# Cruise Ship Handling

> Simulation

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1595839901](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1595839901)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1595839901`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Aleksandr Turkin
- **Category:** Simulation
- **Rating:** 4.30 / 5 (78 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.09
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-14
- **First published:** 2021-11-18
- **Size:** 211 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cruise-ship-handling/id1595839901)
- **Website:** [https://alekstur79.wixsite.com/cruiseapp](https://alekstur79.wixsite.com/cruiseapp)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://alekstur79.wixsite.com/cruisehandling](https://alekstur79.wixsite.com/cruisehandling)

## Description

Cruise Ship Handling is a realistic ship maneuvering and mooring simulator that puts you in command of modern cruise liners. It features multi-screw propulsion, separate propellers, and bow/stern thrusters to practice precise steering, docking, and departure from berths. The game includes 8 contemporary liners, AI traffic, hazard avoidance, and realistic berthing sequences.

Explore dynamic day/night environments, varying weather with waves and ice, and scenarios ranging from calm seas to storms. The simulator also models collisions, damage, and even sinking, offering a challenging, immersive maritime training and entertainment experience.

## Rankings

- #152,466 — Overall
- #23 — handle

## Review summary

Users broadly praise Cruise Ship Handling for its engaging, realistic docking simulation and fun gameplay, and they consistently welcome ongoing updates that add more ships. However, they repeatedly call for more ships and larger vessels (Disney, Oasis/Icon, Carnival, MSC, QM2, etc.) and lament ships that were removed (Aida). A large share request new features: passengers and crew walking around, realistic lifeboats that deploy in emergencies, rescue vessel calls, sandbox/free-play mode, and more authentic water effects. Some criticize the price/graphics and a few updates. Overall, improvements to realism, variety, and features are the main expectations.

### Pros

- Super realistic docking simulation and approaches.
- Fun, easy to play and highly engaging.
- Frequent updates adding more ships and growing ship library.
- Overall enjoyable experience with strong gameplay and potential.

### Cons

- Ship variety is limited; need more and bigger ships and some are removed (e.g., Aida).
- Missing sandbox/free-play and key interactive features like passengers/crew walking, lifeboats deployment, and rescue options.
- Graphics and realism expectations not met; concerns about horn sounds and overall realism.
- Price/value concerns about paying for the app; some feel it isn’t worth it.
- Requests for Disney, Carnival, MSC and other popular ships/ports indicate ongoing unmet demand.

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