Plane Troubles vs Ship Maneuvering Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plane Troubles
Navigate a chaotic plane cabin to escape safely in this 2D arcade game. Swipe to avoid obstacles like smoke, fires, and unruly passengers. Test your survival skills in increasingly challenging evacuation scenarios.
- 2D arcade gameplay
- Aircraft evacuation simulation
- Swipe-based controls
- Obstacle avoidance (smoke, fire, passengers)
- Challenging survival scenarios
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Plane Troubles is a unique 2D arcade game that turns aircraft evacuation into pure entertainment. Unfasten your seat belts and, with a swipe of your finger, manouvre through the plane cabin to reach the safest exit. Become an evacuation master avoiding maddening queues, unruly passengers, cabin smoke and merciless fires aboard the most unlucky airline of all time. No doubt about it: each of its flights ends up in evacuation! How many plane troubles can you survive?
Ship Maneuvering Simulator
Experience realistic ship handling with this simulator. It features advanced physics like astern propeller effects, drift during turns, and velocity-dependent rudder and bow thruster performance. Explore various environments with different ship types.
- Astern propeller effect
- Drift during turns
- Pivot point movement
- Velocity-based rudder effectiveness
- Bow thruster influenced by velocity
- Sandbox environment
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This simulator will give you a realistic experience of what it's like to handle a large ship. It includes some features which often seem to be missing in other simulators: - Astern effect of the propeller - Drift during turn - Pivot point movement - Rudder effectiveness based on propeller flow and ship's own velocity - Bow thruster effectiveness influenced by ship's velocity For the moment there are three ships (cargo ship, supply ship and battle ship). In the future more may be added. The game is played in a sandbox style with a sea, river and port environment and customisable current. I plan to also add wind effect. The simulation is based on the mathematical hydrodynamic MMG model which is also used in professional ship handling and mooring simulators.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ship Maneuvering Simulator at every 6 days against Plane Troubles's every 32 months. Ship Maneuvering Simulator also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 69%). Plane Troubles's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plane Troubles holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 104 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Plane Troubles's written reviews are positive against 86% of Ship Maneuvering Simulator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Plane Troubles ships an update every 32 months, Ship Maneuvering Simulator every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Plane Troubles | Ship Maneuvering Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (35 ratings) — better | 4.3 (104 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35 | 104 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 32 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 338 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Universita' degli Studi di Udine | WPC |
Customer experience
Plane Troubles
Ship Maneuvering Simulator
In-app purchases
Plane Troubles
No in-app purchases
Ship Maneuvering Simulator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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