TransOcean: The Shipping Company
Skip · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 16.8h
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce 7600 Series/ATI Radeon X1600 or better (min. 256 MB VRAM), 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
TransOcean – The Shipping Company is your ticket to the world of gigantic ships and transnational transport empires. Build a mighty fleet of modern merchant ships and conquer the seven seas.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was June 2016. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 66 in the 12 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Transport Fever 2 ($39.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Transport INC ($11.99, scores 24).
None of the 245 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
57% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
25 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 15:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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Was feeling a 40 year old itch to play Ports of Call and this fit the bill. Very satisfying. Clearly inspired by the original work, if not just modernized and emulated. Well done. Only gripes are you probably aren't going to sink weeks into this game and it seems super crashy, but the frequent auto-saves help with the latter.
I first purchased this game some years ago and played it until it became corrupted and stopped working. I deleted the game from my steam account and started looking for an alternative game. Unfortunately I could not find one as good. So I purchased the game again and hoped any corruption would be removed. It wasn't the game refuse to save and after three attempts to play the "cast off" stopped working. This game is...
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Cite this score
TransOcean: The Shipping Company scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/289930/transocean-the-shipping-companyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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