Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age

Early access and big price tag is a scary combination, and you won't have the specifics of this game under control by the time you're past those 2 hours of Steam's refund policy. But if you like this sort of game (the one where you spend most of the time looking at a tactical map), have an interest in Cold War naval and a surprisingly big amount of aerial vehicles or like long-range missile warfare, this game is worth the risk. It offers an alright amount of missions and the devs recently released a linear campaign, the modding community adds a lot of missions on top of it (though it is one of those games where big updates kill all the mods and you have to wait for em to update). The ship models are really good looking, and have good animations on missile launches and aircraft takeoffs. The missile trails and explosion effects are also really pretty. It's not a game without faults though, enemy AI can be really stupid, your units can ignore orders or glitch out completely and if mi...

I am beginning to love this game!! As a former player of Harpoon and Cold Waters and a US Navy Surface Warfare Officer I can't stop playing

I want to begin with saying that this is a pretty solid game. But, as one can expect, it has a LOT of bugs. I would highly recommend not buying it until it's a bit more stable. The Campaign is a neat feature, but, I've had like six different saves corrupt and it's extremely annoying. Also, the carriers just randomly stop flight operations and get stuck. Furthermore, the AI still don't seem to make use of carrier fighters and air bases properly, making it difficult to do some missions. When more of the bugs are fixed, I'll certainly change this review to be more positive, as the Devs seem like they're working hard, and I don't want to paint a picture that they're lazy or something. I just don't think the current product is stable enough to be worth the money for the average player, yet. Also, it would be nice to see other cold war conflicts aside from the obvious USA vs Soviet Union, such as more with China, perhaps the Falklands War, etc. But obviously making the game stable shou...

I've played for a couple hours and the unit interaction is a mess. I right click to attack, whoops, now my carefully laid navigation path is overwritten. The UI is trying to do SO much at once, seems like you do EVERYTHING with right or left mouse click. Gives it a huge learning curve. More than I want to put into it. Maybe eventually I'll get used to it. I really liked the old days of controlling one submarine.

I like this game alot However. Could we please fucking do something about the radio man saying "Contact faded" "Contaced Gain" about 15 million times non-stop because there are some airplanes flying in a circle litterally 100 nautical miles away. Please. Perhaps a cooldown on when the guy says contact fade on new tracks or what have you or just a range limit on what he'll say it about for certain object types (Much lower for planes for example than warships)

There is so much to like about this game. I've been doing naval warfare since Harpoon, and I've been looking for something like that ever since. Command: Modern Operations is awesome and my top pick. Sea Power adds a very nice graphical component which I enjoy. However, aircraft randomly crashing into the ground, orders that are ignored, submarines seemingly seeking out situations guaranteed to result in destruction, give me the sense I've got a limited amount of time from the start of a scenario before software defects overwhelm game play. And it happens every single time. $50 is a significant premium to play a game that is obviously not ready for prime time. I'll keep it and hold out hope for future releases.

While very fun, I cannot recommend this game until several very un-fun problems are fixed (so, probably full release). Sometimes, units just ignore you. Sometimes, units plot their own courses, or just stop dead in the water. Sometimes, units refuse to fire, and get themselves sunk because they won't. It's supremely frustrating to spend the better part of an hour navigating around, making smart decisions and playing things safely, only to have your ships start refusing to fire and being wiped out in the span of a minute. It's a fun game when it works, but it doesn't always.

when there is no competiotion games like this emerge and unfortonatly simple people like me and many others buy this game only to faced by a strike group which moves at 10kn and physics warp of 30 money wasted

can't recommend this at the current time.. There are no tutorial missions, just a bunch of videos that burn up your refund window (don't intend on refunding, but with publishers these days releasing garbage that doesn't work or doesn't live up to the marketing hype, I'd like to keep my options open). I have 68 minutes of "gameplay," almost all of it spent watching videos (that are honestly about as engaging as watching paint dry) that do little more than explain all the windows and nothing telling me how to actually play the game. Think I'm just gonna stick with Command or Cold Waters for awhile. Edit: Appreiate the Devs reaching out to say that Tutorial missions will be available on next update.. I'll update this review after trying it out.

Too buggy. Units regularly do not follow orders for navigation or attack. Especially when attack orders change due to a dynamic theater. There are reportedly work-arounds involving issuing cease fire orders, or disbanding formations prior to new orders, but these ruin the game play and the suspension of disbelief.