There is the makings of a good game, hidden inside of this game.

It is generally an extremely good looking game, even for it's age and the sailing in/out of port, is an experience, a very cool experience... the first couple of times...

After this it becomes quite tedious and the micromanagement of your ships quickly becomes very tedious as well. I think I am on my 3rd or 4th attempt to play though this game and it simply just gets to non stop pause mode about half way through as you constantly have to to manually load/unload ships.

What is there is actually a pretty good, but what would have made it a great game would have been to take some notes from "Ports of Call" and made the management a bit more high level, to make the micromanagement optional.

This would make the stressful missions you get from your investor a fun stressor as well, instead of an exercise in futuility, trying to figure out which of your ships is actually going where and how much of what you got, because you are dealing with 20 ships nonstop docking/undocking orders.

it is a bit grindy but all steam achievments worked! It's chill background game in the spirit of "Ports of Call (Poc)" and a little bit of "Der Reeder".