Fit check
Is Battlecruisers worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- RTS fans who want real-time ship construction and combat
- Strategy players who enjoy managing weapons, defenses, resources, and production together
- Players seeking robot opponents, floating battlefields, and exaggerated weaponry
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking turn-based planning rather than battles that unfold in real time
- Players looking for a character-focused campaign instead of repeated cruiser-building and destruction scenarios
- Players who do not want to manage multiple combat systems, resources, defenses, and production choices at once
Our take on Battlecruisers
Real-time control concentrates the game on rapid battlefield decisions, but leaves less room for the slower, deliberative planning found in turn-based strategy. The focus on building and commanding one battlecruiser also narrows the scope compared with games centered on broader armies or campaigns.
What is Battlecruisers?
Battlecruisers is a hand-drawn real-time strategy game set in the 28th century, after rising oceans have submerged much of Earth.
Players design, build, arm, and defend a floating battlecruiser while managing resources and production during combat. Victories add frigates, artillery, bombers, lasers, stealth generators, shields, boosters, builder drones, and other weapons to the arsenal. Battles involve attacking enemy warships, defending the cruiser, and deploying weapons such as napalm, nuclear launchers, and experimental ultra-weapons. Opponents include AI-controlled military robots, colossi, and fortresses. New cruisers, buildings, units, and ultra-weapons become available as play progresses, with battles offering multiple difficulty levels and encounters against human players or AI.
How Battlecruisers plays
- 01Cruiser construction
- Players choose the ship's design, buildings, weapons, defenses, resources, and production systems during real-time battles.
- 02Expanding arsenal
- Victories add units and systems including frigates, artillery, bombers, lasers, stealth generators, shields, boosters, and builder drones.
- 03Ultra-weapons
- The arsenal includes napalm, nuclear launchers, the Death Star Satellite, the Ultralisk Rapid Fabrication Facility, and the Kamikaze Signal.
- 04AI opponents
- Robot enemies include Huntress, Destruktor, and Karen, alongside larger enemies such as colossi and fortresses.
- 05Hand-drawn setting
- Battles take place around floating metal cities and submerged landmarks in a post-apocalyptic flooded Earth.
Battlecruisers compared to similar games
Men of War: Assault Squad focuses on World War II, large-scale strategy, and direct control of individual combat units, while Battlecruisers centers on designing and operating a single floating warship in real-time battles. Xenonauts uses turn-based squad combat and a multinational military organization against an alien invasion, whereas Battlecruisers uses real-time cruiser construction, resource management, and robot enemies.
Battlecruisers: platforms & release
Is Battlecruisers worth it?
It is worth it if: RTS fans who want real-time ship construction and combat. Skip it if: players seeking turn-based planning rather than battles that unfold in real time.
Where can I download Battlecruisers?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Battlecruisers's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Battlecruisers on?
Windows only.
