UBoat

UBOAT is a WWII submarine management simulator that blends naval combat with resource management in historically accurate missions and tense survival scenarios. Despite its detailed mechanics and atmospheric visuals, the slow pacing and punishing gameplay can feel exhausting, leaving the experience both engaging and draining.

Uboat is a simulator that demands a significant investment of time. This applies both to learning the basics of gameplay and to fulfill scenarios goals. For this reason, it’s definitely not a game for everyone — especially console players. Why? Because the controls are just pure awful, and developers decided to remove mouse support from the console version altogether anyway. This looks like a fine game in its core, but just not on the consoles due to poor execution.

A game like this isn’t easy to evaluate, because for casual gamers it would be an absurdly difficult, awful, and not very entertaining simulator—one they’d probably spend a couple of hours on after watching The Hunt for Red October or some other submarine-themed spectacle, and that’s about it. But simulators don’t appeal to casual gamers. They have their own fans, who laugh off complaints about the graphics and difficulty. So now more than ever, it depends on which category you fall into. And even though every modern reviewer scoffs at catchphrases like “if you’re a fan, add two points”—which were so popular in the early days of game reviewing—that’s actually the case with games this niche. I truly believe that the average player will give the game a try, but the flaws will bother them. On the other hand, a fan of the genre—who doesn’t really have much to choose from these days—will be satisfied. I experienced this myself with Western games back in the days before Red Dead Redemption. However, at the time of writing this review, the game cost eight euros on Steam, and that’s an amount I’m willing to spend even for a few hours of entertainment—after all, that’s not even the price of a movie ticket these days.

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.

UBOAT is a WW2 submarine simulation title that is truly excellent and realistic in almost every aspect, which can lead fans of the genre to face a real challenge.