# Port City: Ship Simulator — user reviews > 395 indexed App Store user reviews of Port City by Pixel Federation Games, rated 4.70/5 from 13,953 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/port-city-ship-simulator/id1553443573/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/port-city-ship-simulator/id1553443573.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 11,178 · 4★ 1,919 · 3★ 598 · 2★ 115 · 1★ 143 ## What do users think of Port City? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and enjoyable gameplay - 👍 Great graphics and visuals - 💡 Interesting ship and port management concept **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches - ⏱️ Overly long wait times for tasks - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 🤔 Misleading advertising **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to progress past certain levels due to glitches - Ads that force the App Store to open - Ships and buildings clipping through environment **Most requested features** - Add more regions and ship types - Improve navigation between ports - Reduce wait times for tasks - Provide offline gameplay option ## Newest reviews (12 of 395) ### 4/5 — q *2026-05-13, version 3.18.0* 怎么没有中文 ### 3/5 — Not sure how it works *2026-05-11, version 3.18.0* I am trying to build buildings but there’s a requirement looks like a golden ring of sure how to get it ### 2/5 — Grafik schön, aber… *2026-04-14* Die Spiel Balance ist unglaublich schlecht. Alles ist darauf ausgelegt das der Spieler möglichst viel kauft um dann festzustellen dass er trotzdem nicht weiter kommt. Paywall zu aggressiv, Spielfortschritt zu langwierig und alles braucht unglaublich lange. Wie gesagt ein massives Balance Problem. Ich würde dieses Spiel keinem weiterempfehlen es sei denn er mag nett animierte Schiffe und verschwendet gern seine Zeit bei dem Versuch von Level 15-30 zu kommen. In der Hoffnung dass dann die Story weiter geht… **Developer response:** Hallo! Vielen Dank für dein Feedback zu unserem Spiel. Es tut uns leid, dass du mit der Spielbalance und dem Fortschritt unzufrieden bist. Wir nehmen deine Anmerkungen sehr ernst und teilen sie mit dem Team, um das Spielerlebnis weiter zu verbessern. Liebe Grüße, Lukas ### 4/5 — Ran out of levels *2026-02-19, version 3.15.0* A slow paced game. Ideal for those with limited time to play. Good side levels throughout, though annoying that it stopped at level699 ### 3/5 — game crashes and commercials kick players out of game. *2025-12-30, version 3.13.0* Game crashes repeatedly when watching commercials or commercials kicks player out of game. ### 3/5 — Fun game? But finished it quickly *2025-12-19, version 3.13.0* Fun game to play but finished it already or at least until region 10 opens. And the competitions are rigged? I was in 2nd place then in a few seconds I was in 7th? Do not waste your money until game is fixed. Not fair play. ### 3/5 — Needs an update *2025-11-21, version 3.13.0* The game is good, don’t get me wrong, but I wish they focused on it as much as they do as the train station games. ### 4/5 — commercials that kick you out of game *2025-10-29, version 3.12.0* The credit karma commercial is by far the most annoying one this game gas! 1 minute ling commercial that kick player out of the game! Sometime when you let it plat for a while it doesn’t allow you to return to game forcing player to x out of the game and reinstall app. ### 4/5 — Fun game? But finished it quickly *2025-10-01, version 3.12.0* Fun game to play but finished it already or at least until region 10 opens. ### 3/5 — Fun but *2025-08-24, version 3.11.0* The game is fun, it keeps me entertained but the balancing issues are significantly higher than they should be. In other words, common ship parts are almost impossible to come by in enough quantities to upgrade ships, but I have over a thousand rare parts, couple dozen epic parts, and like 10 legendary parts. I wish we could buy ship parts with coins we earn through jobs and I wish ships weren’t region locked. The game has potential to be 5 stars, but I’m stuck with ships needing upgrades and no parts and I refuse to spend real world money on a game that has so many opportunities to watch ads. ### 3/5 — Leider bei Level 9 zu Ende *2025-08-20* Temu Werbung ist sehr nervig. Schön gedacht, durch Werbung kaputt gemacht. **Developer response:** Ahoi Kapitän! Ja, das erledigen einiger Jobs ist eine ziemlich schnelle Aktion, während das erledigen einiger anderer viel länger dauert. In der Zwischenzeit können Sie in Ihrem Hafen verschiedene Materialien produzieren oder deine Gebäude verbessern! Für weitere Tipps & Tricks wenden Sie sich gerne an unseren Support :) - Alz, CM ### 3/5 — Already deleted this game. Trash no update. *2025-08-13, version 3.11.0* why not update for more than a year? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Needs updating *2026-07-10, version 3.19.0* Fun game to play but finished it already or at least until region 10 opens. Stuck at level 699. ### 1/5 — Monotonous *2026-06-15, version 3.18.0* No variety, TOO MANY ADS! ### 1/5 — Are you fr? *2026-06-02, version 3.18.0* Everything starts of as 30s travel time sending resources, then it randomly goes to 30m for the exact same cargo weights, but hey they give you a temporary “agent” you have to watch a vid for or grind a month to get new, just money hungry for ad revenue game, I doubt they’ll let me post this so devs seeing sort it out ### 1/5 — BRO IT SUCKZ *2026-05-22, version 3.18.0* Bro I got stuck while I need coal but I cannot ship boats! Terrible game like anyone does ### 1/5 — 中文版呢？ *2026-02-04, version 3.14.0* No chinese is not goodgame ### 1/5 — Game constantly crashes *2026-01-21, version 3.14.0* The game is quite erratic for me now where switching between cities is way more hit or miss than it used to be so that part is becoming more and more unreliable as the days go on, however, the even bigger issue comes when trying watch ads where the game crashes at least 50% of the time and the past few days that number is likely in the 70% or more area. Also, some ads are almost impossible to close out where clicking on the X auto opens websites sometimes or it is a constant battle trying to hit the exact right spot with the exact right amount of force to close out the ad. Why are some ads so difficult to close? It seems like tricky & deceptive marketing efforts which should be frowned upon. If these issues are addressed, I would happily raise my rating and if not, the game is becoming close to unplayable. ### 1/5 — Screen your advertisers. *2026-01-19, version 3.14.0* These ads are getting ridiculous, you have to spend 80% of your game play watching ads that very often crash the game without reward. It’s too much. Do not support the advertisement for Temu. It is disingenuous and leaves you unable to return to game without a restart. Don’t be complicit with this dishonest company. Will not play any more in response. ### 1/5 — seaport 2.0 w too many commercials! *2025-08-05, version 3.10.1* This game is essentially seaport 2.0 with all the pay blocks they wanted for the original seaport game. 1-2 minute long commercial instead of 30 seconds plus some of these commercial forces player to exit out of game and redirects you to app screen! then not even get the reward! SUPER SKETCHY! The algorithm is fixed as well to ensure player get worse rated ship boxes (grey or blue) even when the lens stops far closer to a purple or yellow ship box! EVEN MORE SKETCHY! Players tools quantity purchased with seasonal coin disappear when player logs into game again so make sure you screen shot your Quantity before exit the game out. No option to purchase ship of choice which allows game designer to fix game so player will spend more money. No option to delete ships of. choice bc player must have at least one ship which is just annoying. limited amount of captains makes game boring unless you spend money to lease a captain bc pixel federation has gotten so greedy they won’t let player even own captains. Trash …. played for a couple of days and got tired. ### 1/5 — 업데이트 중간에 끊겨서 더이상 진전안돼 *2025-06-13* 업데이트 안된다 **Developer response:** ㅅㅂㄹㄴㅅㅂㄹㄴ Hello! Thank you so much for your feedback on Port City. We truly appreciate hearing from our players. For further assistance, please visit our [support page](https://portal.pixelfederation.com/en/portcity/support) or join our [forum](https://forum.pixelfederation.com/portcity/). Best regards, Lukas ### 1/5 — Developers abandoned game *2025-05-19, version 3.9.0* This was a good game for a while, but there haven’t been any new regions added in at least a year. The events just keep repeating. How many times do we need to update the Suez Canal? I stopped doing the prestige points tasks because you need to spend real, big bucks to get decent parts. There’s only so long that you can upgrade ships and expand the warehouse before wondering why you bother. Add some developers and improve the game. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Hope the devs can see this *2026-08-05, version 3.19.1* Hello, could the official add Chinese language support to the game? ### 5/5 — Go *2026-05-03, version 3.18.0* Good game ### 5/5 — Really fun *2026-04-29, version 3.18.0* This game is very fun, but if you’re looking for realistic gameplay this is not it. The boats do not actually doc and kind of just Rome around the map. Also there are so many things that take 1 hour to complete. ### 5/5 — GOAT *2026-03-27, version 3.17.0* This game is awesome I can’t get my eyes of it but there is one problem it can be slow to get materials but other wise it’s an awesome game I recommend downloading it NOTE TO OWNER: keep making games like this 😀😀😀😀😀 ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-03-16, version 3.17.0* Really realistic and fun! Models of ships and good and not glitchy, best cargo ship game 10000/10 ### 5/5 — Muito bom *2026-01-28* Ótimo jogo **Developer response:** Olá! Muito obrigado pelo seu comentário! Estamos felizes que esteja gostando do jogo e esperamos que continue se divertindo explorando Port City. 🚢 Boa sorte nas suas jornadas! Abraços, Michaela ### 5/5 — Nice game but… *2026-01-22, version 3.14.0* When I downloaded the game the I am clicking on stuff like settings not working pls fix this or I will report this app ### 5/5 — 簡単 *2026-01-17* 簡単で日本語対応 **Developer response:** こんにちは！ゲームを遊んでいただきありがとうございます。シンプルで日本語対応でお楽しみいただけて嬉しいです！これからも素敵な時間を過ごしていただけますように。 Marek ### 5/5 — You need to add something *2025-11-23, version 3.13.0* Why don’t you add mini games like parking the Ship, avoid icebergs or a delivery you can drive the ship and stuff i’m not sure if this will Make your ratings more less ### 5/5 — Good but *2025-09-22, version 3.12.0* I like the game but takes to long to open other cities. Love play for free but want to move forward --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*