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The TARTARUS is the title super-scale dreadnought of DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS, a city-sized modular battleship of unidentified origin that appears in Earth orbit in FC 2057.

World5/8/2026 4 min readduskvalley

DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS is a semi-automated strategic simulation game by solo developer benkimchi where the player commands a colossal anime-style battleship across a continuous campaign. Q3 2026 release window on Windows PC.

Getting Started5/8/2026 5 min readDarkwhispers

benkimchi is the solo independent developer and self-publisher of DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS, posting regular development updates on X under @NAP_benkimchi.

Development4/26/2026 3 min readwillowmist

Confirmed platform, release window, system requirements, and supported languages for DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS. Windows PC via Steam in Q3 2026, single-player only, with five fully-localized languages and minimum specs targeting a mid-2010s gaming PC.

The campaign is one continuous strategic-map advance for the TARTARUS dreadnought, not a hub of separate missions. Players plan routes, set loadouts, and let earlier zones unlock the kit used in later ones.

Systems5/8/2026 3 min readj0shlore

DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS pits the player's dreadnought against four broad enemy categories during the FC 2057 war: occupied or rogue urban defense systems, human military forces, gigantic monsters and anomalous lifeforms, and extraterrestrial invasion units.

Reverse engineering is the campaign's primary progression loop in DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS. Defeating enemies yields intel that becomes new upgrades and armaments for the TARTARUS dreadnought, slotting into its modular loadout and three firing modes.

Systems5/8/2026 3 min readrunecaster44

The combat mech is a deployable ground unit launched from the TARTARUS hangar bay for smaller-scale confrontations. It is a secondary combat layer below the primary battleship gameplay.

Systems5/8/2026 3 min readghostpetal

The in-fiction setting for DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS: the orbital arrival of an unidentified super-scale battleship and the war that follows.

How the per-hardpoint Manual, Automatic, and Focus Fire toggles control the TARTARUS battleship's weapons in DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS.

The strategic-map planning surface that lets players chart the TARTARUS battleship's path through DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS.

The seven-layer modular system that lets players reshape the TARTARUS battleship between engagements in DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS.

Quick answers to common questions about DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS: release date, platforms, multiplayer, demo, and more.