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Gold Admiral

Explore, trade, research, and fight across a turn-based naval strategy sandbox. Found coastal cities, command fleets and armies, clear pirate hideouts and dungeons, and shape each campaign through economy, diplomacy, or conquest.

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Headhunter Games
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Headhunter Games
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About the Game

Gold Admiral is a turn-based naval strategy game in which every campaign plays differently. Explore procedurally generated seas and islands, found coastal cities, build up settlements, research permanent upgrades, and lead admirals, generals, fleets, and armies across a changing world.

Trade goods between ports, fulfill contracts, collect bounties, plunder enemies, negotiate with rival powers, and defend your growing empire from pirates, marauders, sea raiders, and hostile factions. Battles are fought both at sea and on land, with ships, troops, morale, wind, boarding, cannon fire, and commander progression shaping the outcome.

Campaign setup lets you tune the experience: map size and shape, water share, fog of war, AI strength, teams, starting conditions, mercenaries, native settlements, dungeons, roaming threats, and victory conditions. Pursue a sandbox empire, win by points, dominate every settlement, trigger a gold rush, hunt dungeons, or prove your strength through sea or land victories.

Rule the waves, develop your commanders, and become the Gold Admiral.

Features

  • Explore turn-based naval strategy campaigns on customizable maps

  • Found and upgrade settlements from small villages to metropolises

  • Build ports, shipyards, taverns, academies, markets, defenses, and production chains

  • Research permanent upgrades for economy, logistics, trade, warfare, ships, and commanders

  • Command tactical sea battles with wind, broadsides, ramming, boarding, morale, and ship damage

  • Fight land battles with generals, infantry, cavalry, cannons, morale, and support units

  • Build, buy, sell, repair, and refit merchant, pirate, and military ships

  • Trade goods, run contracts, claim bounties, plunder rivals, and manage reputation

  • Clear land dungeons and pirate hideouts with difficulty levels, variants, loot, and special rewards

  • Recruit admirals, generals, settlers, mercenaries, automated traders, and settlement guards

  • Choose victory conditions including sandbox, points, conquest, gold rush, dungeon hunter, sea battles, and land battles

  • Customize factions, AI strength, teams, map type, fog of war, native settlements, dungeons, and roaming threats

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