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Full Steam Ahead – Puzzle Game Review
Full Steam Ahead is a Puzzle/Education/Simulation game from ss Great Britain Trust, first launched in 19th September 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 62+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Full Steam Ahead Stand Out
Brunel’s ss Great Britain, the Science Museum and Aardman Animations have joined forces to make this intriguing ship building puzzle game.
Let Isambard Kingdom Brunel himself be your guide as you construct a ship to face the same challenges which the great engineer faced when designing the ss Great Britain. Your ship should be strong enough to cut through rough seas, carry as much cargo as possible, go the furthest distance and destroy opponents in tug-o-war battles.
Chose your ship’s hull material (wood or iron), engine, fuel and propulsion mechanism to overcome the challenges posed by Brunel. The better you do, the more investor confidence, and so cash, you’ll earn; giving you more funds to design bigger and more complex ships!
Become a great problem solver, just like Brunel, and take inspirations from his determination, resilience to persevere and his ability to learn from his mistakes.
● Eight ship building challenges posed by your guide, Brunel
● Discover the capabilities of iron versus wood in the construction of your ship’s hull
● Explore the difference between paddles and the screw propeller
● Earn investor confidence to get more money for bigger and more complex ships
● Learn about the design and construction of the ss Great Britain
● Find out about the history of the ss Great Britain and the challenges she overcame in her working life
● Can you build a ship to rival the ss Great Britain?
Visit Brunel’s ss Great Britain to get special unlock codes for the game!
Plan your visit here:
http://ssgreatbritain.org/your-visit
Developed by Aardman Animations for Brunel’s ss Great Britain and the Science Museum as part of the Museums and Schools project; supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Find out more about the Museums and Schools project ssgreatbritain.org/brunel-institute
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Full Steam Ahead is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th April 2021
Recent improvements include:
Support for newer screen sizes.
Download & Availability
Full Steam Ahead is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Full Steam Ahead 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:
We are going great but Im just trying to get the code please tell us it.
Great game, no bugs we can see at all, all it needs is some more levels and advertisements to get people to download it.
This game is a awesome game. If you are interested in boats or their history, this is a game for you. SUGGESTION: we think that the triple expensive steam engine would be good for this. It could be in engine, and on the right you can select normal engine or triple expansion. The triple expensive should cost more and take up space, but it should be power full and give more speed. Also we think it would be nice if when you sail with a paddle, it puts a cover over its top like on lots of other steam boats. Great job on the game guys.
This game is amazing but it needs paddle steamers to be faster, triple and double expansions steam engines,different steam whistles for the ships, the super structure, and to make it so you can connect the steam engines funnels to one big funnel. You could also had multiplayer, have lots of updates and this game would become known again.
For some reason when we download the game the flood meater doesnt work like it wouldnt fill up as your ship is sinking.
Ive finished this game 31 times in one day every day and we wish that there was more levels and maybe multiplayer and it would be cool if you could build the superstructure of the ship that would give five stars from us.
If ur dream is to build a ship then download this app.
Make more levels and hard is easier than apprentice.
We love this game but it says to scan something on a ship. Please remove that and just make the content available.
We figured out how to use other materials and for anyone who needs to know, put the settings in "master"so you can create your own hull, and other materials are available to you in 'push the boat out'. We hope this helps with any confusion, and we sincerely apologize to the developers for our previous negative review as we were overreacting. We never did delete the game Because even if we had to choose a pre built, hull it still would be cool.
We love how you get to design your own ship from the hull to the deck. Love the imagination we can put into it. Definitely recommend.
We beat the game and it was very fun but now we dont know what to do in the game and Ive restarted a lot of times we feel like there should be more in the game.
It's ok but can you add building the hull again like the game used to have.
Although hard to use at times on our phone since it kind of small and hard to tap on things at times, now that we got on our iPad it's easier. You guys should add a zoom in option. But still amazing.
We found this little game lots of fun. You had to try out your different designs and see which works best. Very good.
It really needs more levels and maybe in some levels(hint: push that boat out level) have an like infinite amount of space to build your boat and again please please add more levels got four stars on every level……MORE LEVELS.
Love the game, awesome music, need some hints and tutorials and some gameplay but overall worth the money.
It is a amazing game it has lot of physics we like the the engine and we hope we see some update and we want the blue print biger pls.g.
This is a neat game. We hope we see some updates. The game is a lot of fun.
Your game is so cool with building your own ship.
We really like this app. Sadly,whenever we try to test our design on the first level, it crashes. Please fix.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.2
- Size: 33.19 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: ss Great Britain Trust
Last updated: 26th April 2021 | Genre: Puzzle, Education | Developer: ss Great Britain Trust