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Silent Service cover art

Silent Service

MicroProse Software, Inc · Atari · 2014-11-06

SteamGOG

Simulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: 1985 (Commodore C64/128/MAX), 1986 (ZX Spectrum), 1987 (Thomson MO5), 1989 (Amiga), 1986 (Atari ST/STE), 1985 (Apple II)

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Silent Service is a Simulation game released in 2014, priced at $6.99, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (61% of 33 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

61%
positive of 33 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)
Silent Service is a submarine simulator video game designed by Sid Meier and published in 1985 by MicroProse for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and IBM PC compatibles, then ported to other home computers. A Nintendo Entertainment System version developed by Rare was published in 1989 by Konami in Europe and by Konami's Ultra Games subsidiary in North America. Silent Service II was released in 1990. Tommo purchased the rights to this game and published it online through its Retroism brand in 2015.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 67% of 16,678 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120142026Week of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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