Dreadful River
SureAI · 2026 · Exploration, Procedural Generation, Top-Down, Strategy RPG, Nonlinear
PC
Mostly Positive72% · 57 📉 Recent reviews down 64%
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About Dreadful River
An unknown sickness spreading throughout the realm, you set sail down the river to find a cure. When word about the existence of old and otherworldly stones reach your ear, collecting every last one of them becomes a great shimmer of hope. Defend your party and survive against your adversaries who are prepared to ambush you at any moment to destroy all hopes of salvation. All sorts of creatures’ prey upon you in dark dungeons while wild animal or dreads hunt you in bright daylight. To face this many challenges the bravest soldiers your pouch has to offer stand by your side. Improve your chance of survival by improving their abilities and gear, find powerful allies and explore mysteries along the shores. Gather important resources and trade with townsfolk. Uncover the truth behind the legends surrounding the ‘Tales of the fallen Stars’. On the search for a cure, you maybe even find the course for the strange smell above the water. Utilize everything in your grasps and save your Kingdom. Explore the vast winding riverSteer the raft along the river and its ever changing scenery. Watch your supplies and keep your guard while the weather and the cycle of day and night will affect your view. With each run of the game, the river will have a new course and lead you through different landscapes. Fight enemies and protect the crownYour raft will be attacked from the shores and on the water. Defend your vessel and its crew against archers, javelin throwers, spellcasters and many more threats. Choose the right tactics and decide if you want to charge enemies or quietly evade them by floating ahead while they‘re sleeping. Acquire items and improve your equipmentPick up flotsam, collect drops from defeated enemies or purchase items in settlements along the river. Merchants will have different selections, prices, trading choices and unique items.
Upgrade your vessel Increase crew capacity and add siege engines to your raft.
Manage and hire new crew membersManage your crew members and improve their strength. Stop your raft at settlements and mercenary camps. Hire crew members such as Archers, Mages, Spearman and more. Also discover new crew member classes on your journey.Earn battle experience
By conquering forts, clearing dungeons and mines, sinking ships or fighting on land, you earn fight experience you can use to improve your crew abilities.
Upgrade your vessel Increase crew capacity and add siege engines to your raft.
Manage and hire new crew membersManage your crew members and improve their strength. Stop your raft at settlements and mercenary camps. Hire crew members such as Archers, Mages, Spearman and more. Also discover new crew member classes on your journey.Earn battle experience
By conquering forts, clearing dungeons and mines, sinking ships or fighting on land, you earn fight experience you can use to improve your crew abilities.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A cool Idea, but Gameplay missing depth. I didnt even bother with 3/4 of the units because they are not worth it. procedural Map is almost always a good idea. Just pointless if you get bored before reaching the last 1/3 of the Game. The Story is pretty pointless as well (just demands you to do the first river again, when your completely op and if your unlucky and miss a story based dungeon, you just do the whole thing again.) I think i will play this again casually, but without troop updates e.g. there is barely a point to keep playing. The Maps/Biomes and dungeons look really cool. Some sort of dungeons you might skip after 1-2 times, because its too tedious to clear and not really rewarding.5 found this helpful
feels like an alpha. water looks great but the controls are awful3 found this helpful
Like I spend about 30 hours in that game. Concept is awesome. Realization is not. At all. Can't see it done even in 2 years. Really clanky interface, just look for experienced UI/UX designer, you definately don't know how to handle it by yourself. Ask yourself simple questions - how I as Player can use that feature? Don't invent bicycles, like your camera control. Oh yea, I stopped playing because game erases my 30 hr save. Cloud save wasn't there as well. Good luck3 found this helpful
This is really not good. Sure AI's track record is not proving very fruitful. They made one of the best mods ive ever played with Enderal. But it just goes to show, They were good at making a good mod for a bethesda game. And not their own.3 found this helpful
Fun game, it works as advertised1 found this helpful
So the game looks cool, the water looks great and the concept is cool. However, I have played for about 19 hours and I am bored to tears. You get a lot of guys with good armor and weapons and soon there is no reason to open chest nothing new. You just kill everything easy. you have to look for stones and you go down pretty much the same places to find the the stones and it is the same thing over and over. I got three stones and I just can not get myself to do more. the game is so repetitive and easy. also some glitches like landing on the shore wont work a quarter of the time so have to save and exit come back in and then i can land, sometimes running around gets glitchy and hard to focus on an enemy as the camera angles go all over. the upgrade map pretty pointless and you can max it out pretty easy. I really wanted to like the game but I am happy I am quitting.
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