Admiral Stepinski

Admiral Stepinski is a fast-paced tactics game about controlling planets and the connections between them. You build ships, use radar to prepare for attacks and defend your connections, which can be crossed by enemy ships to steal their income. The game includes 40 maps, five factions, AI opponents, single-player and co-op campaigns, and online multiplayer.

Control planets and connections

Your planets and the connections between your planets earn money. You can build ships using money from a planet or from nearby connections linked to your planets. Each ship has a maintenance cost that reduces planet earnings, so maintaining a huge fleet can leave less money coming in.

Enemy ships can cross a connection at any point. When they do, the connection's accumulated money is distributed among the capturing player's planets, and the connection starts earning money for that player. The crossing point is destroyed when friendly ships approach, making it important to guard your connections.

Planets can be upgraded to unlock more powerful ships. Ships include fast but weak types and strong but slow types; using radar information helps you prepare for attacks by the slower, stronger ships. Another type is super-strong, super-expensive and super-slow, with many turrets.

Campaigns and multiplayer

The game has two short single-player campaigns and two short co-op campaigns for two players. Online skirmishes and two-player co-op multiplayer are also available; there is no LAN multiplayer.

Ships and defenses

The five ship types include gatling, laser and rocket turrets. Gatling bullet hits are calculated in real time, and ships can also use shields. Laser turrets rotate individually to fire. Damaged ships show marks and smoke from their holes; when destroyed, they turn grey, fade away slowly and leave trails of smoke.