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Professional Ship Simulator
Take the helm in this realistic, large-scale maritime simulation. Command your fleet from agile rescue vessels to massive LNG tankers and perform precise maneuvers in challenging conditions. Navigate a living open world where weather, traffic, and every wave shape your career.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-09-25.
“I would be careful of the reviews, It is always something I look at when buying a game but these reviews are unequivocally unfair to the fresh Early access release. The demo was just that... a demo. Demo: graphics - Average and a little dated, no underwater graphics, average…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“I’m a senior navigational officer with real experience at sea. The game is nice and, in many ways, quite close to real life, but I noticed a few issues. First, the ECDIS seems to have a bug. Every time I try to move around or zoom the chart, it starts bugging out and becomes…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“I really wanted to be impressed by Professional Ship Simulator, but at the moment I’m pretty mixed on it. played the Demo in hopes of improvement upon release but unfortunately not :( It’s not necessarily bad, it just feels like it needs to cook for WAY longer. The whole…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update 1 | Public Beta starts today!
💰 Career & Mission Balancing 📊 Rebalanced Credit rewards across Career levels based on the first gameplay statistics and player feedback. 📍 Ferry, Pilot, Inspection, Repair and Tourist missions now aw
Patch 1 | Now available for everyone on the Default branch!
Our first major patch is now available for everyone! Since launch, we’ve been working through your reports and focused this first patch especially on stability, nautical chart loading and gameplay iss
Patch 1 | Public Beta starts today!
This afternoon, we’re making Early Access Patch 1 available on a Public Beta branch before moving it to the main branch after successful testing. The patch focuses on some of the most important issues
🚢 The Wait Is Over – Professional Ship Simulator Is Now in Early Access!
After a long journey of development and countless hours of work, Professional Ship Simulator is now available in Early Access on Steam! Many of you have been waiting for this moment for a long time an
🚢 PSS Launches Tomorrow – Your Guide to Getting Started
🚢 The wait is almost over! Professional Ship Simulator launches tomorrow! Many aspects of the simulator can be adjusted in the settings, including wave height, weather and more. Prefer a more relaxed
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Naval · Simulation · Realistic · Open World · Physics · Moddable · Exploration · Sailing · Relaxing · Transportation · Sandbox (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian * |
| Achievements | 77 |
| Official site | https://nauticxp.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 11 Home Processor: Intel Core i5-12500H (or similar) Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1080 TI or similar (min. 8GB VRAM) DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 16 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card