Panama Canal Simulator
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Live your dream of traveling thru the Panama Canal! Pilot a ship from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean and back. Take part in prototypical canal transits. A full 1:1 scale re-creation of the manmade waterway that changed the world, the Panama Canal.
A LITTLE HISTORY
Taking two countries over twenty-five years to build, the Panama Canal was the project they said couldn’t be built. They said man and machine lacked the ability to cut thru mountains and the Continental Divide. They could only be right for so long. Begun by the French under the leadership of Ferdinand de Lesseps after his completion of the Suez Canal, and completed by the United States, the Panama Canal opened for passage on August 3, 1914 and significantly cut travel time by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and cut out the extremely hazardous journey around Cape Horn. Requiring the removal of 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt, rock, and mud, and costing thousands of lives due to accidents and disease, the Panama Canal is one of mankind’s most important engineering accomplishments.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Start just outside the canal and follow the buoys and range lights into the canal, or take the long approach from 100 miles out and spend some time at sea as you look for land and lights. Choose your time of day. Transit the canal at night using nothing but the lights. Accelerate time or immerse yourself in a real-time simulation of an overnight canal transit and hours at open sea.
Drive legendary ocean liners, cruise ships, or Panamamax container ships. Meet ships along the way and take care to avoid collisions. Autotrack guides your ship as you control the engines and path. Watch for traffic and signals in the canal or watch the sun rise and set over the Caribbean and the Pacific. With buttery-smooth physics, rich vivid graphics, and ultra-realistic atmosphere and lighting, Panama Canal will set the standard for PC simulator games for years to come.
WITH SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
Simple and fun enough for kids and accurate and thorough enough for professional training, Panama Canal offers something for everyone! Hardcore simulator fans will revel in the advanced propulsion model, video game novices will appreciate the easy-to-use menus and controls that make playing super easy! Start the simulation and your ship is underway. Increase speed with the ‘D’ key. Slow by cutting your power with the ‘A’ key, and toggle your ship’s anchor with the ‘Back’ key to stop. Press F5 to toggle the HUD, F6 to show landmarks, and F7 to show other vessel traffic. Sound your ship’s horn with the ‘Space’ key and change views with keys 1 thru 6. It’s as simple as that. The ship is on a track and the water is holographic.. there’s no chance you’ll get lost and there’s no chance of seasickness.
Own one of the seven wonders of the modern world.. own the the Panama Canal!.. Add Panama Canal to your Steam Wishlist today! Coming August 2021!
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Great Lakes Simulator
Great Lakes Simulator… Drive 1:1 Scale Lake Freighters On The World Famous Great Lakes!
Live your dream of driving legendary lake freighters on The Great Lakes with this revolutionary new PC simulator that will take you to another level! Great Lakes Simulator puts you at the helm of a massive lake freighter underway on the Great Lakes. Head downbound from Lake Superior thru Whitefish Bay and the St. Mary’s River to Lake Huron and back in a 1:1 scale re-creation of the most famous fresh-water waterway in the world.. The Great Lakes.
Simulating a journey thru the Great Lakes allows you to gain an understanding of what to expect on the real journey. After a journey through Great Lakes Simulator you will be graced with the knowledge a seasoned mariner would need in order to approach such a journey with confidence. Great Lakes Simulator can accurately teach you the designated shipping lanes, dredged channels, anchorages and port locations, and the accurate locations of range lights, buoys, and lighthouses. You can set sail anytime you like.
A LITTLE HISTORY
The Great Lakes is a system of giant freshwater seas along the U.S. and Canada border connected by both natural and artificial channels and huge locks which enable navigation by large ships. The Soo Locks between Lake Huron and Lake Superior and dredged channels in the St. Mary’s River, the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River between Lake Huron and Lake Erie allow passage of huge lake freighters most years from late Spring through early Winter.
The Great Lakes are prone to sudden and severe storms, in particular in the autumn, from late October until early December. Thousands of ships have met their end on the lakes. The first ship to sail the Great Lakes, and the first ship to sink in the lakes, was Le Griffon. Caught in a 1679 storm while trading furs between Green Bay and Michilimacinac, she was lost with all hands aboard. The largest freighter ever wrecked on the lakes is the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank near Whitefish Point in a violent storm on its last run of the 1975 season, taking all 29 aboard to the bottom of Lake Superior.
The greatest concentration of shipwrecks lies near Thunder Bay, Michigan, beneath Lake Huron, near the point where eastbound and westbound shipping lanes converge. The Lake Superior shipwreck coast from Grand Marais, Michigan to Whitefish Point is known as the “Graveyard of the Great Lakes.” More vessels have been lost in the Whitefish Point area than any other part of Lake Superior. The Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve serves as an underwater museum to protect the many shipwrecks in this area. In Great Lakes Simulator, you will travel through both of these dangerous zones.
THE JOURNEY
Pilot a massive lake freighter downbound from Duluth, Minnesota across Lake Superior, down into Whitefish Bay, and into the St. Mary’s River. Not far downriver you will pass through the Soo Locks which will lower your ship 22 feet to the level of Lake Huron. A few miles past the locks the river makes a sharp right turn into a narrow dredged channel comprised of a number of ranges marked by special range lights set out in pairs to keep a ship in the center of the channel. Each set of range lights has a name which you can toggle onto the display using the F6 key. At Ninemile Point Light, the upbound and downbound channels split and follow separate paths around Neebish Island coming back together just before Hay Point.
