Silent Shark

I was sceptical at first, but i got to say it impresses me. Yes of course the graphics aren't fancy like Uboat or Silent Hunter, but thats not the point of the game. I like the simple style and would like to see the game grow bigger. What i like the most is that you can play it without much knowledge of uboat warfare and tactics, if you just turn the difficulty down you can feel like a real uboat captain without any poor guessing and complicated formulas to determine speed, distance and AoB. 9/10 recommend if you want to start uboat games (1 point more if i get a deckgun)

Silent Shark is a nice, casual little sub‑sim with a fresh, minimal approach to the genre. It’s challenging without ever feeling arcade‑like thanks to its focus on the tactical map, yet still easy to get into due to its well‑designed UI. It doesn’t fully exploit its potential yet, but it’s already a solid and genuinely fun game to play. My personal wishlist would be this: short-term: - ability to plot multiple waypoints on the world map and move them around just like time stamps - ability to plot routes that loop - direct controls to manoeuvre the ship long-term: - a few more different ships - dedicated screen for home base to allow quitting the game at rest and then choose between 2–3 different mission types in order to make the campaign less linear - vector world map that is more detailed and accurate, so that approaching enemies on the world map is more fun on higher zoom levels - implementation of different sea depths across the world map - sound-improvements quality of life: - time‑to‑impact info (TDC) - save (all) settings of the scenario generator - distance rings that can stick to your own ship

Fantastic sub sim. It goes to show you don't need fancy graphics to have a very detailed sim in with you need to use your brain power to plan and execute your enemies course and feel very satisfied when you are successful. Then you need to evade the destroyers that are hell bent on seeking you out. 100% replayability with the missions and the fact in launches with a scenario generator and editor. The Campaigns never play out the same way with regards to the cat and mouse game of hunt and destroy. It is historically accurate. The dev is very active and involved with the community on discord. Best game I have played in a long time.

I'm gonna say yes, I recommend this game, BUT with a small caveat. If your eyes are not great and you don't have a super large screen, it can be hard to see. In my case, the periscope was too small for me to be able to really identify targets. (I even have it set to the highest scale) That said, from what I could play of it, it was quite good, and I'm not going to let my inability to see well dictate that a game deserves a thumbs down. =) Just sort of a warning for those who struggle with their vision. TBH I think the only thing that could sanely help me be able to play it would be if it were possible to full screen the periscope.

This game is an absolutely monumental achievement for a single dev and it's criminal that it hasn't received more attention. Any tactics or wargaming fan owes it to themselves to play, at the very least, the fairly generous demo. I've seen a lot of folks call the 2D presentation "stripped-down" but I think of it as a strength to be played into. The stylized binocular and periscope views that cleanly convey vital information about the world and your targets, enemy aircraft launching red blooms of signal flares over your last position, every satisfying click of every dial on the TDC are all incredibly well-executed. I'd compare it to Golden Lap as another game whose beautiful 2D presentation belies its gripping complexity. The two things I want to give a shout to are probably the same things that everyone else talks about which is the sound design and the enemy AI. This game has taught me things about evading destroyers that Uboat, Sea Power, and Cold Waters all failed to. They are relentless, smart, and scary, and the sound design also really contributes to that feeling. Five sonar pings in a row followed shortly by the rolling thunder of depth charges tends to put you on edge. Escaping without damage always feels like a minor miracle. If I had to try to scrape together some kind of feedback I would say that while the dynamic music system is great, it gets a little samey, and having the action segment trigger while I just have my periscope up with a 0.5% chance of detection is a little much. Having that only trigger upon actual detection or an enemy alert would both be more useful and ensure the music is more appropriate to the moment. I'm really not taking any points off for the lack of variety though because music probably isn't John's forte and he still did a great job with what's there. I'm gonna be playing a lot of this game, it sounds like there's already some more great features in the works (deck guns!), and even without them it's right among the best subsims I've ever played. Tell your friends please!

That's just what I was looking for: A neat Sub Attack game, with several settings to adjust the difficulty, all available US submarines of the time, air and destroyer combat and tons of merchants to sink. Sticking to the core business without having to micromanage a thousands things and I like the sort of basic graphics, too. No Unreal Engine 5 fireworks of splendid imagery. That's not needed. You're confined in a tight space and all you see of the enemy is either through a periscope or binoculars. There are plans to develop it further (adding deck guns and other stuff), but I hope it keeps that simple and somewhat generic look and feel. Cause that's where its charm lies. It has what it needs to avoid boredom: A very very fast time acceleration (100.000 max) and even a 0.5 time deceleration. If you want, you can pause the game at any time, like, for comparing and identifying ship outlines or thinking the situation through. Full thumbs up from me and thanks for a fun game. 👍

If you enjoy the tactical maneuvering and hunting portion of the Silent Hunter series, this distills the experience to it's essence while preserving the realism. Excellent map tools and a good campaign mode.

It looks great from the little I've played. Great music, sound effects, clean interace. I'm glad there's games like this nowdays, with how expensive pc parts are becoming, and new games needing 32gb ram to run with like skyrim level graphics. I can run this gem on my backup potato Laptop.