Dread Nautical

"The many elements of Dread Nautical culminate in a formula that makes it enjoyable to chip away at the challenging campaign."

"Dread Nautical has a fantastic minimalistic art style with a classic polygon feature that adds to that retro feeling."

"GOOD - Dread Nautical is a tactical turn-based RPG with some roguelike elements. Mixing these elements with a compelling story, interesting characters, and the classic risk and reward systems works well. Ultimately it reminded me of the board game Clue …"

"This game has been so much fun to play. Even when I am cursing at the screen during a boss fight, Dread Nautical has me coming back for more."

"Dread Nautical offers minimalistic graphics and gameplay. The core gameplay loop is too repetitive to be interesting beyond a few hours. Survivors, combat, and looting all needed to be fleshed out more to create more engaging systems. Dread Nautical is …"

"Dread Nautical could be a good game if it had ... more. Basically, more of everything. The tasks are exciting, like rescuing people or collect resources, but somehow, I still don&s;t find much delight in it. That&s;s mainly because I&s;m …"

"We were hoping to find in Dread Nautical an uncut gem. In the end, we received a game that does not live up its potential and becomes monotonous pretty quickly. The lack of variety and depth turn this interesting concept …"

"Dread Nautical is an interesting title that is unique in its core concept. It doesn’t ham up its sense of foreboding, nor does it hammer you with difficulty in the lowest setting. Its user friendly approach wants you to enjoy …"

"With its engaging story and enjoyable combat mechanics, Dread Nautical has the potential to make a splash on the Nintendo handheld. Even after making it through the demonic ship, there’s enough variety and a strong enough combat system to encourage …"

"With tons of character customization options and non-irritating procedurally-generated level design, Dread Nautical has enough meat on it to justify several playthroughs. Tactics fans shouldn&s;t hesitate to pick this one up."

"Dread Nautical is an exploration and survival adventure that, combining elements of strategy games, turn-based RPGs, and roguelites, create an interesting experience. It has its drawbacks, such as micro-management of survivors, or a certain repetitiveness, but they are still interesting, …"

"While there are a few solid survival games on the Switch they’re a pretty eclectic bunch, ranging from more action-oriented to more strategic and each with their own degree of challenge and some other unique qualities..."

"At the end of the day, Dread Nautical suffers from repetition, a big spike in difficulty, and a clunky interface. It’s really a tough one to recommend."

"Dread Nautical provides a very good turn-based adventure underneath an unfortunately cartoonish presentation. It can&s;t quite figure out if it wants to be scary or goofy, but the gameplay and level designs are deep enough to keep players engaged throughout."

"Dread Nautical is chock-full of charm and finds the perfect balance of difficulty to be accessible to someone who’s more interested in story than advanced tactics while still having appeal for genre veterans at harder settings."

"Dread Nautical lacks what most roguelikes offer: challenge. When it’s not wasting your time with long encounters, it is by forcing into you a false sense of progress with its base building mechanics. A big letdown after Operencia."

"Dread Nautical has the unenviable position of following two genre giants that moved into its launch window, but it holds its own as a worthy opening act."

"Dread Nautical does a lot of things well but it feels a bit unpolished on Nintendo Switch."

"Dread Nautical has a Lovecraftian horror theme, though it’s subtle it’s there. There certainly wasn’t anything in the game that I found to be scary as such, maybe a little bit more horror added to it would help in this …"

"Dread Nautical was simply amazing to sit down to. The turned based elements mesh perfectly with the Roguelike setting that has been presented through a cruise ship stuck somewhere out there in the high seas. With plenty of possible party …"

"A good start for new genres within Zen Studios. His Lovecraft background style and resource management will put you at the controls of a game that you enjoy or hate equally."

"Dread Nautical is a solid and intriguing turned based, tactical roguelike RPG, just don’t expect your tense horror itch to be scratched, because you’ll be very much looking in the wrong place. The gameplay isn’t too overbearing for newcomers and …"

"Dread Nautical is a roguelike game that wants to do a lot of things, but it can’t do that so well as we expected. The gameplay is confusing and it seems unpolished, but we loved the minimalist art style."

"All in all, Dread Nautical is a reasonably unremarkable game. It does well with the foundational ideas of the genres that it utilises and meets its objectives with a suitable story. However, it is more of a novelty than an …"

"There will be games that make you feel like you don’t want to play them because they are so bad. Dread Nautical is that game for me. This game has many things that made me not like playing it, and …"

"Performance issues could be (at least, partially) ironed over with likeable, interesting characters and a compelling mystery, but Dread Nautical just doesn&s;t deliver one."