Last updated on December 11th, 2025 at 03:44 pm
Ship Handling Simulator – Education Game Review
Ship Handling Simulator is a Education/Simulation game from Aleksandr Turkin, first launched in 5th September 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 298+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Ship Handling Simulator Stand Out
Original simulator of ship-handling, maneuvering and mooring to a pier with tugboats.
29 high-detailed ships, included passenger ships, cruise liners, cargo ships, battleships and aircraft carriers, from historical steam ships of 19th century till modern nuclear.
Realistic control of single and multi-screw vessels (including famous Titanic, Britannic 1874 and 1914, Carpathia, Mauretania, Aquitania, Olympic) and azimuth propulsion.
Maneuvering with thrusters.
Mooring the vessel to the berth using two tugboats with separate control.
Departure from the berth and arrive into target area.
Narrow-swimming, bypass of hazards, minefields, passing with other AI vessels.
Sea marks of hazards and channels according to international rules.
Day and night modes, different environment and weather conditions, calm or storm water with ocean waves and icebergs.
Sandbox mode. You can create and pass your own levels.
Damage and sinking of ships at collisions, splitting in half while sinking.
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Ship Handling Simulator is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th May 2025
Recent improvements include:
New ship – Prinz Eugen.
Download & Availability
Ship Handling Simulator is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Ship Handling Simulator on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is a great ship sim which is both fun and challenging. We have some ideas to improve the sim: 1. Add a tugboat to the list of ships that can be piloted: It would be interesting to operate one of the tugboats and position yourself appropriately to push and/or tow a ship into position 2. The mooring tugboats dont currently have a propeller animation: Add propeller animation when then mooring tugboats are using forward or reverse thrust 3. Add a tutorial or help file to the sim 4. Add a pilot boat. It would be a fun challenge to have to dock a pilot boat with a ship so that the harbor pilot can climb about 5. Add ferry boats. It would be cool to have both passenger ferrys and car carrying ferrys. Some good examples of passenger ferrys are the boats operated by Staten Island Ferry and the San Francisco Ferry. 6. Add a submarine. It would be a fun challenge to depart or arrive at a port with a submarine 7. Add the ability to deploy lifeboats if ship is sinking 8. Add ability to control ballast water on a ship for weight and balance changes. Five stars well deserved keep up the great work.
Dude- the price is WORTH IT!!!! The game is super fun and addicting! Best game- one idea? Could you add lifeboats that you can deploy and npcs that act like humans- that would be cool.
We love it but it is hard to make your own ship to us we are 8 years old and also how do you pick different ships.
You should add Lusitania and SS Normandie.
Its a good game we started playing it because our brother was playing it and we found it very interesting so we downloaded it and we liked it we played a lot.
We didnt know if there was a Lusitania or not but there our question is we were wondering to ask if you would be able to get the Baltic the Adriatic, the Celtic, the emperor of Ireland Casa de Cantora nomadic SS America in Queen Mary Y.
This app is amazing don't get us wrong but we do have a few suggestions. 1. Pls make it drain battery slower: we had many issues with this game where it drains our battery WAAAY too fast. Like we have to have our power bank around anytime we wanna play this game (we know this might just be a us-problem but pls fix it) 2. Add more ships: and we do have a few ships and subs we want u to add (btw 3 of them are all related to Titanic and the other 2 hold the record for deepest shipwrecks in the world) 1. Californian 2. USS Thresher 3. USS Scorpion 4. USS Samuel B Roberts 5. USS Johnston anyways thanks for a great game 5/5 stars pls add these suggestions if u don't we will CRASH OUT AND GO INSANE(jk we won't) k bye.
We feel like this game is awesome it just needs a update with better physics and more ships.
This was a great ship game. You can sink the ships which we love. It occupies us in a long car ride. And overall pretty good. This game just needs one more thing. We want the ships to have crowds. But under that one thing. This is a very good game.
We think it would be fun to sff customizing ships, a bit like tiny sailors world on Roblox(idk just thought it would).
We know the point of the game but if you crash the boat into stuff you can watch it sink and to us that is the fun part.
Can you add the original white star line color way version of the Britannic.
Can you add in the game to where you have to actually dock the ship including the mooring part where you put the ropes onto the dock and can you please add more car carrier ships and also add the ships that carry the paper like Star ISFJORD.
It would be nice to have different engines noises and whistles. Also please add a tutorial for the sandbox mode please.
