There are two parts of the game, the overall map of the pacific and naval battles. Both are turn-based.

The naval battles are fun if you enjoy turn-based fights based largely upon positioning your ships and estimating distances. Though unfortunately, you don't choose the starting formation of your fleet. It is definitely satisfying to see the shell hit from over a mile away, you can really feel the distance between the ships, and then see it crash into the ship and possibly disable some critical component such as one of their guns, or engine. The armament of your ships will also play a role in how things go. For example, the submarine can be shielded from most damage by being submerged, but can only hit the enemy from 1500 yards while the largest guns have a range of 4000 yards. It pays to have a versatile fleet. The enemy may have a tightly formed fleet with many AA guns, making your carriers less effective, or battleships with big guns but few/no torpedos, making your subs more effective. The battleship can otherwise outshoot anything, but can fall prey to repeated airstrikes from an aircraft carrier that is too far away to shoot. Ramming is possible and could be fun, but I've only accidently rammed my own ships. Try not to do that. When your ships can destroy the enemy from miles away, you tend not to end up getting so close. The AI on hard provides enough of a challenge to be interesting.

The overall battle map is fun, but the AI doesn't play it well. Oddly, America is the more challenging side to play. New ships can be built, but only about one per turn (or every other turn, if you want a battleship/carrier) while each side starts with over 20 ships. New ships can be customized in terms of their armament to some degree, to make the ship better against regular ships, aircraft, or subs. You can make the right side of your battleship able to fire torpedos at subs, with the left side specialized for regular ships, with all standard turrets to complement the heavier turrets on the front and back. Or replace regular guns with a few AA guns to help fend off airstrikes. There's always tradeoffs, and you want to consider what your enemy has and what supporting ships you already possess.

You earn points to build new ships by controlling sea zones, and some are worth 2-6 times more than others. These valuable zones tends to have coastal defenses and ports where ships are repaired. You do control the defenses and they can make a significant difference in battle to favor the defender. You can send a lone sub or frigate to capture undefended sea zones while your main force blocks the progress of the enemy fleet until they bring the fight to you. You win by occupying all sea zones in the pacific.

It's not a massively complicated game but it does have nice little touches of detail and it's FUN, and FUN is what it's all about. There's just something immensely satisfying about taking out enemy ships in this game.

I was cackling with glee while finishing off an enemy carrier or having a destroyer finish off two wounded enemy ships in one turn.

Das24680 has a couple of videos for this on youtube that show how to play and what the game is about (which is what inspired me to buy).

Awesome little naval strategy game by a awesome and dedicated game Dev. If the video and screen shots interest you at all then I'd recommend buying it, you'll enjoy it.

Just finished sitting down with this game for the first time, that was 4 hours ago that I started. While some mechanics get a little tedious ( what game doesn't have that! ) The visuals and major mechanics of the game are outstanding! Highly recommend, if you are one of those people who go for the gameplay per $$ value this one has some great replayability to it!

Very enjoyable game. Hope to see an Atlantic and a Mediterranean map. Would be fun to take on the Germans and Italians.

Decent game for a "basic" naval combat game. Think of the old school board game Battleship that converted to the computer. Basic gun ranging, then shooting the enemy, nothing to complicated about it. Fun times when playing two player.

A simple, fun naval-themed strategy game. Beyond aesthetics, don't expect too much WWII history, it's a simple strategy game that lives in the guise of the fight in the Pacific with random forces for each side. That said, the tactical combat is quick, easy to learn, and entertaining. If it's available for a few bucks and you're looking for something to pass the time, it's worth the purchase.

Simplistic, but not so simplistic that its boring. Its just a nice little game to play in your down time, reminding me of a more advanced verson of battle ship.

Good game, like someone said before it's like chess with war ships
I clocked up a few hours on it and will play again

If you enjoy turn based strategy and naval combat you'll really enjoy this game. It's has solid gameplay, good solo campaign and multiplayer modes, Good fun!

fun little game

This is a great and fun game.

The best turn-based naval combat simulator on the market.
Well priced with tens of hours of gameplay and replayability.
Highly recommended.

TL:DR? See Conclusion

NOTE: I clocked around 5-6 hours in this game but mostly while Steam was OFFLINE. Steam does not count game-time in Offline Mode.

INTRODUCTION:
Battle Fleet 2 is a top-down turn based strategy game by Capital j Media. It was made for both the mobile platform and the PC which was released simultaneously. The game features multiple ship classes, each having their own unique weapon systems and abilities with a tactical and strategic map you can play on.

The player can either be an Admiral for the United States Pacific Fleet or the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. The game has an open world map including most major areas during the war like: Japan, Philippines, Australia, Wake Islands, Hawaii and many more. Lead your fleet into victory through careful planning, precision attacks, Navy composition and proper positioning.

