Dread Nautical is a cartoony turn-based RPG-lite set on a cruise ship where a restful cruise has turned into a battle against weird malevolent mutations. You have to battle your way up the decks of the ship to find an answer to what is going on.

As RPGs go this is simpler to play than many. As you fight and scavenge you get food to keep your characters alive, scraps and tokens to mend and upgrade your weaponry and your characters. There is a fun range of weapons to be employed, and locales on the ship to do battle in. With observation the battles are not very hard, the last boss fight is the hardest. You will need to work out your enemies' vulnerabilities. Cowardly whacking a foe in the back works well.

Each deck has quite a number of areas to explore but you will find there may not be time to explore them all before making your way back to the lobby each time. Spend too long on a deck and you may get swarmed by monsters appearing.

The tone is very tongue in cheek, the characters make amusing comments now and then, and the bad guy behind it all has a line in suitably menacing voice overs.

Not profoundly deep gameplay or story but fun.