Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts

Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts

Skip · RPG · 2023

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The value isn't there at $34.99.

Length
14.4h
Value
$2.43/hr
Reviews
61% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
14.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
75.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.43
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$34.99
as of Sep 24
Reviews
61%
7,933 reviews, as of Aug 2
Players
350K
owners (estimate)
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7870, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Replayability~76h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 14h main story
Holding it back
Value$2.43/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews61% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length14 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds11 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

The value story

The lowest price on record is $17.49, set in June 2024. 22 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.

It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. On the same math UBOAT ($29.99, scores 67) and Ultimate General: Civil War ($29.99, scores 80) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 335 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 14.4 hours. Doing everything runs 76, 5.2 times as long.

It came out 3 years ago and 521 were still playing it at once, as of Sep 24.

Players

About 521 players at once, as of Sep 24.

Player counts via SteamSpy.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1069660/ultimate-admiral-dreadnoughts
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.

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