# Sail For Gold Game — user reviews > 133 indexed App Store user reviews of Sail For Gold Game by BETOMORROW, rated 3.60/5 from 33 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sail-for-gold-game/id529714935/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sail-for-gold-game/id529714935.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 11 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Sail For Gold Game? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ⛵ Engaging sailing mechanics and physics - 🎨 Good graphics and visual quality - 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay - 📚 Educational for learning sailing basics - 🏆 Variety of boat classes to choose from - ⚖️ Balanced difficulty for casual and experienced sailors - 🎯 Smooth boat movement and feel **Cons** - 🎮 Poor steering controls and responsiveness - 📹 Erratic camera angles and swinging views - ⚖️ Inaccurate sailing rules implementation - 🤖 Unfair AI opponent behavior - 🏁 Very short race courses with limited options - ⛵ Always starting on port tack with committee boat interference - 🚫 No wind shadow or realistic wind mechanics - 📊 Oversimplified rule system (only port/starboard) - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues - 🎯 Difficult to see course marks and navigation arrows **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on startup or boat selection - Game freezes during races or at various stages - Crashes when two boats collide - Unresponsive menu selection - Crashes on certain boat classes - Game drops out partway through race - Incompatibility with older iPad/iPod models - Steering input has no consistent correlation to rudder movement - Incorrect penalty system (penalizes player but not AI) - Jib doesn't switch sides on some boats - Boats tack unrealistically (like cars, not keels) - Opponent can sail directly upwind - Opponent appears to sail faster and higher than player **Most requested features** - Course preview/map before race start - Ability to choose starting position and tack - Pre-start countdown sequence - Spinnaker/kite options for downwind sailing - More boat classes (29er, 49er, Toppers, RS 200, AC 72) - Longer and more varied race courses - Multiple opponents/fleet racing - Multiplayer mode - Adjustable difficulty levels - Wind direction and strength variation - Speed indicator/knot meter - Sail trim and sail choice mechanics - Customizable camera view - Boat customization options - Different locations/courses - Wind blocking mechanics for trailing boats - Proper foiling for certain boat classes - Longer legs between buoys - Free sail/practice mode without race pressure ## Newest reviews (18 of 133) ### 2/5 — Room for improvement *2025-03-14, version 2.2.2* Looks like it has potential, but wind direction is not easy to notice shifts. Main issue for me is the other boats never give way. ### 2/5 — Okay, needs work *2022-10-28* Steering input is sketchy at best…no consistent correlation to how much finger movement equals how much rudder so you’re constantly turning to much or not enough. Maybe give the option to use the g-sensors like the driving games? A course overview before the start would be nice, as would a chance to start on the port tack. ### 3/5 — Good, could be great *2021-06-25* This game is fun for what it is, but it’s not exactly a simulator. The penalties are a bit screwy (I think it misunderstands the overlap rules.) Bit two improvements would really help. The player should not be on starboard tack all the time. Also a prestart would be great And it would be awesome if there could be some accounting for wind blocking. So the trailing boat could make the downwind boat go. ### 4/5 — General fixes *2019-08-26* Rsx needs the sail to come around the front of the board during gybes, Nacra and 9er needs kite, add proper 49er with kite Nacra needs to foil but good game in general ### 2/5 — Has potential, but a long way to go *2019-05-14* Nice idea but until you have a different racing options and a better command of the boat, sail trim and choice of sails for example... I’m just not convinced, good to have any sailing apps out but just because there is limited competition, there’s no excuse for such a, in fairness, weak effort. ### 3/5 — Plz fix *2019-05-09* Nacra needs to foil and at least both the 9er and the nacra need kites to be better ### 4/5 — Good Sailing Game *2018-08-19* Great game--very good physics. I wish I could see the course beforehand and/or adjust the view. Need to know where I'm headed prior to the mark rounding. ### 3/5 — Rules need improvement *2018-06-18* For a game made with the the RYA you would expect the rules to be better implemented ### 3/5 — Les règles ... *2018-01-31* Le jeu et l'adversaire ne connaissent que très mal les règles de courses et les règles de match race ( au vent/sous le vent, proper course, etc). Je comprends que ça doit être très dur à programmer mais j'espère des améliorations sinon super jeu. ### 2/5 — Come on *2017-08-02* I would like to like it since it's the only DECENT sailing game out there but there's so much potential and no one is pursuing it ### 4/5 — Ótimo! *2017-06-22* Mata a saudade de velejar! Poderia ter regatas mais longas e talvez uma disputa online tb! ### 4/5 — Good