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World Ship Simulator
Developer Odin Game Studio
Set in a fictitious environment inspired by ports from around the world. Captain a hovercraft, bulk carrier, yacht and other magnificent vessels in an expansive open world career From the Steam store page
123 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Feb 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
15
Rotten
19 positive · 104 negative
95% range 10–23%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
54 of 269 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 123 · most liked firstWhat a hot mess. Please note that this review is an initial, knee-jerk reaction to my first hour with the game, and I may revise it if things improve in the future. To begin, I do not recommend this game unless you're either feeling self-destructive or you have $15 dollars of disposable income that you'd rather not set on fire, even after covering it in dog poop. The game is being developed by none other than Exalibur Publishing, a bastion of few hits and many misses in the gaming world.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are looking for a ship simulator buy the version before this, European Ship Simulator. It's not perfect but it's a thousand times better than this. This is bad in every sense possible. Graphically it's well below the standard we should be expecting these days. The controls are difficult to figure out and to programme, mainly because of poor instruction and appalling screen guidance. What's with the timeouts on programming a button? Seriously. Why? What's the rush? The "on the water"…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am a big fan of the open waters and simulations... Im still waiting for a very good ship simulator. Or just an acceptable one which can bring all the atmosphere alive what a nature, navigation, sea life means. WSS can none of these. Terrible unnatural graphics, bad controls, absolutely no illusion of being out there. Why is so hard to build a good ship sim? I do not recommend this game anyone - even for free. :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bullsh**t. This is not a simulator, this is a scam. Invisible walls, maneuverability which does not look like a ship... Do not buy this thing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great improvement over what it is replacing. I found it fairly easy to control, and a bit slow, but then? This sort of game should be slower, right? Given the point it is at now as the starting place? I look forward to what it has coming. Water and other graphics looked good to me until going to the Tourism port by Fast Travel. Then the water disappeared or showed my port boat as more of a submarine. Outside that (which didn't crash it, as I could still moor the boat to go into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/CuWn396ryAY I sat down in the port smugly with my can of Juicy Lucy ready to be immersed into becoming a pilot. I was very shocked when I noticed a guy sat beside me with his feet through the floor. I tried to notify him in which he ignored me. I decided to go and inform the secretary but his feet were also through the floor! Everyone’s feet were through the floor! I almost fainted! That was until I found a lass who was walking with her feet on the floor. Although walking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is highly inaccurate. I've been the captain of many boats in real life, so I've gotten to know the inside and outside of these vessels. That being said, whenever a boat even emits the slightest whimper, I can identify the make and model of said boat. For example, I spend my leisure time in real life on my 2009 Yahama 190 FSH, an aquatic vessel with a delightful purr that brings even the most hydrophobic lasses crawling the dock. This game has the NERVE to introduce a sport boat, yet…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, it has to be said, this game is already a massive improvement on it's infamous predecesor..... that said, you can tell this is in early access stage, ok let's start with the bad.... -The night sky- This has no depth. I honestly think my grandmother could do a better job using MS paint and she can't even use a Nokia 3310! - Land bird noises out at sea- I know this may sound petty, but really, whenever I have been out at sea (7 ferry journeys this year) I have not seen a single…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this as a consolation prize when the previous design of it, Euro ship simulator, fell through from lack of support and interest in completing it. Can't say I'm surprised that this failed to meet even the same level of completion. Please don't buy it, you'll only be disappointed. I take my simulators seriously and had hopes this would be interesting. I even gave the complete change of product a chance. No more from Odin or Excalibur.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Ship Simulation world is dead at the momment because nobody has got it right yet. I started with VSTEP's Ship Simulator 2008 which looked like it was heading into the right direction. Then Ship Simulator EXTREME's came about which resulted into a tottal disaster so I gave up on VSTEP. Next I checked out Sail Simulator which is not bad acually just a bit outdated textures and graphics. WSS looked great at the start but I don't think it's complete yet. It's got alot of work to be done on it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A lot better than the game before, also i got it for free because the other game sucked that bad ;) Right now there's a lot of things to improve, but the base of the game and the fact that there is a gameplay, is a huge improvement! If you are thinking about buying this game, i would recoment to wait a bit or buy it on sale. To the developers, good work and keep it up! Hoping on regular updates and expantions of the map.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible! Unplayable, unbelievably glitchy and the FPS averages about 5 with graphics settings at their lowest (I have just been playing Elite Dangerous at full quality, so it is not my setup). Got this for free as I was stupid enough to but European Ship Simulator on release (it cost me £15 about a year ago), and I just feel offended that this is what is being offered in its place. I have now deleted this and ESS and have absolutely no intention of re-installing. This is an example of Steam…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an archaic looking arcade game that doesn't even run at 60FPS on an FX-8350, R9 290, 16GB RAM PC. I got it free after the Dev team for European Ship simulator gave up and the publisher found a new dev team. This game is ugly in comparison. But at least i runs better than the 12FPS I got in European Ship Simulator. My refund is on the way, and both of these games will be out of my library for good.