Shipping Manager

Shipping Manager

Trophy Games · September 18, 2023 · Strategy, Simulation, Management, Economy, Tactical

Shipping Manager is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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About Shipping Manager

Shipping makes the world go round

In Shipping Manager you can be the next big shipping tycoon and make sure your empire brings cargo and wares from the amazon to the chinese seas to the emirates on time. Play with or against friends and other real life shipping enthusiasts to control the seas and top the leaderboards.

Create and manage your own shipping empire strategy. In this multiplayer naval simulation game you have the opportunity to become bigger than real life container transport tycoons like Maersk, Evergreen and MSC. Create, schedule and navigate routes in the seas from ports like Shanghai, Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Singapore, Dubai, Hamburg and New York.

Choose between 2 game modes: EASY or REALISM. Go the easy way to lower prices and increase profits or challenge yourself with realism where you have to consider the smallest things like the fuel prices and canal usage tax.

People need their goods transported and by sea is the most optimal way by far! Not by air and not by land. Not by rental car, train, bus or aircraft. But by ship.

In Shipping Manager you get in-depth tactical features like being able to buy vast amounts of different real ship types and sail to over 400 real ports and docks all over the world.

Shipping features

  • Stop pirates from hijacking your ships.
  • Manage your staff.
  • Play the stock market. Invest in other shipping companies.
  • Manage company marketing.
  • and much more!


Ship features

  • Build new vessels.
  • Purchased used ships.
  • Track your routes live.
  • Customize your vessels to contain more cargo.
  • Improve ships to sail faster around the world.
  • and much more!

Become the CEO of an empire of cargo and travel naval routes and utilize your complicated strategy to be the new boss of the maritime world.

Shipping Manager — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
More games like this:Linux games

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 27, 2026
Pretty good. You've heard of Slow TV well this is Slow Gaming. Anyone who has had a crumby, mind-numbing desk job will appreciate this game - good to come back to throughout the day in between IRL tasks (helps to maintain what's left of your sanity). You can play on easy mode or go hard mode.
14 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 2, 2026
I can't log in because pressin the 't' key restarts the app, and unfortunately my email address contains the letter 't'. I tested the game myself on my phone and it was great, but I wanted to take a bit of the strain off my phone-as you can see, i still can't do that, so I suppose I'II have to switch to an Android/IOS or others Emulator
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 9, 2026
its a pretty boring map-based shipping manager with very little graphics. i played until i realized you can't earn any points on the Steam version, and you need points to hire people. you can use the mobile version to watch ads, or you can buy points. i'm not doing either of those things. uninstall.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 18, 2026
The SLOWEST of burns. If you liked Airline Manager, this is a worse version of it. It's harder to make money, the systems are similar, but not the same. Airline Manager is waaaaaay better and fleshed out, but it's not a bad game for being free. If you like incremental and a buggy mess, this is a fun enough game to sink some hours into.
Not recommended Sep 16, 2026
Amazing game, can't even log into a google account and can't type the letter "T" while creating your company name.
Recommended Aug 20, 2026
Shipping Manager is a management game that puts me in charge of my own cargo shipping company. I am dealing with ships, cargo, routes, ports and money, with the main goal being to grow the business into a much larger operation. What I like about the idea is that it focuses on the less exciting side of shipping that can actually make for a decent management game. I am not steering ships manually. I am planning routes, deciding what cargo to carry and trying to make sure each trip is worth the cost. The route system is probably the part I enjoy the most. There are more than 400 real ports to work with, including places such as Shanghai, Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Singapore and New York. I can create routes between them and then track my ships as they travel. There are also different types of ships to buy, used vessels to purchase and ways to improve ships so they can carry more cargo or travel faster. I like seeing the business slowly become more organised as I add more ships and find routes that make sense financially. There is more to manage than simply buying ships and sending them around the world. I can deal with staff, marketing, the stock market and even problems such as pirate…

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