Whatever Lets You Play As the Ship Stuck in the Suez Canal

If you watched, like the rest of the world, a massive cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal for nearly a week and thought, `I could’ve done better,” then Whatever on Steam is the game for you.

That’s because it’s a cargo ship drifting game that actually lets you steer a ship through a canal, not unlike the actual Suez Canal. It was created by someone curious about how hard such a task might actually be.

Spoilers: It’s apparently not easy.

WHATEVER is my attempt to answer that question and fulfill my curiosity,” developer Napas Torteeka writes on the game’s Steam page. “You will cry and finally realize how amazing every cargo ship’s captain is because it is extremely hard to pilot that !$@%!$# 200,000-tonne cargo ship with their extreme inertia through the canal.”

The game’s title is Whatever, which is also the title of the player-controlled cargo ship in the game. It’s a nod to the Ever Given cargo ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal for six days earlier this year.

Axios spoke to developer Torteeka about the game and how it came to be, and it turns out, it’s the first game Torteeka has developed in 15 years.