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Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial

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72%Game Brain Score
story, gameplay
stability, grinding
72% User Score Based on 575 reviews

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Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial is a single player survival management game. It was developed by CreativeForge Games and was released on March 31, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

[, , , ,Take control of the aircraft carrier, its crew, officers and planes during WW2. Give an example of military prowess by choosing the right equipment, crew, and escort for the mission. Remember that your success will depend greatly on your flexibility in managing the available fleet resources. , , ,Assign a crew and choose what your officers should focus on. Your ship has many stations to ma…

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72%
Audience ScoreBased on 575 reviews
story20 positive mentions
stability11 negative mentions
  • Unique and engaging WW2 aircraft carrier management and tactical simulation with detailed crew and fleet controls.
  • Detailed upgrade systems for crew, aircraft squadrons, ship equipment and escorts, allowing strategic depth and customization.
  • Immersive carrier mechanics like deck management, damage control, mission planning and resource management create tense and rewarding gameplay.
  • Free prologue/demo provides good introduction with multiple missions, overall solid gameplay loop with satisfying strategic choices.
  • Well designed graphics with detailed ship cutaway views, atmospheric sounds and satisfying animations for airstrikes and operations.
  • Steep learning curve and overly complicated micro-management initially overwhelming without a clear step-by-step tutorial or pause feature.
  • Damage control mechanics often frustrating, tedious micromanagement needed, fires and floods spread too fast and can cause unpredictable failures.
  • UI and camera controls are clunky and unintuitive, difficult to navigate ship compartments and manage air operations efficiently.
  • Various bugs and glitches including camera crash, stuck aircraft, game freezes and mission blocking issues cause frustration.
  • Limited content in prologue, repetitive gameplay, lacking variety in missions and carrier operations and incomplete features in current build.
  • Enemy attacks can occur at night when player cannot launch planes, poor balance in defensive timing and some illogical mechanics like having to assign officers to enable simple functions.
  • story
    209 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story in the game is presented through a prologue demo consisting of two missions that provide a solid but limited introduction to carrier warfare management. While the missions offer an engaging strategic experience with progressive difficulty, players find the narrative execution lacking in variety, depth, and in-mission feedback, often leading to a sense of repetitiveness and frustration due to unclear objectives and insufficient tutorial guidance. Overall, the story framework is promising but would benefit greatly from more mission diversity, enhanced narrative elements, and better player orientation.

    • “I just now completed the first mission in the demo, I absolutely recommend this game.”
    • “It can be hard to figure out how to do basic things like clear a crashed plane off the flight deck (why won't the damage control team go fix it?) or launch a strike mission (wait, I have to have who standing where, with what switches?), but once you figure these things out the game becomes immensely enjoyable.”
    • “The missions presented in the prologue are certainly good to whet our whistles.”
    • “The "tutorial" part of the game does nothing of the sort; no introduction to how to manage the ship or get it underway before you are dropped into a mission and expected to figure out what needs doing by yourself.”
    • “Mission debriefings are not clear at all and the maps don't offer much strategic view like plane missions unless the mouse is hovered over each one of them.”
    • “The game lacks an in-mission save system; if you need to leave after an hour of gameplay but the mission isn't completed, you'll have to start the mission all over again.”
  • gameplay
    100 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay presents a solid and engaging core mechanic with strategic depth, especially appealing to management and simulator fans, but it is hindered by a steep learning curve, lack of effective tutorials, and clunky controls. Many users find the mechanics promising yet frustrating due to bugs, poor UI, and unpolished animations, though once mastered, it can be quite enjoyable. Overall, it shows good potential but needs significant refinement and better onboarding to reach its full appeal.

    • “Takes a little getting used to, but once you get the gameplay down, it's a blast!”
    • “Once you get the hang of the basic mechanics and things you need to do to operate the carrier, it's lots of fun.”
    • “The existing gameplay framework is solid and enjoyable but I expect a more polished product on release.”
    • “Gameplay has a learning curve that either needs to be simplified or there needs to be an actual tutorial mission.”
    • “I couldn't play it for long; my main problem is getting started. The 'help' menu is not good, it's just a series of videos that take me out of gameplay. Too many things to do and it's really hard to get into the game. A functioning tutorial saying 'hey this place is where you set up planes' (instead of a video) might be good. I can't recommend the game because it has a lot of options and throws all of them in your face.”
    • “The gameplay is constantly having to fix random fires throughout the ship. Half the time, it's night so you can't do anything. If an enemy fleet has a battleship or escort carrier, it's pretty much impossible to launch a strike without killing everyone.”
  • graphics
    57 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's graphics receive mixed feedback, with many praising the detailed carrier visuals and solid artwork for a small development team, while others find the overall visual polish lacking or outdated compared to modern standards. Some users report performance issues like lag and occasional bugs, but most agree the graphics adequately support the gameplay without detracting from the experience. As a pre-alpha/demo, improvements are anticipated in future releases.

