Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 08:01 am
Virtual Regatta Offshore – Sports Game Review
Virtual Regatta Offshore is a Sports/Simulation/Sports game from Virtual Regatta, first launched in 29th October 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 706+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Virtual Regatta Offshore Stand Out
WHAT IS VIRTUAL REGATTA OFFSHORE ?
Virtual Regatta Offshore is a free sailing game, an offshore racing simulation. Virtual Regatta Offshore is not like simple sailing games, by playing Virtual Regatta Offshore you become the skipper of your boat/sailboat against the "winds of the globes".
Race against hundreds of thousands of rivals in real time and compete against Vendée Globe skippers like Jérémie Beyou, Sam Davies and Alex Thomson from your computer, smartphone or tablet.
ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES ON VIRTUAL REGATTA OFFSHORE!
An incomparable fleet of sailing boats: you will have more choice than in a boat rental! Indeed Virtual Regatta Offshore allows you to sail on many boats such as Class 40, Imoca, Figaro, Imoca, Ocean 50, Offshore Racer, mini 6,50, Super Maxi 100, Tara, Ultim, Caravelle…
In addition, several formats of offshore races are available to delight all e-sailors.
AS CLOSE TO REALITY AS POSSIBLE!
Virtual Regatta Offshore innovates day after day in order to bring e-sailors closer to the real conditions experienced by skippers on their boats at sea with features such as
• Energy management: Learn how to manage your energy like a strategist to stand out from your competitors, because depending on your state of fatigue, your manoeuvres are more or less fast as in reality.
• The one-minute engine: The position of your boat is now calculated every minute!
JOIN THE VIRTUAL REGATTA COMMUNITY!
Virtual Regatta is the biggest sailing community in the world and counts more than 1 million active e-skippers.
Virtual Regatta is an official partner of the FFVoile, the World Sailing Federation (World Sailing) and the Olympic Games with whom Virtual Regatta co-organizes all existing official eSailing events. Sail with the best !
Virtual Regatta Offshore is the official sailing simulation game of the biggest sailing races: Vendée Globe, Route du Rhum, Transat Jacques Vabre, Solitaire Le Figaro, and the Olympic Virtual Series. Take the helm of your boat and compete with the biggest names in offshore racing in Virtual Regatta!
HOW TO PLAY VIRTUAL REGATTA OFFSHORE ?
• Give your boat a name.
• Start at the same time as the real skippers on your virtual boat.
• Use the real weather as a tactician.
• Adapt your sails to the weather conditions.
• Adjust your course according to the weather conditions.
• Follow your boat on your mobile or tablet.
• Track the position of other competitors.
• Plan a course change.
VIRTUAL REGATTA OFFSHORE VIP MEMBERSHIP
• The VIP membership is available for a period of 3, 6 or 12 months (automatically renewable).
• The VIP membership gives access to bonus features of the game.
• The payment will be debited from the iTunes account when the purchase is confirmed.
• Subscription renews automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• The account will be billed for the renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, and identifies the cost of the renewal.
• Subscriptions can be managed by the user and automatic renewal can be disabled by accessing the user's account settings after purchase.
TERMS OF USE
https://click.virtualregatta.com/?li=4952
PRIVACY POLICY https://static.virtualregatta.com/ressources/PrivacyPolicyVRApps.htm?v=201807• If the subscription is cancelled, the package will still be available until the end of the paid period
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Virtual Regatta Offshore is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st October 2025
Recent improvements include:
A new update is available: 7.1.5
Here’s what’s new:
- A more readable chat with larger text.
- A new message button directly on players’ profiles.
As always, several fixes and improvements to make your experience even smoother.
Update your game now and get ready: the TRANSAT CAFÉ L’OR sets sail in just a few days!
Download & Availability
Virtual Regatta Offshore is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Virtual Regatta Offshore 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 will teach you or remind you how big the ocean is and the winds can be really nasty.
The app unfortunately has a few bugs in it. Purchases often fail, and now Im nervous to buy anything because Apple is denying refunds.
Overalll its great, only changes Id like are; variations in weather map, more detailed description of rules of course, more info in general concerning events within the game and real events would be interesting. Offshore racing isnt easy to keep up with in general this is a good platform to educate us on it. But, this is more of a wish list than anything being wrong Challenging Interesting game, its literally the only game we play. Be ready to consistently check status of your boat throughout the day/days to make course adjustments. But it only takes a second to update so isnt difficult to maintain, best to allow notifications especially at first, in case go wrong, Id almost like more complexity concerning weather/sea conditions, however that might make it too much to keep up with and would make learning curve at beginning possibly a bit much, as is lots of people contributing to each race which is good.
