UBoat

« UBOAT is a worthy successor to the Silent Hunter series that sets its own accents. »

« The German submarine war simulator has been floating around on Steam for years in an Early Access version. It is now complete and ready for crisis situations at sea. It's a complex submarine simulation that is suitable for both amateurs and veterans thanks to the realism settings. »

« This rarely touched-on topic is a plus, but it's marred by terrible controls and numerous bugs and flaws. A ship can get stranded while leaving port, torpedoes can take forever to load, the entire HUD can disappear, the save game can break, and a sailor can die of exhaustion because you didn't explicitly order him to leave his post. »

« Not a bad game. A bit complicated for new players, and why wasn't a skip tutorial added? I had to re-do the tutorial when I started over, and it was boring. »

« An outstanding simulation of systems and crew, with the richest campaign experience ever for a Uboat sim on the PC. Includes 3 major sub variants with a 4th coming soon. The interface is somewhat complex but you can configure game play to match your interest. For a much longer review visit ****. »

« Apparemment (et selon les sources autorisées), ce jeu remonte à 2016 ! lorsqu’il fut cette année-là kickstarté sur la plateforme bien connue du ludo-financement participatif. Puis, en 2019, il est passé en accès anticipé… pour finalement (enfin) être sorti officiellement (en version 1.0) en août 2024 ! Cela fait donc (déjà) 8 ans et le jeu est encore loin d’être en bon état… il ne coule pas à pic mais presque. Il faudra encore au studio de développement, je suppose, une petite dizaine d’années avant d’avoir un jeu qui tienne enfin la putain de route… Techniquement par exemple, le jeu (qui n’existe que sur PC) s’avère très gourmand pour n’afficher que des graphismes très moyens…! et une fois sur deux, il faut le lancer deux fois pour qu'il daigne démarrer... Et en plus ce merdier pèse environ 66 Go ! 66 Go pour un jeu boulotté avec le moteur préféré des indés (le moteur des pauvres) l’Unity ! c’est un putain de record ! tu regardes ce machin, tu te demandes comment ça peut faire 66 Go. Non, c’est pas possible, c’est bidon, c’est du lest !De toute façon, l’interface est à revoir presque entièrement et la complication générale du bousin est très compliquée. Il se veut réaliste, certes mais tout de même, qu’est-ce qu’ils vont pas chercher !… Moi qui cherchais un jeu comme les Silent Hunter, je suis bien marri et fort dépité. Et quand on commence la campagne, on ne peut pas passer tous ces didacticiels à la con, tellement assommants que je me suis endormi devant l’écran. Alors j’ai désinstallé cette bouse ! »

« When I place my mouse to the left side of the screen it scrolls/turns right. I cant get past this annoying feature. Left is right and right is left and invert doesn't work. Wasted money. Want to look to the right? Just remember to place the cursor to the left edge of the screen. No matter how much this happens my instinct is to go right when i want to look right... I just cat figure out why i want to look right when i see something on my right side...I tried it IRL and when i turn left i see left...Patrolling and control click blue path that the tutorial makes easy always gives "interception not possible" in real **** i mentioned to look left you have to look right? »

« Excellent work!This honorable game is what i wanted .The best submarine simulation i ever seen . The battle atmosphere is perfect .This game is a long journey .Be ready to study ,Learning about wolves tactics , Laconia case , torpedo crisis . »

« So you develop a game for almost a decade and release it but since v1.0 they've updated it basically everyday??? The game clearly was not ready for a 1.0 release. Furthermore, the audio is rubbish like they have not touched it since day one and the learning curve is too steep with no tutorials covering half the stuff in the game, you're going to see positive reviews for this one on steam because those people have been playing since day 1 and know how to play but check recent negative reviews and people mostly say the same thing.. A big shame really cause I like the concept but this is just another cash grab dev, funny to think this started as a kickstarter cause it ticks all the boxes for anything that comes off that platform.... half baked cash grab game that does not justify the dev time or money invested for the end product to be so unfinished, if you've taken so long to get to this point why not take another 6 months to make sure its perfect? Not even close to feeling like a full game developed for the best part of a decade. »

« Bugs, glitches and a steep learning curve with unnecessary micromanagement. Ubisoft Silent Hunter game series (especially their first games) were far more fun and with far less micromanagement and i really liked that. In this game when you use torpedoes to sink ships if you try to do it manually yourself it's like solving mathematical problems (yuck!!) then press a button throw your torpedoes and if you did it correctly in a matter of seconds the enemy ship just sinks "poof" the overall experience of sinking ships feels boring in this game the sinkings and explosions are not as grandiose as it was in the Silent Hunter games. Another thing is that the gameplay menu is far more confusing that it needs to be i had to find through the menu of how to research things it's badly designed. There is a small in-game tutorial in this game but only covers the basics (and has bugs too) i am not going to download a PDF manual to learn how this game works i am not buying games to read instruction books sorry nope !! There are good sub sims, there are bad ones, then there are ones somewhere in the middle just like this game. It does some things better than the Silent Hunter but also some things worse. Overall feel is way more tedious and having to micromanage everything. The crew don't go automatically to their posts you have constantly to say what they have to do and they just leave their posts without asking you they decide to go to sleep or to play cards whenever they just feel like it. THIS A SUBMARINE AND NOT A BAR YOU DON'T GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT CAPTAINS PERMISSION!! Now as about subs the standard type VIIC boat had a crew complement of 40+. Here you get only 7-12 officers and maybe 5-6 sailors? You don't even have enough crew to have a full observation crew 24/7. That's absurd and unrealistic it seems the developer wanted to cause an artificial, unrealistic difficulty. It's not terrible, they just leaned so heavily into wanting it to be a crew management sim and having to buy new recruits. The actual warfare side of the game is lacking compared to games that have come before. In other titles, I've had some really tense moments. Here, those tense moments become tedious. Instead of worrying about the ships above, I have to figure out why Dimitri the mechanic refuses to fix the leak and instead wants to play cards. If you like sub sims this game is okay specifically, it's a filler until we get something better, i hope. If you just like war games in general just like me then better avoid this game. You won't want to deal with the all the micromanaging and having to read manuals to learn the game mechanics. »