Blazing Sails
Early acces? It’s already insanely playable, nothing seems to be really missing and no huge bugs.
It’s a 4man team battle royale, it seems to take a lot of inspiration if not downright most of it’s stuff from sea of thieves.
The rounds are 5 - 20 minutes, divided in mostly 2 parts:
Looting and fighting.
during the looting fase you might run into other people on land, so combat ensues.
When sailing to the next island you might run into another ship, ship to ship combat ensues.
The safe area, as with every BR gets smaller and smaller, forcing ships closer and closer, these fights can turn very hectic very quickly.
– Real player with 256.5 hrs in game
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–-{Graphics}—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☒ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{Gameplay}—
☐ Very good
☒ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{Audio}—
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☒ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{Audience}—
☐ Kids
☒ Teens
☒ Adults
☐ All
—{PC Requirements}—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☒ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{Difficulity}—
☐ Just press ‘W’
– Real player with 119.5 hrs in game
World of Warships
Try it, don’t buy.
This is a game that starts simple, with a gentle learning curve and protected matchmaking for new players. It’ll be fun. You’ll research new ships, unlock missions, join a clan…and then you’ll inevitably hit a fun wall. Try being in a match against enemy Aircraft Carriers and having virtually no counter. Try being in a match with a Tier 5 glass cannon Cruiser against veterans in Tier 7 ships that sink you with one salvo. The power difference between tiers is slight to start with, and very wide at the top tiers. And this is a game that wants you to be at the bottom of the food chain, so you’ll pay to get to the top faster, or pay for a Premium ship because you think it will help you. It won’t.
– Real player with 6133.4 hrs in game
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after playing 1200+ hours..I think I’m qualified to give this review (you may disagree)
At the current state of this game I can’t recommend this game to everyone……
If you like games to be balanced,competitive,historically accurate…..then this game isn’t for you
If you like to spend money just bc you can then yes this game is for you….
Now if you wanna continue to read you are more than welcome :
first let’s touch the good things about the game:
1. The models for the Ships are truly beautiful
– Real player with 2411.2 hrs in game
Wolfpack
As a sub sim enthusiast since 688 attack sub (1989) I can tell you that Wolfpack is the next sub sim you’re going to want to play and will probably continue to play for years to come. This game is truly a profound experience!
To those with some familiarity with this genre you can expect this title to fall on the opposite end of the spectrum that the recent release UBOAT is on. Uboat is a crew management simulation. For perspective, Silent Hunter III would fall somewhere in the middle, as there is time compression and crew management but the player orders their crew to perform the individual functions on the boat.
– Real player with 266.1 hrs in game
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First off, if you are looking for single player experience, go back and grab yourself SH5 and The wolves of steel modpack.
That is, in my opinion, the best submarine simulator there is.
That being said, Wolfpack has unique hands on approach with controlling the boat itself, and it really is the best aspect of the whole game, that and the ability to play with other people.
After all the good things (two things) to say about this “sim”, I would NOT recommend the game for anybody. Not on the regular price at the very least. The game is really buggy (graphic glitches, sound bugs of massive forest fire starting on your boat, being able to drive too deep with diesel engines running, AI only caring about the boat that has done the most damage. to mention a few)
– Real player with 180.2 hrs in game
Legacies
In Legacies you are a team of eco-vigilantes who are trying to do good with what they got. Choose from an assortment of tech filled submarines, investigate distress beacons and gather evidence to discover what caused the cry for help. But beware, dangers lurk above and below the water.
Distress beacons can vary from ecological, exploitation or even natural disasters. It’s up to your team to work together to discover the cause, log the evidence required, and choose whether it’s time to fight or flight. Your team could turn in your evidence for money, or face the problem head on for an even larger reward.
ATLAS
the two words that describe a game like this are: DIGITAL HEROIN. the game is weirdly addictive but i will never recommend it to anyone as much of the time you are just staring at the screen for 3 hours while the boat moves- cant look away for even 15 seconds because a bunch of enemy ships may just appear in view in front of you, requiring 3 seconds of reaction time to steer out of the way, or else you lose tens-of-hours of work.. that’s fine for immersion, albeit a tad harsh, but the reason this is a negative review is such that the product is filled with bugs and spelling mistakes that have been present since game launch. new updates often re-break old features that were previously fixed on a repeated basis (sextant buff/autopilot.. coordinate space transforms arent that hard guys!). utter and complete world wipes happen upon developers' whim, so if you get into the game late in a season then you may as well not play because you will be so far behind the career players who got in 10seconds after new season and claimed every island and covered them with fence foundations so that nobody can build. and by the time you learn the game then the entire world undergoes another wipe which results in making game harder to suppress the PVP veterans; leaving anyone new to the PVE game in the dust. long story short: developers are struggling to tame their existing playerbase with no remaining capability to improve the game for the general public. its been almost 3 years since public release for paid product.. they cant claim “early access” anymore.
– Real player with 7104.9 hrs in game
This is the worst best game ever….
It’s pretty, it’s fun to play* and with a private community to avoid the toxic levels build up over the years from the wrongdoing of the devs, amazing and fun.
It is… however… full of bugs, without any sight of those ever being fixed. Arrogant devs who refuse to help people who are trying to improve on the game with mods and who ignore all feedback. No, all… feedback is ignored. They deploy enthusiasts to run their discords and take all the heat while hiding in the corner.
