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A submarine simulator is a video game in which the player commands a submarine. The usual form of the game is to go on a series of missions, each of which features a number of encounters where the goal is to sink surface ships and to survive counterattacks by destroyers.^{[citation needed]} Submarine simulators are notable for the highly-variable pace of the game;^{[citation needed]} it may take hours of simulated time to get into position to attack a well-defended convoy,^{[citation needed]} and sub simulators typically include an option for players to adjust the ratio of real time to simulated time up and down as desired.^{[citation needed]}

Most submarine simulators use World War II as the setting; its submarine warfare was lengthy and intense, the historical material is extensive, and the limited capabilities of the period's submarines place a high premium on game playing skill. Games usually feature either US submarines in the Pacific Ocean, or German U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean. Another popular category is modern attack submarines, especially those of the Los Angeles class also known as "688s" after the hull identification number of the first vessel of the class.

Game displays generally include an overhead map or "radar" view, showing the submarine and any ships whose position can be detected, the periscope view if the sub is close enough to the surface, a set of gauges showing depth and course, and a boat plan showing torpedo availability, damage to various subsystems and other in-game issues that may arise.

The first submarine simulator available to the civilian public was Thorn EMI's Submarine Commander of 1982.^{[citation needed]}

Titles

Name	Year
1914 Shells of Fury	2007
Battle Submarine	1995
688 Attack Sub	1988
688(I) Hunter/Killer	1997
Aces of the Deep	1994
AquaNox series	1996–2020
Archimedean Dynasty	1996
Barotrauma	2023
Cold Waters	2017
Command: Aces of the Deep	1995
Dangerous Waters	2005
Danger from the Deep	2003
Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation	1990–91
Deadly Tide	1996
Depthcharge	1977
Deep Fighter: The Tsunami Offensive	2000
Dive to the Titanic^[1]	2010
Enigma: Rising Tide	2003/2005
Fast Attack: High Tech Submarine Warfare	1996
GATO	1984
Harpoon	1989
The Hunt for Red October	1987–90
Hunter Killer	1989
Iron Lung	2022
Operation Neptune	1991
Periscope	1966
Radar Mission (Mode B)	1990
Red Storm Rising	1988
Sea Wolf	1976
Silent Depth: Submarine Simulation^[a]^[2]^[3]	2016
Silent Depth 2: Pacific^[4]^[5]	TBA^[b]
Silent Service	1985
Silent Service II	1990
Silent Hunter	1996
Silent Hunter II	2001
Silent Hunter III	2005
Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific	2007
Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic	2010
Silent Steel	1995
SSN-21 Seawolf	1994
Steel Diver	2011
Submarine Commander	1982
Sub Battle Simulator	1987
Sub Command	2001
Sub Culture	1997
Sub Hunt	1982
Sub Mission	1986
SubRoc-3D	1982
Subwar 2050	1994
Tom Clancy's SSN	1996
U-boat	1994
Uboat	2024
Up Periscope!^[6]	1986
Under the Ice	1987
Virtual Sailor	1999
Wolfpack	1990

The adventure game Codename: ICEMAN (1989) by Sierra On-line contained a submarine simulator portion.

The vehicle simulator game Naval Ops: Warship Gunner 2 (2006) by Koei features submarine hulls & puts the player through several submarine piloting missions, though several other missions are also restricted against submarine use.

AUV simulators

There are also a number of simulators available for underwater robots such as AUVs. These simulators are commonly used by research institutes for testing robot control and coordination algorithms before or during the development of a submarine. One of them is UWSim, the Underwater Simulator, which was developed in the IRSLab for marine robotics research and development. UWSim started with the RAUVI and TRIDENT research projects as a tool for testing and integrating perception and control algorithms before running them on the real robots and has continued its development until today.^[7]