Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation

Genre:

Simulation

Year:

1990

Developer:

Artech Studios

Publisher:

Three-Sixty Pacific

Perspective:

1st-person, 3rd-person

Theme:

History, Warfare, Submarine, Naval

Releases:

DOS (1990), Amiga (1991)

Also known as:

Das Boot is Missing

Submarines were quite popular theme in simulation games in the 90s. The central motive of this game is a submarine (surprise!), where you control a Nazi U-boat Type VII U-Boat, which was used around 1941. The name of the game is Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation, where Das Boot means literally "The Boat". The simulator is a classic, nothing exceptional, but nicely designed. Your goal is to fight against the allied submarines, shelter airstrikes from the enemies. You have 4 types of torpedoes: contact, acoustic, looping and magnetic. All orders you receive are encrypted to prevent access by enemies and you must crack them through the decoding mechanism known as Enigma.