{"id":1555709,"date":"2026-04-18T04:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oSfEae8gPDFyQwoPNJ7qhE"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:27:41","slug":"ive-always-wanted-to-fire-the-infinite-cannons-of-a-giant-anime-battleship-and-this-solo-devs-giving-me-a-chance-on-steam-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ive-always-wanted-to-fire-the-infinite-cannons-of-a-giant-anime-battleship-and-this-solo-devs-giving-me-a-chance-on-steam-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve always wanted to fire the infinite cannons of a giant anime battleship, and this solo dev’s giving me a chance on Steam later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Videogames have given me more opportunities to blow up titanic scifi battleships than I could ever hope to count. But I’ve rarely gotten the opportunity to experience the other side of that equation as the guy commanding the fleet’s worth of cannons, laser batteries, and missile bays bristling across a single massive floating monolith.<\/p>\n

One solo dev, however, is looking to provide us all a taste of scifi navy excess with Dreadnought Tartarus, a “semi-automated strategic simulation game centered around a single, colossal battleship,” which is another way of saying “you get to play that part from anime space operas and mecha series where the space cruisers fill the screen with the wildest barrage of weapons fire that the visual arts can imagine.”<\/p>\n

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Players can choose to manually control multiple weapons, let them attack automatically, or activate a Focus Fire Mode to have all weapons fire in a single direction.\u6b66\u5668\u306f\u624b\u52d5\u64cd\u4f5c\u30fb\u81ea\u52d5\u653b\u6483\u306e\u5207\u308a\u66ff\u3048\u304c\u53ef\u80fd\u3002\u3010\u96c6\u4e2d\u5c04\u6483\u30e2\u30fc\u30c9\u3011\u3067\u5168\u6b66\u88c5\u3092\u4e00\u65b9\u5411\u306b\u96c6\u4e2d\u767a\u5c04\u3002#gamedev #indiedev\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/3MIwiQeWUmFebruary 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I caught my first glimpse of Dreadnought Tartarus a few months ago, and since then I’ve always spared a few seconds to watch the spectacle whenever another one of developer Benkimchi’s clips crosses my timeline. As the titular warship Tartarus carves slow, inexorable paths through wartorn cityscapes and orbital battle lines, it’s operating on a striking visual scale providing an overhead showcase for the absurd density of firepower it’s putting under the player’s command.<\/p>\n

The best part of its presentation is how leisurely the Tartarus moves. It’s brutally, menacingly slow on the screen\u2014and that pace only makes it more terrifying. It’s a bad sign when a battleship doesn’t feel a need to rush.<\/p>\n

Dreadnought Tartarus describes itself as being somewhere between realtime wargame and roaming tower defense. Rather than a sequence of missions, it “unfolds as a continuous campaign across a strategic map,” with players charting the Tartarus’ route between its military objectives and weathering the storm of hostile forces that attempt to impede its progress.<\/p>\n

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