Naval Battle Online

Naval Battle Online

Dark Shine Game Studio · November 17, 2022 · Action, Strategy, Massively Multiplayer, Wargame, 2.5D

Naval Battle Online is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Positive76% · 54 📉 Recent reviews down 45%2playing now
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Naval Battle Online price

Naval Battle Online is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Naval Battle Online

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Naval Battle Online is a pirate ship combat game where you upgrade your vessel with cannons, crew, and special materials while climbing the ranks against other players. Build or join a fleet to conquer islands together, complete daily quests for progression, and prove your dominance on the leaderboards.

Upgrade your ship, level up and make sure you're strong enough to send your enemies overboard. Equip your ship with advanced cannons, elite cannonballs, a qualified crew and skilled pirates. And don't miss out on the many special materials that will help you on your way to becoming a glorious pirate.

Build your own mighty army and strike fear into your enemies by building or joining a fleet in Naval Battle Online. Together you can conquer the islands and become a very strong wedding ring. Be the ruler of the great seas.

By taking daily quests, you can gain more experience points and speed up your development. Reinforce your friendships and show that you are a great team player by participating in regular events.

If your ship is stronger than other players, you can see your ship name in the game ranking.

Naval Battle Online — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Online PvP, Cross-platform multiplayer
PC Game Pass
Not included
More games like this:Crossplay games

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

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Naval Battle Online is a pirate-themed mobile game ported to Steam that suffers from heavy monetization and a toxic player environment. Players consistently cite aggressive microtransactions requiring real money to remain competitive, severe grinds, and a small population of high-level players who exploit mechanics to harass newcomers, making the experience particularly unwelcoming for new players. Most reviewers suggest this is not worth playing, let alone paying for.

Not recommended Jan 17, 2025
[quote]Warning: Microtransaction infested mobile app[/quote] Naval Battle Online is one of thousands of nasty mobile apps infesting the "free" section of Steam, but it's not really free. There's only a superficial "game" here. This very badly made mobile app has a pirate theme as you fight other players and lose constantly. Why do you lose? Because this "game" is just a veneer wrapped around a nasty, predatory mobile app cash shop. You have to buy a lot of "gems" for real world cash money to get an edge over opponents from Google Play. So, the true purpose of this mobile app is to get you to hand your credit card details to the greedy mobile devs so you can buy stuff in the nasty cash shop... it's a mobile app cash harvester, and has no place in your game library. Bonus points for the developer demanding you hand over your email address and potentially other private information so they can profile you, harvest data and presumably sell it onwards. I mean... can you trust them? If they were trustworthy they would use Steamworks instead of requiring a third party account. This is never okay.. it's downright shady. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game c…
3 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 17, 2024
MMORPG in Pirate theme, very primitive but still playable
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 16, 2023
Game is fun but heavy grind
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 27, 2025
Very limited to new players. Higher level existing players, what few there are, use loopholes (like mines) to get around 3 hour damage protection to bomb new players back to oblivion. When there are few players and they are toxic, no wonder i saw approximately 30 different people over a 3 week period. and most of them were real tools. didn"t see any new players. what few players are left arrainge battles to keep growing. https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/11647324890797634436/FBE1D226A58AA9C18B6D71521811D49B824A2DE3/
Recommended Apr 10, 2023
[h1]Before I played Naval Battle Online, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
Not recommended Feb 25, 2023
Trash.

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