– Real player with 1697.6 hrs in game
Navy Field 2 : Conqueror of the Ocean
The particularity of this game is the 3rd person view so you are not stuck in your ship (like World of Warships) but you can see all the map (there is fog of war where you and your allies don’t see). I was searching for a game like that for quite a long time, NF2 is the only one I found.
Now, the game:
There is no tutorial or sandbox, so get ready to lose your first battles trying to understand how to use your ship. The community may help, using chat or websites giving advices and tips. Otherwise, learn by yourself!
– Real player with 916.5 hrs in game
Navy Field 2 is a good game in the sense that you’re never bored. Sure, the grind to the highest tier of ships can be boring at times, but not every game is the same.
Let me break the game down really quick and justify why I can recommend this game. Each game takes 15 minutes to play and every class has a use. Destroyers can take down Battleships with good torpedo placement and kill subs, Light Cruisers can hunt down Destroyers and aircraft, Heavy Cruisers are very much pocket Battleships and Battleships, well, deals tons of damage from afar but have limited maneuverability and sigh. Carriers are just as important because you’re constantly fighting off enemy aircraft, providing your fleet with line of sight, and bombing other ships. Sometimes the matchmaking will get a little wonky and put you in games with higher level ships, but I’ve had games where my lower tier Destroyer will be able to drop a high-tier Battleship so I’m not complaining. Not too much anyway.
– Real player with 308.3 hrs in game
Stowaway
This game is an absolute masterpiece. The graphics are so good I had an eyegasm just watching the trailer. This game play is like sex for your fingers. I cannot stress how amazing this game is, this game is easily game of the year without a second thought. The stowaway is one of the most innovative and original idea’s ever conceived by humans. I bought this game and it was so amazing that I had to buy it for my entire friends list as well. If you haven’t bought this game, make up for your sins buy purchasing it twice! Theres also lots of homie sex, dw we had socks on.
– Real player with 21.3 hrs in game
So, let me start off this review by saying that this game is the literal work of Christ, it is an S tier game. Ever since 2020 has started, everything has been going downhill, nothing good was happening in the world. However, this all changed when this God-given game, Stowaway, came out. This game is very goofy and is really fun, so Ima try to get some goons to play this game together. When I first saw this game and my buddy showed it to me, I laughed at this game and didn’t think much of it. After playing the game for a bit, though, I realized that is game is so much more fun than I could ever have expected.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Crush Depth: U-Boat Simulator
Disclaimer 26.04.2021 the reviewed game is subject to heavy changes and will soon be outdated because Crush depth receives everyday small updates and every thursday a larger one.
The Crush Depth: Tech-Demo currently just a tech demonstration and exactly only that this tech demo is not for the mainstream user who expect to have instant action and a quick gameplay. The game is in its very early construction and lets you see how a game gets developed from the bare bone up and you will get all updates and the finished game if you buy it this demo.
– Real player with 30.5 hrs in game
“He who wants to be victorious on the sea must always attack!” - From The Submarine Commander’s Handbook, 1943.
Though there is much, much left to be done, and heavy optimization that needs to be done with what is already in play(the frames on modern hardware are not great), nonetheless what is already here should prove to be quite interesting for anyone who takes the risk and plunges in, as I did.
Crush Depth is not a game that holds your hand: It is a game that expects you to learn how to operate a U-boat, and to do so properly and effectively. I was under the false impression that the U-boat was not currently able to move–I was proven wrong a little while ago when a kind fellow of the community showed me how the engine worked in the museum exhibit that you can train on. I had to learn myself how to work the electric engine by looking at the valves that existed and doing what I thought was the way, and sure enough it was.
– Real player with 26.4 hrs in game
Maelstrom
This game is very fun to play with a good overall community. It’s a fairly small community at the moment but with new players comes more ideas and things for the developers to work with. If you’re looking for a game to sail around in a ship and fight in an arena style battle game, this is a game you should probably check out. The developers are very active with it’s player base and are quick to respond to suggestions, bugs reports, and things of that nature. I honestly haven’t played a game where the developers are this interactive with it’s players that are always trying to find things to make the game better while still working on upcoming content. I see reviews popping up from time to time about “dead game” or “things are buggy or inconsistant but it’s just not true. Sure there are bugs or glitches that happen to some people from time to time but it’s a video game…..they all have issues from time to time but the difference is this development team reacts to comments well and offers updates to let us know what to expect or if fixes were found, etc.
– Real player with 688.4 hrs in game
To be honest i had my eye on the Maelstrom even before it went F2P, but i either had no money or was kinda wary of buying the cat in the bag, that i may not even enjoy.
But since it’s now free to play i’v tried it and i absolutely love it.
What is this game? Think - world of tanks but in the fantasy universe and on the ships. Ah, and it’s a battle royal as well. You fight for the naval supremacy either solo or in a team of 3. Maximum number of players in the match - 12. There are also NPC ships with very useful boons, natural hazards like whirlpools and monsters, and a very sneaky circle of the constantly constraining dark water with even more monsters. All this may sound a bit hectic, but belive me - this game is tons of fun.
– Real player with 363.8 hrs in game