PROS:
+ Acceptable graphics with very detailed ship designs. (although the water graphics is nice, the land texture could use a little more work.)
+ Good core gameplay
+ Ship variety with different abilities
+ Historically accurate names and details of the ships
+ Simple game with an adequately complex game mechanic (range finders, bearings etc.)
+ AI (Also a Con): Tactical Map AI is competent on Hard mode
+ Hotseat Multiplayer (two or more players taking turn using one computer)
+ No Microtransactions (specially since it has a mobile counterpart)
+ Customizable hard points when building new ships

CONS:
- Short Campaign (could have used more maps to extend gameplay)
- No tutorial
- Land texture is horrible
- No ship upgrades during campaign (I've been told Captains level up though)
- AI (Also a Pro): Strategic Map AI is brain dead and leaves important territory poorly defended

CONCLUSION:
Its a NICE GAME, good for passing the time and a good way to satisfy an urge for a 'not-so-deep but also not dumb strategic game. For a mobile-pc multiplatform game, Battle Fleet 2 is COMPETENT. It plays nicely, has decent visuals, easy to understand game mechanic and it can run with almost all modern computers.

I would RECOMMEND this at full price ($10 USD or your regional equivalent) if you're really into this kind of game, but if not, WAIT for a SALE.

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I bought this off Steam for $8.49. I've been looking for a naval strategy game, so I took a flyer on this.

As I understand it, this is a game designed for mobile phones and has now been ported to PC. It's turn-based and pretty basic, easy to learn, and fun to play. My first time playing, I spent five hours without even realizing; that's about the price of a movie ticket, so it's already worth it to me.

My biggest complaint is getting saddled with random ships at the start of the campaign with no way to modify or mothball them. The only way to delete them is to get them destroyed, and that gives your enemy build points (and experience?). There's no way to 'refit' the ships with different hardpoint options (some destroyers and cruisers don't take advantage of being able to mount medium guns - 1 and 3 respectively, and sometimes even battleships don't have heavy guns mounted - one of the biggest reasons to have a battleship at sea as they outrange everything, sans aircraft, and are invaluable in taking heavily defended ports). When you play a one-shot skirmish you can build your whole fleet out of points (higher point battles, please!) and designing your fleet is easily half the fun.

As I understand it, this is a growing and still developing game, so I hope these things improve. One way to help that happen is give the game your money. Less than $10? Totally worth it.

I suck at this game but it's so addicting. I find myself wishing the next shot of the enemy will miss and then boom, my ship sinks. It's easy to learn but hard to master, at least for me, yet it's fun to play and for the price it offers it's totally worth it. 11/10

A rare thing these days. A "small" game, simple in the best way possible, and a true example of "easy to learn, difficult to master". As you play and learn your way around the game, you start to realize that there is actual depth (no pun intended) to this naval game. Clever tactics and coordinated operations are rewarded with victories.

Actually a nice singleplayer game - with both a campaign and "quick battle" mode, but also a wonderful multiplayer game too, with both network and hotseat play available. This isn't exactly "Harpoon" - but it's fun, and if you've grown up reading about Midway and the many other historical battles of the Pacific, this will feel "right at home". One of those games you can play "while watching a game on TV", or with a friend, over a few beers.

For the price, it's immensely satisfying, and one of those "juuust one more round" games that.. caused me to be at work for the second day in a row after having *way* too little sleep.

But hey, the Japanese have no more carriers in the Pacific, so I've got that going for me, which is nice ;)

Accually not abad game for the price. The interface is simple. Graphics not that bad. Sort of ship chess. It would be nice if the ships could be repaired when back in port. Id give it a 7 out of 10. If there are future add ons the Atlantic would be a nice addition.

For the money this is a good turned based naval battle game. Set during the pacific war you can play either the Americans or Japanese. Has a single player campaign, multiplayer and quick player modes. The game is set around a group of pacific islands. There are two stages to the game. The first is set on a large campagin map where you can move / engage fleets or build / repair ships. The second takes place after you engage an enemy fleet. These battles are not over quickly as the larger ships move slowly and the range of guns / torpedos varies. At your disposal are submarines, frigates, cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers.

The graphics are not bad and has detailed ships. Controls are very simple and the use of a range guide helps give you an idea of how far you should fire the guns. One nice touch is that if you miss, the detonation points are recorded so you can see how far you missed before planning the next attack.

The damage model is realistic with different ship parts capable of being destroyed or disabled. Your individual ships will earn prestige as they survive each battle so it pays to keep them alive. In my first battle I was heavily outnumbered by both land, sea and air. Although I won pretty much all my ships were damaged. Back on the campaign map you have to move damaged ships back to the nearest friendly port in order to repair them. Thats where the game can become tense, especially if your fleet is a few moves away from the port and the enemy starts pursuing you. Just like it was in the real pacific war things become a game of cat and mouse.

This game will give any naval strategist hours of gameplay. I only really have a couple of moans and one is that despite seeing a nice close up of the ships in the stats mode you can't actually zoom right in during a battle. The other is that I would have liked to have seen some historical scenarios as the pacific had many well known battles. I'm probably sounding greedy now but I would have also like to have seen an atlantic campaign with the British and German navies.

Update: You can ignore my last part about the Atlantic campaign as apparently there is one on the way. Good stuff.

Great game. The new atlantic and submarine and strategic depth. In an era of hit and run candy and 'freemium' games its nice to someone takes games seriously. Im looking at you Ubisoft.