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• gamedeal user

  Oct 20, 2017

  Pros - Pretty much every line in a sailboat is modeled and can be manipulated. - You can sail anywhere in the world. - Real-life weather data. - Pretty graphics. - Nice racing experience. Cons - Sailing dynamics are not simulated (don't be fooled by the game's name). Center of buoyancy, center of effort, center of lateral resistance, center of gravity are not modeled. Try sailing with just the genoa up. Spoiler: you can't. - Upper telltales just replicate the lower ones. In other words, sail twist is not modeled. - Heeling behavior is unrealistic and apparently scripted (poorly). - When you adjust trim or pull on a line, it takes time for it to take effect, as in, you trim in the main sheet, wait for a second, and the boom moves. Same with any lines. - How waves affect the hull is not modeled. - Unlike other sims which can be a training tool (like MS FSX), this is not a simulator of sailing. It could qualify as a simulator of sailboat racing perhaps, or a simulator of pulling lines on a sailboat, that's about it. - It cannot be played offline, meaning if you have no internet, than you cannot play the game. I look forward to seeing this game develop into a sailing simulator, which it is not at this time.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 29, 2018

  Honestly, hard work and attention to user comments and reviews have resulted in a truly fine sailing experience. This has been a big job for a very small dev team. Worldwide sailing in real-time, managed while you are offline, email updates, thousands of human sailors in solo or team modes. This is worth every penny.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 22, 2017

  I had originally purchased this game for the simulation aspect of the game and thought to myself wow looks great! I can learn to sail properly... YEAH NO! DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THIS! this game is nothing more then a line trimming simulator. The Pros Good water graphics nice boat models and weather as well as waves. yeah thats bout it.... THE CONS * It lacks any kind of visual appeal on the land... not even any trees just a big green and brown height map. * It completly lacks any ports of any kind to sail to ..not even a generic port randomly planted aorund the map until such time something good could be developed. (Would take to much work i guess) * There is no damage mechanics, meaning the mast will never snap, you can run aground with knowledge you will never sink. No damage even in terrible weather. * You can't capsize your boat... no sir... not even in a giant hurricane...you can rest easily knowing you will reach your destination no matter what the gods throw at you for you are LORD OF THE SEA and nothing shall stand in your path. * Can't enter the cabins... ur just basically standing there... trimming your lines every so often. * Only updates that ever come seem to be always for races and nothing actually towards the mechanics of the game/sim. We are then told that this requires the least amount of the devs time to put into the game which is fine and all but what else is he working on because it surely isnt the missing ports, propper terrain or any other propper mechanics. * Dev does not interact with the community aside from that one time he decided to write a letter about what the sim will not be which pretty much ruled out everything that could make it even a sim or remotely enjoyable. Instead he has some dude who interacts for him and makes nothing but excuses for why they can't do something. * Certain things take to much time and effort to put into the game so therefore the lone programmer will not be doing it... instead of making a propper learning simulation.. we have the standing still line simulator. I normally do not write reviews and this is the first i've done. I dont normally slam games as developing takes alot of time and commitment... which this dev is unable to provide. Week after week is nothing but racing updates, the game does not teach you the propper mechanics of sailing because according to this... you raise sails and |NOTHING can go wrong or stand in your way. I feel like i have wasted my money on this title and because i feel like i have been let down in some pretty big ways i felt i should write this for anyone who wants an accurate simulation..because this aint it and probably wont be it for along time if at all. I was hoping that this title would turn out to be more then a racing sim, offer true simulation... but instead i got half baked races, horrific terrain, complete inacuracy for learning how to sail properly... it's really NOT WORTH the asking price as the most content it offers is the boat itself. Sorry Dev and to anyone who enjoys this shamble... but this game is not worth the time or money wasted. I really wanted to recommend this to friends who would love to learn as well but i simply cannot under the current design. Maybe if some things change down the road in regards to terrain and damage etc as mentioned above then it would make a great sim but right now...no..not at all!
• gamedeal user