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THE BEST IN THIS PIECE OF ABANDONWARE IS THE EXIT BUTTON! Seriously, avoid at all needs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well....I got this game for free, because European Ship Sim was ♥♥♥♥. They told us that they feel sorry for the last game and wanted to make us happy with a gift and perhaps a better game too....and its too much crap to handle with :)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If we are in 2000.I can love this game,but we are in 2016.In 2000, there is better graphics then some games.TOTALY EPIC FAIL!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this game for free and I can't even wish this game on my enimies, well actually I can. It sucks. 13 FPS on a Super SuperClocked GTX 960 on lowest settings? No thanks. Don't buy this game. Runs like sh!t, boring as sh!t and its a huge waste of money. Oh, and its made in unity, so, y'know.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, I got this game for free because their previous attempt "European Ship Simulator" was a giant fail. They did an interesting approach with the UI visuals, I like how it looks with the minimap and all. And that's about it with the positive points to this game so far. The sea water graphics really suck, plus the display of water was bugged for me all the time, showing it not as a consistent fluid but with texture breaks in between. The overall graphics are really not great and still, I got a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After starting out as European Ship Simulator and having issue, they changed the name to World Ship Simulator and again have failed to really get any mommentum going. It is just another failed game still available for purchase on Steam. Please take my warning and stay away from this game. It is in no way a finished product and I would not recommend anyone have anything to do with it or the people behind it's production. Thank you and good luck gaming. **I received this game for FREE do to my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Brought European Ship Simulator for a stupid price on release. Played the game for 1 hour and un-installed it. Get give this game for free. Yes, there are improvements... But still a complete waste of time. If you're thinking about getting this game, I would give it a miss.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It would be more fun if you could use any boat/ship you want in free roam instead of spending all of your time fishing or something just to spend hours or days trying to save up and buy a cooler boat/ship. i bought this game thinking it would have a free roam where you could do that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Completly Abandonded by developers. They have not published an update in over 3 year. Go get Stormworks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would not recommend this game at this stage because even on the lowest graphics settings the game is glitchy and exreamly hard to play because of its glitchyness.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Follow our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36214917/]Curator Group for more reviews World Ship Simulator is honestly one of the worst games I have ever played. It has huge performance issues, bland gameplay, frequent bugs and low quality graphics. What sets it apart from your usual shovelware is that this game appears to have actually been an attempt at making a great game. While yes, there are many games that are objectively worse than World Ship Simulator, most of those games are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game sucks. There was an earlier version that was great but bot this one. Don't waste your money!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So far the frame rate seems a little better than ESS but this is only on the first ship, the port boat; it's not much of a difference in terms of performance. The real litmus test will be the speed boat; on ESS it was practically unplayable, very low frame rates, laggy and stuttering. Will update this review when i get to purchase that boat. Graphics A little strange use of ambient lights. There seems to be an eerie glow to the port and sea environment but maybe 'coz it's dusk. Will update…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pants - thankfully this was free due to the other abomilation of a game. Dear developer please stop making these awful games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game so bad it should never have reached prototype. Its like a child that only a mother could love, but in this case I don't think the developers like it either. It is utter crap. In fact I would be happy to see they change the name of the game to World of ♥♥♥♥. How this game has passed any kind of quality control is beyond me. Even a blind person would rate this game bad. Why I hear you say. They couldn't even fix the horn sound properly. Whenever you move your camera and use the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy this game! No updates for over a year and developers doesn´t seem to care at all. The game has weird physics and graphics are aweful. The developers goal must have been to create the worst simulator and should rename this game to "Worst ♥♥♥♥ Simulator"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam should remove this from its product library. I love simulators especially ship/flight. Its hard to find a great flight simulator up until recent years but its still impossible to find even a decent ship simulation game and this game is at the bottom of a barrel thats already full of poop. I hope one day we ship sim fans will get the game we have been wanting for the better part of a decade. DONT BUY THIS GAME, maybe play it for free but dont expect a fun experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I received this product with European Ship Simulator which was a terrible game and I had wished for a refund after slightly clocking over 12 hours with the game. This game is not recommended and it's an imitation of European Truck Simulator 2. Here are some problems: -Bad graphics and game often catches causing to over heat my computer. -The only ship you start with is a tiny pilot boat -The characters in the game are disturbing to watch -Overpriced for a piece of junk. GET IT TOGETHER…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was so disappointed to see European Ship simulator abandoned and horrified that this crap replaced it. ESS was incredibly immersive and has so much potential, even now it should be revived and finished. World Ship Simulator is frankly a load of garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This product has been abandonded please refund me my money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so bad, so badly done, so horrible that it is like, literally swallowing a bunch of rocks and then try pass it out the next day whilst throwing salt on your eyes while having clothespin stuck on your scrotum.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Graphis: 6/10 Physics: 6/10 Gameplay: 5/10 This game is buggy. When attempting to complete the tutorial, the menus become bugged and not interactable leaving you with a screen full of tips, hints, and selections which you can do nothing about.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another POOR game... Message to developers: Better drop it guys... 2 simulators 2 failures...100% let down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR; Dumpster fire! This a very bad dumpster fire!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so bad, OMG just don't get it. You will be wasting your time. They should not have even put this game out for game play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →only one mission per ship you use, that kinda sucks, they should have put in mulitiple missions for each of the ships, so my thoughts are its kinda cheep game. just my thoughts tho.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The team seems to be focusing on everything except the "simulator" part. the tug handling does not give you an even remotely close sensation of being on a water vessel. very arcade-like... Still waiting for a more satyisfying handling, physics driven simulator. almost like an x-plane of Boats
