Boat Games
Thirty-four boats. Three work on a phone — the lowest ratio of any collection on this site.
34 games · hand-picked, then filled from the catalogue
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Thirty-four boats, chosen one at a time. Two warnings first, because both change what you will find.
How this list is put together
This is not a page for your phone
Three of thirty-four are marked for touch. We checked it against all 416 collection pages on this site: it is the lowest of every one of them, at nine per cent.
It is not an accident. Steering a boat needs two axes at once, heading and throttle, and on a hull that keeps sliding after you let go, tilt is not enough. Almost all of these were built for a keyboard.
If you are reading this on a phone, three cards out of thirty-four carry the touch badge. The rest will wait for a computer.
And they are heavy
The median is 13.0 MB against 7.8 MB for the catalogue: nearly double, and near the top of everything we host.
Moving water is the most expensive thing on this list to draw. Reflection, swell, foam — and above all the wake behind the hull, which has to deform continuously. A car game can paint the road once. A boat game redraws the sea every frame.
What is here
| what they are | how many |
|---|---|
| speedboat and jet ski racing | 8 |
| sea combat and shooting | 8 |
| raft survival | 5 |
| rescue | 2 |
| cargo, mazes, puzzles | 11 |
Raft survival is the newest of these: a square of planks in open water, fishing rubbish out of the current, extending the floor, and trying not to become shark food.
Two catalogue traps worth telling
Searching for raft returns forty Minecraft clones, because the word craft ends in raft. Searching for ship returns championships of every sport, because championship ends in ship — plus combat helicopters, which are gunships, and spacecraft, which are starships.
Together they mean that searching this catalogue for boats brings back more Minecraft and more football than boats. Hence the hand-made list.
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What is here?
Thirty-four games: eight speedboat and jet ski races, eight sea combat, five raft survival, two rescue, and the rest cargo, mazes and puzzles.
Is there Battleship?
One, plus three warship games. The pencil-and-paper game — A-5, miss, hit, sunk — barely exists in this catalogue, and in Spanish and Portuguese it is searched more than boats themselves.
Do they work on a phone?
Three of thirty-four. That is the lowest of all 416 collection pages on this site: nine per cent. Steering a boat needs two axes at once and most of these were drawn for a keyboard.
Why are they heavy?
Because moving water is among the most expensive things to draw. The median here is 13.0 MB against 7.8 MB for the catalogue — nearly double.
Why is the list chosen by hand?
Because searching this catalogue for boats returns more Minecraft than boats. The word craft ends in raft, and championship ends in ship.