Don’t bother with the multiplayer part of the game unless you and your comrades have hours to waste. There’s slow and then there’s Silent Hunter slow. True, it is a submarine naval simulator and games like this are supposed to be played slowly, but this slow is just not my style.

Silent Hunter offers up to 8 players to fight it out over naval supremacy. Assuming that you’ve found others with just as much free time as you, there are two ways to play Wolves of the Pacific: Coop, and Adversarial (aka Death-match).

In the cooperative mode, you and your teammates each command a sub and take it to the enemy fleet. It really is just that simple.

The adversarial mode gets a bit more tricky. One person controls a submarine, the other(s) controls a fleet. Playing the hunter seems to be more fun, but be careful because sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted. That’s what happened to me the first game, got in too close to the Japanese fleet and the rest was history. My ghost haunts the waters of New Guinea now.