ShipCrafter

ShipCrafter is a naval sandbox combat simulator in which you build ships, unlock parts and fight increasingly powerful opponents. In the campaign, you challenge adversaries and liberate Europe; in custom battles, you pit your own designs against one another and work toward efficient, original ships.

Build and tune ships

The editor displays a ship’s density and center of mass, so you can refine its design. A real-time buoyancy system accounts for weight, submerged volume and ocean waves, and adjustable ballasts let you build submarines. The game also simulates fluids, weather and day cycles, including changes in wave height and rain.

Damage is physics-based rather than tracked with health bars. Hits can reduce the performance of turrets and engines. You can control weapons manually or automatically, and visit your ship in first person.

Combat physics

Shell trajectories account for air pressure, changes in air density with altitude and the effect of speed on drag. Penetration depends on armor thickness, angle of impact, bounce probability, and shell speed and mass. Projectile speeds and distances are reduced to make combat faster; at real-world scale, a shell would take more than a minute to hit a target 20 km away.

Campaign and battles

The campaign contains more than 50 missions and supports co-op play for both the campaign and shipbuilding. In the custom battle editor, you can set the weather and time of day, and stage battles between bots.

A separate sandbox mode supports up to 10 players. You can enable or disable damage to fight naval battles or show your ships to other players.

Ships and creation tools

The game supports Steam Workshop, where you can share and download ships, including battleships, cruisers and submarines. It also officially supports modding. A raytracing renderer lets you create scenes by adjusting the sun’s orientation and adding fog, then generate screenshots.