  Nov 27, 2020

  The Steam games is Sailaway 1.0 or Sailaway basic. For the pro version or Sailaway 2.0 you have to pay more money. What they are saying in Forums is BS. Unfortunately you have to buy this game to get the truth. just go online an buy the full pro version. They are just using steam as a way to make twice the money and for advertisement of full product. If they weren't why wouldn't they just make pro version available to steam?
• gamedeal user

  Nov 5, 2019

  I held off reviewing this a long time. But today takes the cake! Thumbs DOWN due to horrible business practice of a Forced update which removed my fully paid for Version 1 to a buggy, have to pay for pro to get the same boats I had back Version 2. This is one ticked off customer. I sort of liked the game. Now am livid as are others, as of November 4 2019
• gamedeal user

  Oct 15, 2020

  I used to live on my 27 foot sailboat and sail around the San Francisco bay area and loved it. But I got old and completely disabled so I had to move off my boat. This simulator takes me back to the pleasure and fun of those days.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 25, 2017

  Day 1: Sailing is hard! Day 2: Doing some beginner challenges and discovering sailing is really fun! Day 3: Changing difficulty to Expert and crossing the English Channel. Day 4: Googling "How to start sailing" Fantastic game!
• gamedeal user

  Nov 6, 2019

  I have over 7,000 hours on the game. And I don't regret any of the seconds spent on it, nor the next 7000 hours I hope to spend on it. The game does not deliver easily like the world of the sea. I had to learn everything, learn from players who sail in real life. Take a look around the Internet to learn more and more. Then the desire to get results in races did the rest. And I still enjoy sailing alone like a globe trotter between 2 races. This game, this simulator is a way of life. It can be hardcore if you want. Or easy to live with. Everyone has their own style and the sea for everyone
• gamedeal user

  Nov 26, 2020

  Enjoyed it until they ninja'd in the "pro" crap. Sailed around the world once, before that, though. Based on their comments, the devs seem to hate steam users; so there's that, too.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 9, 2018

  EDIT: This review was from 2018, before they changed up the pro/normal versions...I haven't played it recently but I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT, simply because of the bugs at the time of review, and now the added complexity of a pro/normal version would put me over the edge to actually not recommend it. Original Review before pro/normal versions: I'm not sure why there have been a flood of negative reviews recently. This game has it bugs, but it's nothing ground breaking. Most will go away with a simple game restart. The UI takes a few minutes to get used to, once you realize how to "minimize" and move the UI windows around while sailing, it's fine. (You can do this with the arrow to activate/hide, and the yellow strip at the top to move the window) As far as graphics, I think of this more as a flight sim for sailing. Sure the actual "shore" line isn't amazing 4k but it's fine. There are oil rigs and all sorts of other items placed in the world as well. Regarding not being able to see depth / plan routes, Yes you can to all of those. Depth is shown on the GPS tab of the navigation UI window and on the big picture Map tab if you zoom in far enough. It's all about the details with this game, take the time to go through all the tutorials, and take notes. I've got a long note pad document I keep on a second monitor for reference. Also take note of the shortcut keys for manupliating the lines, specifically Q and E, will allow you to cycle through all the lines on the boat. You can use +\- on the keypad to tighten / loosen these lines. This will make your life so much simpler. The weather is real time weather, and real time - timezones. I think that's awesome! I see this game as more of a learn the principles of sailing, and how to trim a boat, rather than a sight seeing game. Again I go back to -for me- This is like a flight sim for boats. You aren't going to learn everything in 1 day. Not even a week. The graphics aren't 4K tripple A standards but the details are - Boat, weather, seaguls, tide, etc. Overall I am enjoying the purchase, listening to the music and typing this review up while sailing from the Huston Port area to some bay area I found. I have the sails all set fine, and now I hear the seaguls again!