I think you basically have to give this game a thumbs up if it runs. If you're looking for a ship simulator that is at all realistic and runs on the PC this is pretty much it. If you're not looking for a ship simulator then don't buy this, no matter how cheap it is. You'll just be disappointed. It's old code, the interface is complicated, there are bugs (which may be actual bugs or just incompatibilities that have developed in the nearly ten years since its development), the graphics are way dated (obviously), but... it runs, it has very decent ship physics (I say this as someone who has handled large-ish vessels), a bunch of ships and ports, interactive controls that you can use in free-walk mode while maneuvering, and so it's a lot of fun for people who are looking for these things.

I had no problems running the game on the current build of windows 10. A couple of things to note: the water rendering on the menu screen is broken for me but it's fine once the game has loaded; UI elements don't scale so its difficult to run the game in higher screen resolutions, 1920x1080 seems like the sweet spot for me; the few crashes I've had were all in "walkthrough" mode, and required me to kill the process through task manager to control of the desktop back. I have not had it crash while in "orbit" or "helmsman" camera positions.

I think you basically have to give this game a thumbs up if it runs. If you're looking for a ship simulator that is at all realistic and runs on the PC this is pretty much it. If you're not looking for a ship simulator then don't buy this, no matter how cheap it is. You'll just be disappointed. It's old code, the interface is complicated, there are bugs (which may be actual bugs or just incompatibilities that have developed in the nearly ten years since its development), the graphics are way dated (obviously), but... it runs, it has very decent ship physics (I say this as someone who has handled large-ish vessels), a bunch of ships and ports, interactive controls that you can use in free-walk mode while maneuvering, and so it's a lot of fun for people who are looking for these things. I had no problems running the game on the current build of windows 10. A couple of things to note: the water rendering on the menu screen is broken for me but it's fine once the game has loaded; UI elements don't scale so its difficult to run the game in higher screen resolutions, 1920x1080 seems like the sweet spot for me; the few crashes I've had were all in "walkthrough" mode, and required me to kill the process through task manager to control of the desktop back. I have not had it crash while in "orbit" or "helmsman" camera positions.