Command a stranded oil tanker through a blockaded Strait of Hormuz in this adult romance visual novel. Protect your crew, resist corporate pressure, and choose one of three routes with your chief officer, a war-risk surveyor, or a survivor rescued from the sea.

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Planned Release Date: October 2026

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Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This visual novel contains explicit sexual scenes with full nudity depicted in an anime art style. These scenes occur as part of the story progression during regular gameplay. The game also depicts violence and fire at sea, injury and its aftermath, alcohol use, strong language, and a fictional maritime insurance-fraud scheme that places a merchant crew at risk. The story explores grief and bereavement and references an off-screen fictional armed conflict and off-screen deaths. Some scenes include consensual adult dominance-and-submission and sexual power-exchange, including one partner directing the pace and consensually holding or repositioning the other partner's wrists.

About This Game

Take Command in a Blockaded Strait

You are Archer Rusk, master of the product tanker Meridian, held at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz with twenty-six lives under your authority and flammable cargo beneath your feet. War closes the route while supplies thin and the office repeats one order: hold. Protect your crew, judge corporate orders, and decide what command means when insurance calculations conflict with the lives aboard.

War Risk is an adult romance visual novel built around three single-choice romance routes and multiple endings. Choose Vesna, Yvette, or Phaedra, and face the consequences of your decisions aboard the ship. Each romance route includes explicit adult scenes.

Meet the Cast


Yvette Sorel — The Survey
A war-risk surveyor and Archer's unresolved love from fifteen years ago, Yvette boards with the power to declare the Meridian seaworthy or a write-off. Her route forces Archer to confront the past and decide whether he will choose an accurate appraisal over a safer corporate lie.


Phaedra Lekas — The Survivor
Pulled from the sea after a nearby strike, Phaedra comes aboard carrying survivor's guilt and the duty of getting her dead master home. She and Archer share grief for the same man while trying to endure the blockade and determine what comes next.


Vesna Kral — The Mate
Archer's blunt, capable chief officer challenges his obedience to the office and his judgment as master. Her route follows a forbidden attraction within the chain of command as pressure builds across the ship.

Key Features

  • Three single-choice romance routes: Forbidden Attraction, Second Chance, and Widow's Confidant.
  • A sealed maritime setting aboard a working product tanker in a war zone.
  • Decisions that balance corporate orders, crew welfare, and command responsibility.
  • Multiple endings shaped by the route and choices you pursue.
  • Explicit adult scenes in each romance route.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI generated art, video, voice-acting, music, and writing.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7
    • Processor: 1 Ghz
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Mac OS X 10.6-10.14
    • Processor: 1 Ghz
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Game is non-notarized. May not work with 10.15 Catalina
    Recommended:
      Minimum:
      • OS: Ubuntu / SteamOS
      • Processor: 1 Ghz
      • Memory: 512 MB RAM
      • Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
      • Storage: 2 GB available space
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