Boat Games

Boat racing games

Racing on water feels different from racing on a road. Your boat slides through the turns, bounces over the waves and loses speed if you cut a buoy too tightly. In Jet Ski Racer 3D you race five rival riders through buoy gates, jump off ramps and pull tricks in the air to fill your turbo, on six courses from a tropical lagoon to a night course and a storm. Speed Boat Racing 3D is faster and heavier: offshore powerboats with nitro, racing round six circuits from a coral coast to a glacier fjord and a volcano island. River Rafting Rush 3D sends an inflatable raft down eight white-water rivers full of rocks, logs, whirlpools and waterfalls, against three rival rafts. Sailing Regatta 3D is a real sailing race: trim the sail, tack upwind round the marks and cross the start line just as the gun goes. And Aqua Slide Race 3D races you down giant water park slides, where jumping off the wall onto a lower slide is the fastest way to win.

Boat and ship simulators

If you prefer steering carefully to racing, the boat simulators are for you. Boat Simulator 3D gives you an open harbour, six islands and five boats, from a speedboat to a container ship, with jobs to do: run a water taxi, deliver supplies to the islands, tow a broken-down boat with the tug, sail a ferry route and take a fishing trip. Boat Docking 3D is a parking game for boats with 15 levels: back into a marina slip, park sideways against a wall in a crosswind, take a boat through a canal lock and dock a huge container ship. Cargo Ship Canal Simulator 3D puts you on the bridge of a giant cargo ship in a narrow desert canal, with an engine telegraph, a bow thruster, convoys and a swing bridge. In Coast Guard Rescue 3D you race to swimmers in trouble, put out a fire on a burning boat, tow a broken yacht home and search for lost sailors in the fog. Deep Sea Fishing Boat 3D mixes boat driving with big game fishing for tuna, marlin and, at night, swordfish.

Pirate and warship battle games

Pirate Ship Battles 3D gives you a pirate ship, a crew and a sea full of islands. Sail with the wind, line up a broadside and fire the cannons from the left or right side of the ship, sink navy sloops and rival pirates, chase merchant ships for their cargo, storm the island forts and dig up buried treasure. Warship Sea Battle 3D is a modern naval battle game: command a destroyer, a cruiser or a battleship, aim the guns with the camera, launch torpedoes, drop depth charges on submarines and hide behind islands with a smoke screen. For a calmer battle, Naval Battle is the classic battleship board game against the computer or a friend, and Battleship Solitaire is a logic puzzle where number clues tell you where the hidden fleet is.

Ocean adventure games

Some boat games are about exploring. In Island Hopper Boat Adventure 3D you sail a little motor boat between eleven islands, help the villagers, collect map pieces and find the pirate treasure on Skull Island. Raft Survival Ocean starts you on a tiny raft in the middle of the sea: hook floating planks and barrels, build your raft bigger, craft a water purifier and a grill, keep the shark away and build a radio to call for rescue. Submarine Explorer 3D takes a little yellow submarine down through a coral reef, a kelp canyon, a deep trench and the dark abyss to find sunken wrecks. Build a Boat for Gold lets you design a boat from wooden, foam and metal blocks, add motors and balloons, then see how far down a dangerous river it gets. And in Mermaid Ocean Adventure you dress up your own mermaid and swim the ocean helping sea friends. If you like water parks, Waterpark Tycoon Simulator lets you build your own slides and pools.

Learning and puzzle games

Jet Ski Math Race is a race where every right answer to an addition, subtraction or times table question boosts your jet ski ahead of the other racers. Water Sort Puzzle is a calm colour sorting puzzle with 200 levels.

Tips for driving boats

Boats do not stop when you let go of the throttle: they glide, so slow down before you reach a dock, a buoy or another boat. Start every turn early, especially in a big ship, because it takes a while for the rudder to swing the bow round. Wind and currents push you sideways, so aim a little upwind or upstream of where you want to go. Going backwards steers the opposite way, which takes practice when you park. And on a racing boat, a smooth line through the gates is faster than a sharp turn that kills your speed.

Why kids love boat games

Boat games mix speed and splashes with problem solving. Children learn to judge distance and momentum, to plan a turn before they need it and to read the wind and the waves. The simulators reward patience and careful steering, the adventures are full of things to discover, and the races give a clear goal to beat. Every game works with a keyboard or a touchscreen and saves progress only in your own browser.

More water fun: try our Fishing Games, or ride the waves on land with the Car & Driving Games, Train Games and Flight Simulator Games. See the Parents & Safety page for privacy details.

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