Les options gratuites sont de plus en plus maigres !! Ca devient ridicule. Dommage car le jeu est bien conu !! Pour avoir une chance de figurer dans le top classement il faut payer toutes les options, et il faut aussi du talent. Le talent ne suffit pas. Je pense que le modle conomique doit tre trs rentable. Mais attention : chercher trop de rentabilit peut tuer la rentabilit.
Plz make easier to play this and inshore on mac.
We like the concept of this game, however, its very much pay to win, and has a hard time keeping up with demand. We started the fastnet with a full pack, but when it really mattered, we kept getting booted out of the game, so we couldnt tack or change sails sometimes until hours later, after we ran aground, or sailed many miles off course. More frustration than the game is worth.
Game continues to crash not allowing us to enter and change course. Seems like it only caters to paying customers and the developers close friends. We would not put real money into this game until the developer cares enough to fix bugs, and this developer does not give to squirts. Its fine if they want to give paying customers an advantage, but if youre going to do that then dont offer free play! Waste of time.
We made the mistake of paying these people for an annual VIP subscription. Not only is the game glitchy but the so called Priority support is non-existent. Dont make the same mistake we did and stick to free.
It would be perfect if it wasnt for the annoying ads and constant prompts to buy credits.
We would understand having a layout similar to supremacy 1914 but in our limited knowledge of playing this cash grab why wouldnt we be able to buy boats to use in any race? We think rather than having to pay real money for upgraded before the race we would rather enjoy being able to get better boats to use in the races to come.
VR has raised prices and severely reduced rewards for finishing races with high rankings. While the features are excellent having system crashes that last 3 hours are unacceptable.
The game is fine. Ive been playing for over 5 years now. (Mainly because we now live in Texas and miss sailing.) Why do we max out on level 14.
Love this game. The real time format is authentic and addictive. We are continuously trying to beat our children and best our own positions from past races. We love that you have to use actual sailing skills. A winner.
Love the game and have been playing for a couple years. Just completed the last update and can no longer load in. It prompts us with Caution: Reload the game. We have re-downloaded the app and still nothing.
It keeps telling us to reset the game.
Error message keeps coming up, saying reload the game. No longer be able to play at all.
We have been trying to unsubscribe from their relentless emails for weeks no response no accountability.
Ever since the update on May 4th or 5th, there has been some problems with the route forecast. The points that say hours 1,2,3,4,5 and so on disappear and reappear and give an overall choppy feeling. Also, we have had some trouble with app stability. The app will close after maybe 5-7 minutes after a series of choppy spasms. These occur when we zoom out and scroll around the map. We really love this app and would love for these problems to be fixed.
Turned it on to try it out, havent got a clue. No help, no steering, no idea. 3d is cool.
Game restarts every couple minutes. Cant be fun if you cant play it.
App wont load!! Still wont load.
We have the VIP thing which is really only helpful for planning more than one day ahead. But to buy a full pack anymore is out of the question. Used to be $8 for short races, up to $20 for long ones. Now theyve doubled those prices. So no more decent finishes. Youre stuck in the middle of the pack at best with basic sails. Not much fun anymore.
The only thing we dont like about it is it kicks us out a lot.
We have played this game for about a year. If you're into sailing it's very entertaining. We have also met a great community of other players from across the globe. Unfortunately a few weeks ago the game was updated and now it shows long ads when loading a race. The ads cannot be skipped. That ruins the experience when you are in multiple races at the same time, which is often the case. Please go back to the previous model where you can play for free and pay to get more options. We're fine with having zero chances of winning a stage. We just want to "sail" for weeks and have fun in the process.
New adds pop up that you have difficulty getting out of as you try to manage your boats in the different races. It also appears to zap a lot of battery power from the phone as well. The basics of virtual regatta have been fun but we will need to give up using this app after many years if fun play! ;(.
There is an overall lack of resources for this game from the moment you first play it. The tutorial is bare bones and doesnt really teach you anything about how to play, navigate, use certain features, etc. You cant even get player support without paying, and why would you? The developers don't give the slightest appearance of being player friendly or try to help out in even the simplest of ways. You end up having to search and comb the internet for resources just to learn how to play the game and operate the interface, but most of the information is located on websites or message boards that are extremely out of date or no longer maintained. Even though its not much better, there are more resources available for the inshore version of the game, and it is less complex. For a game that seems to want to make its mark on a more global scale, there needs to be a much higher priority placed on player support and generating a useful info base/community for players to interact and learn. More effort needs to be put into the game, especially if the ultimate goal is to get players to pay for the subscription service. Until then, theres no way this game is worth spending any money on, and itll be relegated to a time killer.
Good game, Im just a little bit annoyed by the differences in the shorelines at different zoom level which regularly get us stranded You are grounded!. Otherwise we enjoy the races. What explains our two-star rating is that this app is currently storing a whopping 3.48 GB (!!!!!!!!) of data on our phone. We fixed this twice already by scraping the app and reinstalling. We will not do it again. Please update with a fix or lose a player.
