Dread Admiral

Honestly the game is just solid in a general sense. Sound design is great, the music is enjoyable, the ping of sonar when finding a sub tickles my brain just right, and the firing of guns is different enough between ships to be named without sight. The AI itself seems mostly fair, and my only gripe is that some of the generated maps are their own difficulty setting. What I mean by that is that if you get a bad map generation (usually you have two to three options so, generally you have an option) which gives the enemy 2/3 cities and you can't push out fast enough, you might just get steam rolled before you can really fight; doesn't happen often, only happened once to me, but it can happen. Damage/Crit values are shared by the AI, so no random damage bumps from the AI you can't understand; AI also has the same economy as you it seems - though I cannot confirm how the AI gets money, as the player carries a rolling bank between missions, the AI seems to have a set amount each level before getting more from their captured cities. Overall there's not much to complain about, anything I could gripe about is a sensible design choice. The AI uses a lot of subs, probably because I use a lot of capital ships and minimal screens. Enemy carriers keep bombing my destroyers, probably so the subs don't get caught. Enemies blockade my cities with subs but I need my destroyers with the battle fleet; yeah, it's actually smart enough to do that. I can't take my full fleet at the end of the mission, yeah, hard choices ensure it's not easy to steam roll mission after mission. The enemy has rocket firing submarines... Ok I just don't have those yet but I want one, and if I could complain about anything, it's the fact there's no real counter to something like that; I'd recommend a CWIS to the Developer, although maybe the super ships have those. Really everything works here, as far as rogue likes/lites go, this is probably one of the best ones I've played, especially at the price.