UBOAT

Never been so happy to draw lines and circles for sinking ships ! The game has a steep learning curve at the beginning but it's easily worth the joy of sinking your first ships with all the calculations done by yourself. Now that the game has been in beta for a long time the most annoying but (at least for me) are gone. Game is beautiful and you often find yourself just looking at your beautiful submarine sailing at a sunset after sinking a full convoy. The menus and settings are a bit clunky and have a 2010 inspiration but they're functional so that's all that matters. Try to fast save as often as possible as the pathfining of your ship can sometime be a bit weird and you'll hit the port when leaving it if you don't pay attention. Overall that's a really nice game and for this price you have exactly what you're looking for: a small submarine video game looking very promising ! Development is still in progress and developers seem to pay attention to player's feedbacks which is great, thanks to them :)

THe game looks promising, but currenlty the controls are terrible. It's playable but not ready. I hope it improves because the flow is not quite there.

From the start UBOAT is a Good WW2 submarine simulator. Game systems are easly tought to you by several tutorials that explain many aspects of this game. From the beggining the game allows you to modify many aspects like: economy, crew management, the targeting system (manual / automatic {the crew takes care of that} ). We have a great campaign that starts in the begginig of the war to the very end with the changes very easly seen like the enemy using more effective ways to find and drown us ( I still hear those pings in my head ). But why 4 stars, here i come with the answer Crew Menagment, the only thing that i was displeased with. It's not bad, but requies some patience and understanding when to do certain tasks like don't set "warming up the torpedoes" high up in the priorities tab. Because then the officer will mainly use his time on duty to make your torpedoes nice and slippery, activate it when you know that the convoy is near or order the oficers manualy so that you can easly make the convoy face it's fate. Overall a nice experience.

Like the most simulations, Uboat really benefits from "manual labor". The less automation the better. Its quite unsatisfying to play on low difficulty, It feels shallow and lacks of content. But doing everything on your own, like locating enemies on the map or calculating attack solutions and intercept courses feels awesome once you succeed and spot detonating torpedos on the horizon. To me it could even be more complicated. More to do and more to put into account. Maybe I should start over with disabled section view. Anyway I look forward for more content and updates and hopefully DLCs.

I purchased it in Early Access on Steam, the ingame tutorial was bugged, but that is one of the risks you take when you buy Early Access / In Devolepment games, and after watching some youtube tutorials, i found out how to play the game, and it is really fun once you get the hang of it. I do see some reviews that state that the game have no updates, this is not true, look at the steam forum to see when latest update were out. Also i see some reviews saying that the game is full of bugs and so on, that is kinda the point of Early Access / In Devolepment purchases. that you help iron out the bugs, and give suggestions and ideas to the dev. team. I would give this 5/5, but keep in mind that if you buy the game, that it is Early Access / In Devolepment, and you will most likely encounter bugs, or that you might even have to start over. Early Access / In Devolepment was never ment to be complete and bug free games, but to support the game development.