UBOAT
UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era, yet different than all you have seen so far. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time. In UBOAT you control the crew in order to control the boat. You look after their physical and mental health, because if the sailors are hungry, tired and their spirit is low, there’s no chance of winning even a skirmish. The extensive damage system is a foundation of the game's survival elements. Unprecedented situations are bound to happen as the effect of received damage, testing player's creativity and ability to stay calm. You can try to save the whole crew or leave someone behind, to save the others. While your ship travels through the open seas, you will often find yourself being on your own. Use your management skills to spend resources taken on the trip optimally and in special cases try to recover them on the sea, by asking your allies for the help… or by looting wreckages of enemy ships.
Game Discussion
Steam User 119
This is some serious next level strategy, easy to play (kind of) difficult to master...but when you start getting good what a dopamine rush it is when you sink that first destroyer.
good stuff
Steam User 71
After completing the campaign and unlocking every achievement, I can say that this game is really fun for casuals but annoying for hardcore people or just anyone trying to get the achievements.
The first 2-3 years of the campaign were really manageable and relaxed, except for the norwegian campaign which it felt really pressured and I did on the nick of time (the difficulty on the escort missions are really punishing too, wanting you to destroy +4 destroyers/corvettes numerous times throughout one single escort mission).
On the last part of the campaign where the enemies start having better radar and hydrophone, the amount of scripted air raids and aircraft spottings was extremely infuriating. You sail? Air raid. You resurface? Aircraft. You submerge and resurface again? Aircraft. You submerge and wait god knows how much? Aircraft again. It feels extremely scripted and makes a normal patrol feel endless.
It also feels exagerated having a sailor bleed out because my submarine is going at 2 knots and scrapping the sea bed...
Aside from all that, a couple of persistent glitches/bugs stood with me around the last 2 years of the campaign.
- GRT not resetting after a patrol (I literally ended the campaign with it saying 1.3 million tonnage).
- Persistent "damage" that doesn't fix when arriving at a port.
- Neglected interiors after going at 15000x speed... numerous times (doesn't go away).
- Bugged port arrival/exiting automatic waypoints. (The most common is the port close to Italy). If you don't pay attention you might as well ram against a shore.
Overall, the game is fun and has a lot of mechanics that you'll learn along the way. In my case, the campaign was so long that I had to take several breaks between months to finish it, so you have a lot to do. If you enjoy submarines, you might want to try it. If you like realism/difficulty, oh boy you're in for a ride.
Steam User 85
---{ 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
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
(its WW2)
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of it
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Steam User 43
Whilst I can readily recommend this to players who possess more skill, intuition and dedication than I have, it is with great regret that I find myself uninstalling this game after once again attempting to master the basics of its gameplay. Even on the lowest difficult setting, essentially "entertainment" level, I still find it far too difficult to complete missions without losing several crew members and, usually, the entire boat itself. Quite how anyone manages damage control limitation whilst attempting to plot a torpedo solution for a destroyer or corvette that are bearing down on them at the same time is beyond me.
I always watch the videos of Wolfpack345 and other players, enjoying their patrols and admiring their skill, but even with the appreciation of their methods and tactics, these do not translate to my game when I attempt a mission.
Having bought the game in early access, I can see that it has been developed and enhanced by its creators from a reasonable beta product into a fully-fledged top flight PC game. The community mod makers have added countless useful and valuable aspects of the U-boat service, and WWII in general, to further enrich players' experiences and long may they continue to do so.
Steam User 43
I lost navigation and maps, then I hit english beach at night without map, then I followed unknown boat just to discover it was another ally submarine. Didnt sink any ships and went home. 10/10 experience
Steam User 35
Once you get over the learning curve and you've gotten into the meat of the game, it's phenomenal. The settings allow you to be either a total novice and push a button to fire a torpedo, or to be an absolute wartime Chad and triangulate trajectories, ship speed, earth curvature, and weather conditions to find a successful shot (not to mention placement on the ship you're trying to sink, which is essential - hitting a Destroyer in the magazine can be the difference between life, or being dragged down to Davy Jones locker with your Uboat and crew after being depthcharged into oblivion).
You can down everything from freighters and tankers, to little fast-attack boats, to gigantic, massive battleships and huge carriers. The game has a cohesive storyline that follows the events of WWII. I'm not sure how it ends yet as I'm enjoying my time earning medals (I'm like maybe 80 tons away from the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oakleaves, Swords, and Diamonds as of this posting - yep, I've got the itchy throat, I need me them medals - got my Knight's Cross after I sneaked into Scalpa Flow and blew up the HMS Royal Oak at anchor, lost with all hands).
Can't recommend the game enough. If you like wartime games, playing as WWII-era Deutschland (with phenomenal German voice overs) and simulators, either easy or extremely difficult ones, you can't go wrong, folks.
Steam User 54
The ocean is huge and probably quite like a U-boot it means "hours" of boredom/frustration at not being able to intercept a ship/convoy and them suddenly action stations!
I like this game. A bit of a learning curve compared to say CoD but really satisfying when it comes together. Listening for the noises from ships screws, trying to plot an intercept, sorting out a firing solution.