The damage on the ships make the game bad. Its a good game without damage.
Excellent sim, but the visibility of speed indicator is very bad. Speed is critical to score, yet the readout is microscopic, and gets invisible against many backgrounds. Perhaps display boldly in the upper left.
We love this game but with out new ships its getting boring might we suggest adding the ships SS United States and queen Mary or the leviathan because we always have wanted to see that in this game please consider thanks.
Ive been playing this game for a couple years now and we love it its a fun little ship simulation and sandbox! But please add more ocean liners !! Like the SS United States and the Queen Mary.
This is an amazing game. Im actually amazed how we made this game. Our suggestion is when you get AI ships. Can you actually decide how much you get in the game because people want a certain amount of chips so thats what we think you should work on overall its great, keep on the work.
So the ship can split in to 2 but we need funnel breaking.
Is it possible that when all the steam ships sank can you make it so the funnels break off the steam ships for more Realistic sank that is really all we want you to add in a next update it also would be nice if we can build our own ship to the funnels need to still break off the ships when sinking also add a ocean floor to the the game depending on how far away from land you are it would be nice to add the ocean floor for better real we have some ideas of some new ships you could add The RMS Lusitania and The RMS Queen Mary SS Californian and the RMS Oceanic and The RMS Adriatic.
Can you guys add the following ships (if you can)? RMS Queen Mary: ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2: ocean liner S.S costa Concordia: cruise ship M.S Estonia: cruise ferry.
Its cool that you have battleships like the USS Iowa and HMS repulse but the one that we really want added is the Yamato which is the worlds most largest battleship ever made. Can you please add that into the game thatll make the game like 100,000 times better please and thank you.
Is good but they should add subs and torpedo strikes and the Lusitania and we on some tine the engines still work so the ship sinks faster.
The ships are great, every thing is great, we play it all the time. But some ship models are not as good as others, for example, the titanic model is great but the Britannic needs some work. When the ship splits the model gets less detailed then the actual ship. We love the crash physics, they are great. So the game needs some work, but over all it is a good game. All that needs work is the ship models and the split models, because some are not accurate and the breakup points are not accurate( if the ship split in real life) other than that it is a good game. We hope you consider our ideas for making the game better. Thank you in advance.
This is honestly a good game but when the ship sinks most of the time the ship will get a list, go down by the end that the damage is on and capsize at very end. This is simply not accurate. Ships dont capsize like that. Also the only sinking that you can get other then that is the split. Basically Im asking you to add a couple other types of sinking then just weird capsize and split. One other thing is that Britannic looks pretty rushed. Other then that the game is good.
We think in the game when a boat sinks you can click on a lifeboat and the lifeboat lowers that would be a super durper cool update.
Can add a setting of the new update.
When we first downloaded the game, we liked it. But we thought that there isnt really a sinking part of the game. So, can you add sinking simulations? For example: Sinking by simulation, v-breaks, Sinking with splits in them. Thanks for reading.
Can you add the French battleship Richelieu? And can you also shift the game is tactics because on the ship cut through the waves we think its not really that realistic it all and this is like the only game we can play decides vehicle simulator since vehicle simulator is like the top game we really want to play and it won the ship cut through the waves. We kind of like it better when the water goes up instead of not the water not going up against the bow of the ship and also with that can you add the HMS hood please and can you add the Japanese battleship Yamato? Also, can you add the SS United States? But we think we cannot get off this game because it says the computer device we need to use vehicle simulator on. It seems like that they do not make Windows 7 computer anymore and we do not know if window 10 wouldnt work but thank you if you could please add it as soon as possible since usually seems like none of the updates on a game. We never see any of our requests a lot. Oh, and for some reason, we always want the open button to say update, since we absolutely love it when a new ship decided this game And also with that, can you also ship the water tactics? Can you just make it a little realistic? And also make the waves look a little more realistic and they will also go up a teeny bit, but not like large waves, but only if you raise the wind And also, can you make it so you can put a mode if you want the ships to go with highest highest speed, it ever reached in real life like Aquitania reached its highest max speed of 28 kn one time for example and also, can you also make it so theres also a real horde of the ship like all them but if you cant find the real horn recording of some of them, you can just keep those ones and at the same horn or you could just find a different one besides that one And also just like tiny sailors world, can you add ship options to Oh, so you could do things different with your ships? But first you should probably look at tiny sailors world ship options because so you know what it looks like since we would want to see those things in this game tactics. But you would probably have to buy some Robux for it because it costs 99 Robux. And the game is on Roblox. You have to check out chip options because so you know what it would look like and you could please sit on this game. And also not always wind winds are not raised always sometimes the smoke from the finals will go a different way just like from tiny sailors world and also, can you make it so