Rule the Waves 3 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Rule the Waves III is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970.

Rule the Waves 3 is a wargame, simulation and naval game developed by Naval Warfare Simulations and published by Slitherine Ltd..
Released on May 18th 2023 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 841 reviews of which 750 were positive and 91 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 38.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 9.52€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Rule the Waves 3 into these genres:

Wargame Simulation Naval Military Strategy Naval Combat Singleplayer Alternate History 2D Management Cold War World War I World War II Turn-Based Strategy Design & Illustration Historical Choose Your Own Adventure

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Windows

OS: Windows 10, 11
Processor: 1.2 GHz min, 2.4+ GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: No minimum requirement (no hardware video acceleration is required)
DirectX: Version 9.0

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

Look at a few screenshots of the game. If you don't recoil from them in horror, and are even mildly interested in past century naval warfare, you will like this game.

Oct. 2024

This game is an Excel spreadsheet, you should know that before spending money it. Having said that however there is no denying that the game is the most comprehensive early 20th century naval warfare simulation out there.

May 2024

Loving this game. I see some criticism in reviews I feel are misleading. The AI doesn't stand and fight if they know they are outnumbered, is true, but its really quite sensible. You get Victory points for that. Not as much as if you annihilated their fleet, but it does mean no losses. However not all fights are avoidable. With good intel and good officers you will find that you can ambush AI units (if you want), where they are forced into battle. The game simulates a lot of aspects of naval warfare that games tend to ignore. And intelligence and reconnaissance is a vital part of the game. If your spies don't find out when the enemy ships are like, its hard to identify them. If you don't know where the enemy is, it hard to fight them. If you read about historic naval battles, you find that, even with battleships and aircraft carriers on both, it can be very hard to pin down the enemy location. Note that micro managing the battles is not the big focus of the game, with properly set up divisions, your ships should do well with the AI at the helm. You are the Grand Admiral, your primary task is management (also note you are not head of state, even if you can have massive influence on them). the RNG in the game is part of the simulation. The game is trying to make it so someone from 2024 going back to 1890 can't just do whatever they want using their knowledge of how tactics and designs worked out. So implementing some decisions is part of the tech tree. And there is some randomness (you can choose to increase/decrease it) to how effective things are. And there often has been a lot of uncertainty in naval warfare, so that a ship has a defect, or a plane does not perform as well as expect is really part of the job. I will admit there is a ton going on in the game, and it can be very hard to know what you are missing. Often it can be a massively helpful/important thing. The manual does not go into a lot of detail, and seems to omit some things it probably shouldn't but do turn to it for guidance. Googling can help a lot too. So some tips: use permanent divisions to make ships you want to be deployed together in battle more often. set divisions to have specific roles, so the division will do that automatically in ever battle also rebuilding ships does not use naval yard capacity, and generally faster than building new ships, much faster for larger ships.

May 2024

amazing game, 10/10 for the love of god add a dark mode

April 2024

Arguably one of the best Naval Sim's out there. The graphics are fairly basic but it get's the info across in a very easy way. Can spend a ton of time on each play through and get entirely different scenarios. Great game.

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