game *2017-05-21* This is a good game but I would like to have more boats e.g. Toppers or rs 200 ### 4/5 — Really Good , Needs More *2016-12-22* More options of boats and locations. Need to add a multiplayer that would be really fun ### 3/5 — Decent sailing game. Needs work. *2016-12-09* Game is pretty good. Need ability to adjust competition level. Needs more than two courses. Need to change the direction of the wind from course to course. Need a knot speedometer. ### 3/5 — Needs work *2016-10-27* This game is really fun, but some of the penalties are messed up. I'll get penalized for hitting a port tack boat while on starboard tack. It also penalizes the leeward boat for hitting the windward boat, when the opposite should actually be the penalty. Also it's super annoying that the player always starts on port tack. I almost always hit the committee boat unless I turn up into the wind more than I want to. A 10-20 second start sequence would be a lot more fun and realistic! ### 4/5 — Nouveaux bateaux *2016-09-19* Super jeux très réaliste. Y aura-t-il une mise à jour incluant de nouveaux bateau ? ### 4/5 — À tester pour tous les voileux *2016-09-18* Jeu et graphisme réalistes. Pour améliorer ce jeux encore plus, il faudrait l'utilisateur puisse aussi faire lui même le réglage des voiles. ### 4/5 — Great fun and reasonable variations. *2016-09-01* The option of a "Course to be sailed" button giving the player the chance to see a plan view of the course marks prior to starting would be a useful addition. Down wind legs could also have a launch spinnaker option for those boat designs that could have flying sails. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — A lot of effort for a dumb result *2020-02-23* Clearly this is a well made game for its graphics are pretty good! However it’s all for nought as the camera angles ruin it completely. Really stupid programming. ### 1/5 — Something to fix *2019-06-20* It is fun, but sailing rules are wrong in this game. ### 1/5 — Not accurate *2018-12-01* The game needs to be developed more. The starboard rule only seems to take effect when you make a mistake but not if the computerised opponent makes a mistake. ### 1/5 — Crashes all the time *2017-12-05* It consistently crashes on certain boats. Furthermore, when it does work, you always start on a port tack with the committee boat in the way, thereby allowing the computer boat to win 9 times out of 10. The computer boat always starts on a starboard rack. ### 1/5 — Not even a good arcade game for kids *2016-09-18* If you're looking for a real tactical simulator, this is not it. This might be an OK kids game if the boats were steerable and the camera angle didn't swing all over the place for no apparent reason. Races are too short and action is excessively accelerated. If you're looking for a decent tactical racing simulation, THIS IS NOT IT. Also very annoying that it takes 5 tries to post this review, app says user name is already used then deletes entire review. ### 1/5 — Hopeless *2016-08-02, version 2.2.2* Terrible and glitchy! Use clever sailing. ### 1/5 — Mediocre at best *2016-05-05* The steering is poor and at times unresponsive, rendering the game useless. Too bad. Could have been an ok game otherwise. Can steer, why bother sailing? ### 1/5 — Would love to like it but sorry I can't *2016-01-23* Graphic is good, good range of boats but poor control, limited overview of the racing area etc. You can do much better. ### 1/5 — Adverts *2015-07-25* Keeps cutting away to adverts whilst I'm playing. Sort it out ### 1/5 — Sail for Gold *2015-06-24* Absolute rubbish. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — PLEASE REVIVE THIS GAME *2026-07-03* make it more customizable in the racing terms, wind, length, #of boats, type of course. PLEASE ### 5/5 — Amazing!!! *2020-06-05* Amazing game, I play it all the time but it would be awesome if you could chose your starting positions and more boats on the line ⛵️ ⛵️ ### 5/5 — fun *2017-08-03* This is excellent fun and taken in the spirit it teaches the basics. Would be good to progress to busier events with more competitors and potentially a "free" sail section to learn without any race pressure. Great for passing the time between real sailing :) ### 5/5 — Like *2017-04-13* Like It ### 5/5 — Bien *2017-03-10* Pas mal, mais il faudrait de meilleures commandes et des manches comme en régate avec procédure et plus long bord de près. Il faudrait aussi un spi. ### 5/5 — Great Fun! *2017-01-07* What a fantastic little game. Great way to get your head around the basics of sailing. Very challenging. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Fun *2016-02-12* Very good game. ### 5/5 — Challenging *2015-11-23* Each race is a challenge, great time killer. ### 5/5 — Super *2015-10-08* Je recommande ### 5/5 — Great game needs some more work tho *2015-07-06* This game is really good with its works with physics and has a wide variety of boats. But I wish you could choose the course and maybe have better animations like with people and the spinnaker. Also on some boats the jib does not switch sides. I also wish that you had boat customization and a larger fleet size --- *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 2026-08-17.*