This is one of the most immersive games I have played. Sometimes I enjoy traveling in real time while wandering around the boat watching the goings on, or scanning the horizon for ships. Sometimes I'd rather speed to the satisfaction of manually plotting torpedo solutions against multiple simultaneous targets. UBoat is a military sim, of course, but there's also a management element involving the crew and supplies. One can play in first person as any member of the crew, or sit above and control things more broadly. I mostly sit above unless I want immersion, or want to take fine control of a normally automated process. For instance, in first person you can take a crew member with a discount to the supply depot instead of only the captain. Or if you need ammo moved quickly, you can grab a couple of sailors and do it yourself. The learning curve seemed daunting at first, but things clicked pretty fast. Especially after watching a few videos of the gameplay and reading a few of the guides online. Since you can set the realism/manual control elements fairly granularly, you can eliminate a lot of the learning curve until you are ready. If you have a beefy system that can handle running a bit hot, then head out and sink some ships.