you could also make other games like ocean liner race, and also battleship convoy battles, and also battleship battles, but battleship battles does not have to be connected together with battleship races They could all be just different games and also if you make those games Ill tell you some ocean liners and the brittanic MV georgic well also, can you add cargo ship races to what? What oh OK and also can you make it so when you spawn a battleship in the game you could also put by the gauges that says fire and you could fire the guns and also can you make an animation for that one, the treats fire at something. And also, can you make different syncing animations like that or can be German U-boats in the area and also mines and torpedo sinkings all of those are sinkings, and also rogue waves to but different animation from a rogue wave And also, if your ship is sinking, you could also use pumps to, but those are only activated three times You dont have to do all these at the same time but you could do them. Its a different time but thank you for for doing these. If you might do all of them thank you very much. We wish we could reward you for all of this for you doing this we wish we could pay you one quadrillion dollars. But not just that sometimes when Im doing sandbox and we want to do a battleship resource ocean liner race at times Im going full speed ahead but Im not sure about the other ships if theyre going full speed ahead. But thats all weight, but not but not all actually we might add can you add the Windsor Castle we dont need a castle by a ship thats called Windsor and also, can you make it so we could also have a horn ID so we can make a different horn for a ship Also, can you add the USS Missouri also, if you do all this, we would want to find you and give you a starmillon dollars Thank you feel do all of this.
This game is really really really fun but you guys got to add the RMS queen mary.
Can you add the French battleship Richelieu? And can you also shift the game is tactics because on the ship cut through the waves we think its not really that realistic it all and this is like the only game we can play decides vehicle simulator since vehicle simulator is like the top game we really want to play and it won the ship cut through the waves. We kind of like it better when the water goes up instead of not the water not going up against the bow of the ship and also with that can you add the HMS hood please and can you add the Japanese battleship Yamato? Also, can you add the SS United States? But we think we cannot get off this game because it says the computer device we need to use vehicle simulator on. It seems like that they do not make Windows 7 computer anymore and we do not know if window 10 wouldnt work but thank you if you could please add it as soon as possible since usually seems like none of the updates on a game. We never see any of our requests a lot. Oh, and for some reason, we always want the open button to say update, since we absolutely love it when a new ship decided this game And also with that, can you also ship the water tactics? Can you just make it a little realistic? And also make the waves look a little more realistic and they will also go up a teeny bit, but not like large waves, but only if you raise the wind And also, can you make it so you can put a mode if you want the ships to go with highest highest speed, it ever reached in real life like Aquitania reached its highest max speed of 28 kn one time for example and also, can you also make it so theres also a real horde of the ship like all them but if you cant find the real horn recording of some of them, you can just keep those ones and at the same horn or you could just find a different one besides that one And also just like tiny sailors world, can you add ship options to Oh, so you could do things different with your ships? But first you should probably look at tiny sailors world ship options because so you know what it looks like since we would want to see those things in this game tactics. But you would probably have to buy some Robux for it because it costs 99 Robux. And the game is on Roblox. You have to check out chip options because so you know what it would look like and you could please sit on this game. And also not always wind winds are not raised always sometimes the smoke from the finals will go a different way just like from tiny sailors world and also, can you make it so you could also make other games like ocean liner race, and also battleship convoy battles, and also battleship battles, but battleship battles does not have to be connected together with battleship races They could all be just different games and also if you make those games Ill tell you some ocean liners and the brittanic MV georgic well also, can you add cargo ship races to what? What oh OK and also can you make it so when you spawn a battleship in the game you could also put by the gauges that says fire and you could fire the guns and also can you make an animation for that one, the treats fire at something. And also, can you make different syncing animations like that or can be German U-boats in the area and also mines and torpedo sinkings all of those are sinkings, and also rogue waves to but different animation from a rogue wave And also, if your ship is sinking, you could also use pumps to, but those are only activated three times You dont have to do all these at the same time but you could do them. Its a different time but thank you for for doing these. If you might do all of them thank you very much. We wish we could reward you for all of this for you doing this we wish we could pay you one quadrillion dollars. But not just that sometimes when Im doing sandbox and we want to do a battleship resource ocean liner race at times Im going full speed ahead but Im not sure about the other ships if theyre going full speed ahead. But thats all weight, but not but not all actually we might add can you add the Windsor Castle we dont need a castle by a ship thats called Windsor and also, can you make it so we could also have a horn ID so we can make a different horn for a ship Also, can you add the USS Missouri also, if you do all this, we wouldnt want to find you and give you a starmillon dollars Thank you feel do all of this.
