Dreadlands
Released Mar 2020
Welcome to Dreadlands! A perilous landscape brimming with potential in the form of Glow. Command one of 3 unique factions in this turn-based tactical RPG and play through their campaigns, be it solo or Co-Op, or battle it out in PvP. So far no one has tamed the Dreadlands. Will you be the first?
58% positive · 224 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Evaluation
Dreadlands launched into Early Access on March 10, 2020 and reached its full 1.0 release on November 9, 2020. During and after Early Access, the team was highly active: they shipped six major content updates between May 2020 and December 2020, adding new factions (Skarbacks), new classes (Mushroomancer, Engineer, Equalizer), co-op mode, an endless dungeon, world map events, Steam achievements, and a completed campaign. After the 1.0 launch, updates slowed considerably — a challenge system rework arrived in May 2021 alongside a "Summer of Updates" initiative that laid out further planned improvements, and the final recorded update was a feature patch on February 18, 2022 adding armor traits and fire mechanics. Since February 18, 2022, there have been no further developer communications, news posts, patches, or announcements of any kind. The "Summer of Updates" plan from May 2021 described additional features (reworked scavenge missions, combat dialogue, new PvP missions, etc.), but none of those appear to have shipped as major content, and the developer has been silent for over four years since the last patch. With no unreleased DLC on the store, no outstanding developer commitments visible, and a prolonged silence well beyond any historical update cadence, the game's content development appears to have concluded as of the February 2022 patch.
Evidence
Patch 2.31 added armor traits, fire mechanics, and quality-of-life improvements — the last recorded developer communication for the game.
The Equalizer, a new Skarback support class using energy drain and boost mechanics, was added to the game.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Fatshark
Achievements
9
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
Welcome to the vivid, vibrant, and violent post-apocalypse. The Dreadlands await!
Dreadlands is a shared world, turn-based tactical, skirmish game set in an unforgiving environment where life and death revolves around the constant struggle for Glow, a resource as valuable as it's enigmatic.
Explore the wondrously diverse regions of the Dreadlands, overcoming the wealth of challenges provided by the treacherous terrain, voracious Beastlife and trigger happy locals.
Freely move, attack and use abilities any way you want. Move and shoot? Shoot and move? Shoot twice? It's up to you to decide how to best use your Action Points!
Morale system
Engage in the tug-of-war Morale system that allows you to break the hearts & minds of your enemies. In the Dreadlands there is more to battle than just killing!
XP challenges system
Get more direct control over your gangs XP flow by completing in-match challenges for increased XP and award your personal MVP with even more XP. Your own skill translates to more XP!
Tactics card system
Use the unique Tactics powers and combine them in exciting ways. Play your cards right and you can control the flow of battle itself!
The Scrappers; hot-tempered junk-tinkerers. The Tribe-kin; nature worshipping and beast controlling tribals. The Skarbacks; former slaves, now cybernetic mountains of flesh and steel.
Exploring the Dreadlands will be a diverse and dangerous trek. The region resembles a patchwork of contracting biomes, a strange brew definitely not concocted through the methodical work of mother nature.
There’s an abundance of jaw-dropping sights to see and gruesome things to kill, as you travel across grasslands, lush swamp-jungle hybrids, mountains, desert plains and contaminated zones of utter devastation.
The Dreadlands is notorious as a unique and wondrously weird place, which is quite a feat, considering the post-apocalyptic world is no stranger to otherworldly strangeness!
Dreadlands is a shared world, turn-based tactical, skirmish game set in an unforgiving environment where life and death revolves around the constant struggle for Glow, a resource as valuable as it's enigmatic.
Explore the wondrously diverse regions of the Dreadlands, overcoming the wealth of challenges provided by the treacherous terrain, voracious Beastlife and trigger happy locals.
Tactical combat
Free Action Point systemFreely move, attack and use abilities any way you want. Move and shoot? Shoot and move? Shoot twice? It's up to you to decide how to best use your Action Points!
Morale system
Engage in the tug-of-war Morale system that allows you to break the hearts & minds of your enemies. In the Dreadlands there is more to battle than just killing!
XP challenges system
Get more direct control over your gangs XP flow by completing in-match challenges for increased XP and award your personal MVP with even more XP. Your own skill translates to more XP!
Tactics card system
Use the unique Tactics powers and combine them in exciting ways. Play your cards right and you can control the flow of battle itself!
Gang Factions
Choose from between the 3 factions and play through their unique campaigns, each of them having their own playstyles and flair.The Scrappers; hot-tempered junk-tinkerers. The Tribe-kin; nature worshipping and beast controlling tribals. The Skarbacks; former slaves, now cybernetic mountains of flesh and steel.
Co-op & PvP
Team up with a friend to play through the campaigns with the gangs of your choosing or duke it out with other players to see who is the true champion of the Dreadlands!Explore the Dreadlands
Exploring the Dreadlands will be a diverse and dangerous trek. The region resembles a patchwork of contracting biomes, a strange brew definitely not concocted through the methodical work of mother nature.
There’s an abundance of jaw-dropping sights to see and gruesome things to kill, as you travel across grasslands, lush swamp-jungle hybrids, mountains, desert plains and contaminated zones of utter devastation.
The Dreadlands is notorious as a unique and wondrously weird place, which is quite a feat, considering the post-apocalyptic world is no stranger to otherworldly strangeness!
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Last evaluated Jun 23, 2026
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