Nice foundation but clumsy UI spoils it – Top Sailor Review

The sailing physics are quite nice. Solid simulation foundation. Quite like the game. Unfortunately, much of it gets spoiled by the interaction and UI. The most annoying thing is the camera. In almost every race I accidentally move the camera, looking up into the sky or backwards, causing me to capsize or do some other unfortunate maneuver. The left, right and bottom areas should be completely reserved for steering controls instead of having the available touch area limited to the actual icon. Also, instead of the view toggle button, I'd prefer explicit view buttons that can be accessed quickly, among them a completely locked camera. One other annoying thing is the wind changing directions in a very unrealistic way. Within one race the wind sometimes rotates around at random up to a 180 degrees. This usually doesn't happen in the real world. At least not within 10 sec. ;) Last I agree with a previous reviewer, the capsize happens too quickly. Of course, I would also like to see some other boats added as other reviewers suggested. Especially the addition of a jib equipped boat that can sail higher into the wind would be great but first and foremost the UI issues would be a much more important bug to fix. Thanks a lot and keep up the great work. Great game.
Review by neal_ex on Top Sailor.