When the Skipper's away, the brain can still play.
Your way to steer it be cool if you could see your boat turning and the boom swinging around. The game does get pretty boring after a while. We think you should be able to choose what kind of say about you have like a Hobie cat, pixel, 4-20, Feva, Optimus, laser, bic and more.
No matter what you write for support question, you keep getting responses they are awaiting a response until they close ticket no matter how many times you respond. This includes now trying to cancel VIP membership. Game is pretty good.
Very buggy, erratic updating, poor wind modeling and cryptic point and ranking system. And too many graphics where theyre not needed, like when the app starts, which uses huge amounts of data and slows down the app. Extremely frustrating app but also very addictive and compelling.
Rarely accurate in its representation of your position in relation to other sailors in 2D view until you select that opponents boat. Cant see land or marker buoys in the 3D view. Once you realize this you learn to close and reopen the app rather than just stay online and believe what you are seeing. We hope we stick with the game after the initial trial and error phase. Could use more races simultaneously to keep us interested.
Waypoints dont work properly. If you program in waypoints to go around an island, you should not run aground. Plus, in the most recent race, the game showed us racing for an hour after passing an island. Then it had a connection error. When we came back into the race it said we were aground. Ive asked the support desk return our credits, but no reply. The game refresh rate is not fast enough.
A bad sign to be sure, so we removed this game. If you are going to make a game free it would be nice if we could actually see it before you start the ads for upgrades.
We are 61 years old, all our life we have liked sailing and with this game we have entertained ourselves in the absence of the true sea and its sails in the wind, we like its details and as a good fan we would like you to continue until we make this game the greatest of the history, such as having a version where we can go to any port in real time, with views of the ports and cities where they are, something like a flight simulator but of the sea and its beauties ……. Dreams? Maybe, but think about it.
Love this game. Ive never paid a penny, and thoroughly enjoy it. Im less competitive in many of the races as it takes us a LONG time to max out a boats features, but if you play your cards right, you can be competitive in the big ones. Ive met a lot of people around the world, all sailors in one way or another. Ive never played a mobile game that actually connected us with other people, and people with the same passion no less! Fun game, great people, 5 out of 5.
Its been 2 years since we played. A lot of good improvements. Like the navigation help. We thought we would be way behind in relearning but was surprised we could just pick up again. Good job.
Our mom and we love the Vende Globe, so we cant stop playing! Well, heres something crazy, we kept on begging at mom to get it for us, she kept on saying no, but finally, she got and its totally worth the time and…OFFICIALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It would be REALLY fun if you could add some non-identified objects so that if your boat crashes into one of them, you have to do repairs.
We love to sail, but since we became disabled we dont get out so often and cant single hand. Now we can still race.
As a sailboat racer IRL, we can only say that this app is the greatest offshore sailboat racing app ever. It is so much fun and the developers do there best to give us a good amount of races to participate in. We are now racing around the world. WHAT A RUSH! This is a great app! FIVE STARS.
Wonderful concept – access to compete against pros. Wish the fun and helpful features werent so expensive, but Im having plenty of fun with the free version. A number of programming bugs to be worked out, but very impressive. Looking forward to seeing how this game develops over the next few years.
Its a great game that has all the adjustments and consideration of variables one would have on the ocean.
Horrible! The support is non existent. Many features are not functioning because there are too many players. The potential is there for a great game but they cannot deliver.
Finally a real time sailing game. Im hooked. It was making our iPad crash but we were just out of memory. Works great now! We find the game better if you have weather4VR. Once you master that your in good shape. We also equip our boat w all the bells and whistles. Its hard to compete otherwise. Happy sailing to all.
There is no quick manual … We never pay for any of this and so we expect to be beaten by faster boats. Nevertheless, rudimentary tools should be available, like charting any waypoint we want and have the autopilot on. We want to force a plotted course and not have the system zig zag at it own if we dont want that. Also, why cant we see the position of other boats with their tracks.
This app made us buy a old Imoca 60.
Great game but it appears a bit heavy performance wise and locks up occasionally on slightly older devises.
We love the ability to set up the boat and then to race against others to all of these destinations. We wonder how it would be to also show the currents as well.
Started this game a little under an hour ago. Everything so far has been good other than receiving a few network errors that have since gone away.
The game is ok but we would like to see the ability to steer from the helm 1st person style and it would be nice if land was rendered into the first person as well. Additionally it would be awesome to see freshwater and food rationing in play. There could even be supply ship checkpoints that could be established along race routes to make it more interesting. Also if harbors and 1st person control were implemented then sailors could literally race to the finish line.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 7.1.5
- Size: 293.03 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Virtual Regatta
Last updated: 21st October 2025 | Genre: Sports, Simulation | Developer: Virtual Regatta