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →reasons not to buy WSS Overpriced, Its not even worth 5$. The game pictures are so misleading The games grapics make SSE( a almost 10 year old sim) look incredible. The game looks like it came from a free model asset editor. There are no waves or wake from your boat. They try to force a tycoon aspect to it which just feel annoying and could be handled so much better. The dev team is exetremely untrustworthy (see euro ship sim)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I told the developers a about a bug that makes my game unplayable months ago and it still has not been fixed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Physics are horrible and don't make any sense. This is a simple arcade game which has nothing to do with real shipping.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game was good until the last update and now the game will not play; when nit comes on it sak for me to logg in my profile and when i click on my profile it dose nothing please fix
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is awful. really boring and no options to choose another ship.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thanks to this game I was able to get a refund on ESS
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →don't buy it ,its rubbish and bad i was lucky and got it for free
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the best feuture about this game its the exit button, it comes helpfull when you play
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The repair cost for even the smallest bump is astronomical. I get that it's a "simulator," but all you do is boat around with hardly any controls, so it's really not. Couple this with bugs that cause a ship to need full repairs and you literally don't get to play with new ships unless you grind forever. Fun and relaxing, but it needs a lot of work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1. A friend forced me to play it. 2. Its awful dont do it. 3. The fact that they charge anything at all for this, is insane. 4. Listen to all of the reviews. They are true. 5. Its just flat out awful. 6. Dont pay attention to the time spent playing. It froze and I just left it there. 7. Take this garbage off the store. 8. I'll pay you not to ever sell this to anyone ever again. 9. I'll also pay you to never create another video game again. 10. Congratulations. You made it to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No development on the game since 2016. The beginnings are well done, but there is really nothing to do besides navigate around your home port.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This started out marginally promissing, but very quickly faded away into nothingness. Yet another half-baked attempt at a very much sought after genre by a bunch of undedicated lazy developers. It really is a real shame that proper Ship Simulation has never been professionaly addressed; one where you could literally steam aroung the entire planet if you so desired. You would need to fill a flask and take a packed lunch mind you! Wouldn't this be something;- The watery World of Silent Hunter,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Go buy European Ship Simulator instead. This was a waste of a purchase for me. If you like the management side of shipping I would HIGHLY recommend Transocean! So look that up in Steam!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was meant to be an improvement to Euro Ship Simulator? What sort of apology is this exactly? Playing this game is like listening to Larry David eat pistachios while he's apologizing on the phone. In fact, this game is so horrendously bad that it may just destroy the market for ship simulators altogether for the foreseeable future.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remove the "simulator" from the name and it would be a honest title.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They need to improve the graphics and the fps because that is what makes the game bad atm. There is absolutly no diffrence between the "fast" graphics and the "ultra" graphics, on both the fps is still the same (around 30fps depending on the situation). I got this game for free because I had european ship sim. ATM I got to say: dear developers ....................../´¯/) ....................,/¯../ .................../..../ ............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸ ........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →nearly 12 months in early access what are you doing in dream land pull ya finger out ya quoit and bring us our game we paid money for ur lack of communication is shocking ill never buy a game from you again if i had disk version id record myself burning it so you can see
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an early access game and nowhere near finished. Fair enough. The devs are promising more ships, missions, career mode and possibly free roam. However, the game needs some very fundamental changes to the core. The graphics are very amateurish and, in the case of the scenes at port where one is trying to choose a mission, the whole thing looks like something from the 1990's. The NPC's look like something a child would create, the colours are all wrong and are too vibrant. The port…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was able to open it once and then it continues to lock up at start.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has potential if they will listen to the community on how to improve it. A lot of ideas in the community page point out to Euro Truck Simulator 2. I would also point out to TransOceania: The Shiping company for mission, map and leveling system and Ship Simulator Extremes for the first person camera view. The game looks nice graphically in most parts except the port's first person view / walk mode. These are totally horrible. As of now, I would suggest to keep this game in your…
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