Not reviewing based on potential. If you buy it now, you play it now.
If you want to put the time and effort into figuring the game out, it is a ton of fun. I played it until I got bored with it, all the missions became rinse and repeat...and I got bored. Which is fine, it was incredibly engaging for the duration and I got plenty of gameplay out of it.
Aaaannnddd then I came back about a year later after plenty of updates. I had largely forgotten all of the "character" of the game. And then commenced the restarts. Did you miss one objective of the terribly constructed totorial? The game is now slowmo until you figure it out, with no way of pulling up the totorial dialoge.
You send your crew to shore to do a mission on a timer...the game doesnt tell you how to (or even that you can) check the progress of the crew. You dont know what to do or how to check. Unsure if the mission is complete, failed, or in progress.
It's not that the game isn't good (It is), it's not that the UI is bad (it can be improved, but it is workable)...the problem is that you are left in the dark about how to use any of it. You will restart constantly thinking theres a glitch, you will restart due to actual glitches, you will restart just to get another look at the instructions for the mission, you will habitually save before anything significant incase it glitches (or doesn't, but you cant tell the difference).
If you want to deal with bruteforcing your way through figuring out the game, go for it. If not, just wait for full release and pay a little more.
UBoat is essentially a lite-sim that lets you figure it all out...and when youre paying AA money, the developer needs to at least explain their UI and systems.