    • “Great prologue, good graphics and great game mechanics.”
    • “The visuals inside the carrier are great, lots of detail.”
    • “The graphics in the game are extremely nice and you can see that the makers cared about making the game.”
    • “I might have recommended the game if at least the cinematic replays of the battle were even just a little better than 1990's graphics.”
    • “The game itself is very laggy even on the lowest graphic settings, the screen froze as soon as I entered the first tutorial mission so never got to play it.”
    • “The presentation doesn't even warrant the 6GB load as graphics are bad.”
  • stability
    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent crashes, bugs, and soft-lock glitches that disrupt gameplay and require restarts. While some demos are bug-free, the overall experience is marred by technical problems and a buggy, unintuitive UI.

    • “Fun and bug-free demo.”
    • “The game itself is a technical nightmare, marred by glitches, crashes, and gameplay-breaking bugs.”
    • “It sounds fun but I can't play it; every time I try to play the tutorial it takes a long time to load, then when I get in the game freezes and I have to restart my whole computer.”
    • “There are a few little buggy things that make this seem like an alpha - difficult to manage counters on the map, difficult to manage aircraft on the deck, and it takes hours to push a plane off the deck, which is done in a very counter-intuitive way.”
  • grinding
    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is widely seen as tedious and frustrating due to repetitive clicking, micromanagement, and slow, unengaging animations. Tasks like damage control and crew management require excessive manual input, breaking the flow and diminishing enjoyment despite the game's underlying potential.

    • “I so much want to say I love this game because it has so much potential to be great, but tedious, stupid animations like resetting everything after every fighter wing moves... there is no flow in how things are done, which gets really frustrating especially since you often are pushed for time. With a lot of work done in working flow and overall AI performance, it could be a great game.”
    • “It has potential; and yet it has to be one of the most tedious, frustrating, needlessly micromanaged games out there.”
    • “Actually getting your crews to repair anything requires a tedious amount of clicking as well.”
  • optimization
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game runs smoothly with no noticeable bugs, but its optimization is hindered by tedious animations and a lack of flow that can disrupt the gameplay, especially under time pressure. Improved working flow and AI performance could greatly enhance the overall experience.

    • “Runs smoothly with no bugs I noticed.”
    • “A good game that just needs a bit of optimization; besides that, it's a great game.”
    • “With a lot of work done in workflow and overall AI performance, it could be a great game.”
  • atmosphere
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's atmosphere is tense and engaging, keeping players alert, but it is undermined by basic graphics in combat cut-scenes and minimal audio design. Additionally, some gameplay elements evoke a mobile game feel, which detracts from the immersive war simulation experience.

    • “Tense atmosphere keeps the player on their toes.”
    • “For all that is good, the game trips up on the arrester cable; combat cut-scenes (possibly unfinished) are graphically basic. For a war sim, the audio is basic and lacks atmosphere.”
    • “It spoils the atmosphere of the game completely.”
  • monetization
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users appreciate the availability of a free demo or prologue, which builds trust and reduces the need for piracy. However, there is skepticism about the game's value, with concerns that it may be a one-time cash grab rather than a well-developed experience. Overall, caution is advised before spending money.

    • “I wouldn't recommend wasting any money on this game since it's just going to be a one-and-done cash grab by the developers.”
  • humor
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor is generally perceived as ineffective, with some users finding the gameplay and overall presentation unintentionally dull rather than amusing.

  • replayability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers exceptionally high replayability, keeping players engaged and encouraging multiple playthroughs.

    • “Replay value through the roof!”
  • emotional
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users express frustration with technical issues, indicating that bugs are impacting their emotional connection to the game and causing hesitation to continue playing until these problems are resolved.

  • music
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music aspect is largely overshadowed by gameplay issues, as users note that tap dancing inputs often go unregistered, leading to frustrating, musical chairs-like movement of characters to activate perks. Overall, the music-related mechanics feel unresponsive and hinder smooth play.

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Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial is a survival management game.

Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 4 hours playing Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial.

Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial was released on March 31, 2021.

Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial was developed by CreativeForge Games.

Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its story but disliked it for its stability.

Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial is a single player game.

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