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dread Admiral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
A slot machine roguelite where every spin is a fight for survival. Upgrade five symbols, choose run changing items, trigger jackpots, and repay escalating debts before the walls crush you.
Gladiator Immortal
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dread Admiral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
Gladiator Immortal is a turn-based fantasy Medieval Gladiator Roguelike game where you manage a team of warriors who fight for the entertainment of the gods. Build up your town, hire and level up warriors, find powerful weapons and armour, learn and develop new skills and win favour with the gods.
HOPIATE
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Ranked #4 for Dread Admiral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
A roguelike deckbuilder about day trading on someone else's money. Read a live market, time your exits, and stack cards that multiply what every winning trade pays. Five days to clear the target. Miss it and the account is gone for good.
Guildrun
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Ranked #5 for Dread Admiral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
Turn a simple team into an unstoppable force and crush waves of monsters in this PvE autobattler roguelike. No two runs feel the same as you bend heroes beyond their class roles and discover countless combinations and synergies. Seal the rifts at your own pace and uncover what tore them open.
Reclaim The Sea
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Ranked #6 for Dread Admiral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
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.
Montabi
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Ranked #7 for Dread Admiral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi in this Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
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Ranked #8 for Dread Admiral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dread Admiral at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Dread Admiral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Dread Admiral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~44% under Dread Admiral on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
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Priced ~56% under Dread Admiral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~55% under Dread Admiral on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dread Admiral.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~55% under Dread Admiral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~91% under Dread Admiral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~55% under Dread Admiral on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dread Admiral.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dread Admiral.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Dread Admiral
- How much does Dread Admiral cost?
- Dread Admiral is listed on Steam at 11.19 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dread Admiral?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dread Admiral are Capesong, Compacted, Gladiator Immortal.
- Who developed Dread Admiral?
- Dread Admiral was developed by Tescrin Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Dread Admiral.
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