Alexander, your game is great, but however, it needs some suggestions, like say people on board the ships, like people walking around, and once that red circle goes into a full loop and theres a fault, the game spawns in the user on that sinking ship in first-person view and that user controls the person, going in lifeboats or staying on the ship and dying once they touch the water. Also, add physics in the game, because the ships sink like they dont have compartments or they sink like they do have closed compartments. The game would be better with these suggestions. Also, once the water circles the entire funnel, the funnel collapses. Thank you.
Also add more car carrier ships and add the ships that carry the paper and add the docking mode where we have to put the ropes onto the dock.
Possibly get a chance to add more things like more things we dont know what but you have a great game.
We have downloaded this game 5 times after having paid $12.09 for it for our son. It wont open at all. What a waste.
This game is super good! But there are some things that we want added.. Soooooooo could you add a button that sinks the ship? That would be super good and also make the graphics better please Caz there not that good and could you add the funnels falling? That would be SOOOOO good!!!!!! Also when the ship splits could you add splashes?? We like splashes and the game is good also can there be different ship sinking like the v break and Roy mengot's titanic theory and capsize and just more sinking cuz Im tired of hitting icebergs to sink the ship if u add this we will JDJCBSKCBSKDBKSBD LOOOOBVVEEEEE LOOVE THIS GAME IT WILL BE SOOO COOL AND ILL PLAY IT EVRY DAY.
Is it possible that when all the steam ships sank can you make it so the funnels break off the steam ships for more Realistic sank that is really all we want you to add in a next update it also would be nice if we can build our own ship to the funnels need to still break off the ships when sinking also add a ocean floor to the the game depending on how far away from land you are it would be nice to add the ocean floor for better real we have some ideas of some new ships you could add The RMS Lusitania and The RMS Queen Mary SS Californian and the RMS Oceanic and The RMS Adriatic.
Very fun game but we think you guys can add a sink button with different ways to sink your ship and also make it to when you are sinking the lifeboats deploy.
Make it to where the smoke pipe the funnel fall down when the water touch them while the ship is sinking make it to where there is fire explosion and also add some scraping hole in the ship to make it realistic and also make it to where you can get on the lifeboat as a first person view yourself walking while the ship is sinking this is our final suggestion so developer add every update to make the game even more better then before :).
Thats sounds great and fun we love it.
Really nice, but ships should have custom sink options, funnel falling, better physics, and funnel falling Also, please add the SS. Edmund Fitzgerald :).
Let people update it more! We want more ships.
The Game is So Fun But we Have some Ideas For it Add Ships From Cruise Ship Handling Add Buttons For Buildings On Sand Box and Add A Button for Shooting on Battleships we Now its a Lot But Just Add Some Please.
A steering wheel being able to explore the ships and adding online being able to save other ship working lifeboats u able to see little people on the boats adding planes and submarines and guns on the submarines able to customize your on ship picking how your ship Is going to sink and u can name your ships that is all our Ideas.
Update didnt help for having but he got up early for job training for his team.
This game is fun to play when bored, or just keep your mind off of it. The games needs to fix up the bugs and add in better boats. Or make the game look like real life then the game will be fixed.
Please add more ocean liners!!! Especially the queen Mary, ss United States, the ss Normandy, and the rms oceanic 2! Sincerely a player of your game.
This is a great game but the only things that should be improved are the details They arent really nice for the expensive price of this game so please greatly improve details for all ships, and urgently titanic. And second this game really needs more frequent updates. We understand your a single developer working hard but we are sure if you put a little more effort in this game it will be good. And it needs more ships and one ship we can think of is Lusitania and maybe you could add some submarines to the game? Plenty of subs like Belogorod class, foxtrot, nautilus and Im sure you could name it anyways if the developer reads this. Thank you.
We do not like using titanic because theres no crows nest please add one makes it look more real.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.46
- Size: 633.17 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Aleksandr Turkin]()
Last updated: 14th May 2025 | Genre: Education, Simulation | Developer: Aleksandr Turkin