Along the way, the Oak Ridge Range Lights and the Rock Cut and Moon Island Leading Lights guide your ship through some of the tightest and narrowest parts of all of the Great Lakes. Soon the lake widens before taking you past the town of Detour, Michigan and into Lake Huron. As Lake Huron opens up in front of you, an empty horizon reappears and suddenly you are back in the middle of the open sea. Travel downbound thru Lake Huron past Presque Isle, Thunder Bay, and Harbor Beach before arriving in Port Huron, your destination for a downbound journey. The upbound journey from Port Huron to Duluth is just as intense.
Great Lakes Simulator was built to accurately simulate the distances and times involved in transiting the lakes. At over 750 miles end-to-end, one complete round-trip journey will take almost 100 hours to complete. All of the included journeys total well over 500 hours, and advanced users can add their own mods and create their own journeys for a fully-customized world and an infinite combination of possibilities!
THE LIGHTHOUSES
The highlight of any journey thru the Great Lakes is the spectacular light show put on by the seemingly endless array of lighthouses and red, white, green, and yellow range lights, buoys, beacons, and light towers. Marvel as you sail past some of the most legendary lighthouses of the lakes including Detour Reef, Whitefish Bay Light Station, Manitou Island, Gull Island, the New Presque Isle Light, Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, and the Thunder Bay Light. And depend on the range lights and buoys of the St. Mary’s River as they guide your ship through the narrow dredged channels.
Nautical charts and Digital Elevation Model data were utilized to accurately recreate this dream world to an unbelievable level. Accurate latitudes, longitudes, elevations, and distances make this one of the most prototypical 1:1 scale digital environments possible. Many have pondered life aboard a Great Lakes freighter - this is your chance to simulate the journeys you would take in real time and in full scale. Sixteen miles an hour has never felt so sweet.
A SPECTACULAR PC SIMULATOR
Take the long approach and spend some time in open sea as you look for land and lights. Choose your time of day. Transit the lakes at night using nothing but the lights. Accelerate time or immerse yourself in a real-time simulation of a days-long transit and dozens of hours at open sea. Journey thru blinding snow and intense thunderstorms. Drive a massive cargo ship to real destinations. Meet ships along the way and take care to avoid collisions. Watch for traffic and lighthouses or watch the sun rise and set over Lake Huron and Lake Superior. With buttery-smooth physics, rich vivid graphics, and ultra-realistic atmosphere and lighting, Great Lakes Simulator will set the standard for PC simulator games for years to come.
Own one of the most famous and important waterways in the world.. own the Great Lakes!.. Add Great Lakes Simulator to your Steam wishlist today and set sail on launch day, December 15th. And be sure to tell all of your friends that are fans of Great Lakes shipping about Great Lakes Simulator. Thanks for your support!
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Powerboat VR
Right now the best boat simulator there is, its what ive been looking for years and finally found it. graphics are awesome, physics are good and overall its fun and makes me want to have a boat even more!!
10/10
– Real player with 27.3 hrs in game
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this is a game iv been waiting for in vr,great boat physics and so relaxing to play.always been a fan of power boats and this one has great water effects.the game needs the islands improved and better race courses but its still work in progress.looking forward to further updates
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Suez Canal Simulator
A lot has been improved just on the main screen before entering the ship. In the top right at the main menu there is a tab marked “Options”. In there are simple to understand controls which I recommend you write down on paper, a note file if you have a 2nd screen or something.. Also in options is a briefing or some such name. That tells you what you are responsible for doing and what you are not.
This is not for everyone. You need to not be after an exciting game with action. It is more for seeing what it is like on the canal. You do speed up and slow down, but, you don’t steer left and right. That is auto piloted.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Do not buy! Ugly main menu background, this game is horrible and has rigid gameplay, graphics are from another century. It’s uninteresting. Lack of action, the product seriously lacks work. Not worth more than 1$.
The dev even blocked me to not tell what I was thinking about his “simulator”
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Harbor Tycoon
#### Have your own sea transport company
Transport cargo across the sea, buying and managing your ships and your team.
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Coordinate cargo transportation and earn money
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Choose the best ships and complements at the dealership and make your harbor in the best way for you and your company.
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Hire and control your employees and have the best people at your side to help the company grow.
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Manage your properties and expand your business.
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Control your finances and invest your surplus money in the bank, or in difficult times try to get a loan from the bank manager.
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Sign transport contracts and transport things massively, earning a lot of money
Be a transportation entrepreneur, with control over everything in your business. Work, earn, invest and expand!
Success in sight, are you ready?
Deal closed!
MarineVerse Cup - Sailboat Racing
Excellent sail race game with a great community forming, and passionate developers keen to progress the game. if you want to learn about the intricacies and tactics of racing this is perfect. i’ve played it for a while now on rift s, and it works well, plenty of stats and race replays, leagues and multiplayer races can be found and the discord channel gives plenty of advice and ongoing support. look forward to more development in the future.
– Real player with 76.0 hrs in game
Here’s the deal. This isn’t the prettiest game you’ll ever play. There’s no gorgeous vistas to take in as you sail one of a bajillion boats along and watch DVD movies on an In-Boat entertainment system. It’s not loaded with eye-candy fluff.
It is an incredibly good tool to TEACH YOU HOW SAILING WORKS. How to actually sail a boat, how to handle a boat, how to hold a boat so you move along at 11.9 knots instead of 11.7 knots. How to “trick the wind” to let you work on the weak side of irons. How to make a boat pass around 5 buoys in the shortest time in a “never seen it before and never see it again” dynamic situation…and then getting that little endorphin dump to hear your own name called out as the winner of yesterday’s daily race.
– Real player with 53.0 hrs in game