Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 Reviews

For the first 2 hours I admit I was cursing the heck out of this game lol. I was having a lot of graphical & performance issues and having a 3080TI I just shouldn't be. Anyway I flipped DX12 off and used DX11 and OMG it ran and looked 1000 times better. NOW I'm having fun :) Very relaxing to play and I'm enjoying the surprises along the way. I won't spoil what that means, but I'm liking what the game has to offer and most likely will be purchasing the DLC add ons.

I wish there was a sorta like button, I LOVED the game, have logged a ton of hours, and yes there are TONS of bugs, BUT its very addictive for some reason, BUT after the last fishing boat update, I can no longer play the game, it lags ALL the time now, Items just float in the air and don't fall, the game crashes, its horrible, they released a patch today and I was hoping all the issues would be resolved and unfortunately no cigar.. so I can no longer play the game.. and ill have to wait even longer in hopes it gets fixed at some point so I can play again.. Just aggravating i bought the DLC and cant even enjoy it or use it or get a refund..

so really good game if u enjoy building and destruction only one bad thing is that u have to buy plus packs for diffrent clases of ships

Momentarily barely unplayable due to fatal errors left and right, even if you save after every action you do. Sending out zip files for the devs to look at no response. Ever since the new dlc it has been happening. Ofcourse sometimes in the past the game had issues. Having the latest drivers, having a decent rig does not help so far.

This review is based mostly on the Online Co-op feature as it was the main reason for me to buy this game and play it with a friend. TL;DR at end. While the game itself is advertised with Online Co-op, the execution of that feature is very terrible in my opinion. Ever since I bought the game some years ago, Co-op has been plagued by annoying bugs that evolve into worse ones the more time passes. Back then the "harmless" bugs mostly consisted of some visual freakouts. With time functionale bugs appeared, like broken down items teleporting into a pile of scrap in an unreachable, barely visible spot at the horizon. While these seem to be fixed as they haven't appeared to me for a longer time, newer, worse, bugs followed. Sound glitches where a tool someone else used kept its sound active on another player until the player left the session. This one might be fixed but its hard to tell due to inconsistent occurence and patch communication, that I will come back to later, having reached a terrible low for players. The currently biggest bug is a failing synchronization in Multiplayer games. While the host gets to see everything normal, people joining will be left with almost every item, that has already been removed, visually being back and blocking features. The "ghost parts" are not only irritating players, that joined, on figuring out what has already been done but also block tools from interacting with real objects behind them, blocking the grapple hook and messing up the box throw mechanic. I don't know the cause of this problem but I believe it started occurring the same time, that hosting a Multiplayer game suddenly swaps to a ~0.1% loading speed per progress bar refresh after reaching ~75% of the file being loaded. One might consider to notify the devs and wait for them to release a patch but this has two problems: 1. I've seen the problem run around every new comment section of news of this game and it likely is already spread in the discussion area. 2. The patchnotes have turned fully kryptic on letting the user know what has been done. It started with some named "solved" problems and "fixed problems based on users" but the latest news basically just states "fixes have been done". Players are left guessing if problems, that occurred to them, are solved at this point and only get a message that makes it look like things have been done. All in all, I cannot recommend this game for anyone who aims to mainly play it in Multiplayer due to its terrible conditions and lack of communication from the news. While I'd usually think about recommending games to player after terrible bugs have been fixed, this game clearly shows a path of every fixed bug being replaced by an even worse shortly after. Multiplayer players do not seem to win with this game. TL;DR: Multiplayer bugs get replaced by worse with every fix and the game feels terrible when joining into a started session. Communication via game news make it look like things are getting done but what actually has been done has barely to no mention anymore. Do not buy if Multiplayer is an important feature for you.

This stupid game takes at least 10 minutes to start up. From what little I actually got to play while the game worked for all of an hour and a half it would be fun if the game could ran properly.

It's not as organic as it looks. I was hoping for something closer to Hardspace: Shipbreaker but this is more akin to disassembling the car you're working on in Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 without any of the other steps available. It's a serviceable "do task, get dopamine" game if you like really structured demolition, but I think you can get more bang for your buck elsewhere.

The game doesn’t sync properly. I bought it specifically to play with my friend, but whenever he hosts the game, I keep glitching through areas that I demolished on my end but are still visible for me. This syncing issue has been known for months, yet the developers don’t seem to address it. It’s a real shame, because the game has great potential otherwise.

As you can see I have a few hours in this game. I enjoyed it but with all the DLCs it has become cumbersome and slow with lots of bugs that really should not exist at this point. The rather random explosive destructions also mean that an achievement is basically undoable and you can have spent hours on a ship and have to start all over again.

Having played it since day one - don't buy. It has been extremely buggy two years. Not being able to use your tools for months at a time, not beeing able to hit with the hammer, not being able to pick stuff up, extreme lags, crashing on save and on crane use - we had everything. The developer seems to have absolutely no QA and they are not playtesting their updates. Almost every update breaks some significant part of the game, and then it takes a while to fix it. Instead of relaxing, this piece of something becomes unplayable and infuriating for weeks or even months. [hr][/hr] [b]If you want it - wait for a BIG sale, or just wait for them to be done with DLCs and patches.[/b] Going a step further - do not buy any games from Games Incubator, they seem to care neither about the quality of their games nor about the playerbase, just about pumping out new games and dlcs