Titanic Shipyard vs Ship Handling Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Titanic Shipyard
Build a thriving tourist city around the iconic Titanic. Attract visitors and businesses to transform the shipyard into a prosperous destination. Your goal is to generate wealth by making Titanic a central attraction.
- City construction
- Tourist attraction development
- Business management
- Economic simulation
- Titanic theme
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Create a city for Titanic. Let's make Titanic a beautiful tourist city instead of the shipyard. A large number of tourists and companies that operate Titanic require a Titanic to depart. If Titanic appears in the city, a lot of tourists will appear. Then you will soon be rich.
Ship Handling Simulator
Experience realistic ship handling, maneuvering, and mooring with tugboats. Pilot a vast array of vessels, from historical steamships to modern carriers, through challenging scenarios. Navigate narrow passages, avoid hazards, and master complex docking procedures.
- Realistic ship handling and maneuvering
- Mooring with tugboat assistance
- 30 detailed ship models
- Hazard navigation and AI vessel interaction
- Dynamic weather and environmental conditions
- Sandbox mode for custom levels
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Original simulator of ship-handling, maneuvering and mooring to a pier with tugboats. 30 high-detailed ships, included passenger ships, cruise liners, cargo ships, battleships and aircraft carriers, from historical steam ships of 19th century till modern nuclear. Realistic control of single and multi-screw vessels (including famous Titanic, Britannic 1874 and 1914, Carpathia, Mauretania, Aquitania, Californian) and azimuth propulsion. Maneuvering with thrusters. Mooring the vessel to the berth using two tugboats with separate control. Departure from the berth and arrive into target area. Narrow-swimming, bypass of hazards, minefields, passing with other AI vessels. Sea marks of hazards and channels according to international rules. Day and night modes, different environment and weather conditions, calm or storm water with ocean waves and icebergs. Sandbox mode. You can create and pass your own levels. Damage and sinking of ships at collisions, splitting in half while sinking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ship Handling Simulator at $10.99 against Titanic Shipyard's $29.99. Ship Handling Simulator also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 33 months) and ratings volume (341 vs 2). Titanic Shipyard's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Titanic Shipyard costs $29.99 and Ship Handling Simulator $10.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Titanic Shipyard holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ship Handling Simulator has 341 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Titanic Shipyard's written reviews are positive against 82% of Ship Handling Simulator's.
Titanic Shipyard ships an update every 33 months, Ship Handling Simulator every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Titanic Shipyard | Ship Handling Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | $10.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.2 (341 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 82.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 341 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 633 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Domyung Kim | Aleksandr Turkin |
Customer experience
Titanic Shipyard
Ship Handling Simulator
Bugs and requests
Titanic Shipyard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ship Handling Simulator
Reported bugs
4 issues- Icebergs not spawning in sandbox mode
- Telegraphs not loading on some ships
- Game crashing when sinking large ships
- Issues with ship speed controls
Requested features
6 requests- Add more ships (Lusitania, Queen Mary, Poseidon, etc.)
- Improve sinking animations (funnel collapse, split in half, etc.)
- Implement working lifeboats and passengers
- Add underwater view and ocean floor
- Introduce more gameplay modes (tug control, port management, etc.)
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- Improve graphics and water physics
In-app purchases
Titanic Shipyard
No in-app purchases
Ship Handling Simulator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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