Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

WARWAKE

A World War II naval combat game about steel, distance, and the seconds between salvos — where you drive the ship yourself.

DIRECT CONTROL OF WWII WARSHIPS

You drive the ship. Rudder, throttle, turret traverse, and the long lag between giving an order and the hull actually answering it. Not a menu with a battle happening somewhere behind it.

FLEET COORDINATION AND LARGE-SCALE BATTLES

One ship is a duel. A line of them is a problem. The interesting part of naval warfare is what happens when several hulls have to move as one thing and someone gets it wrong.

FAST AND CINEMATIC, WITHOUT LOSING THE WEIGHT

Shells take time to arrive. Ships take time to turn. Everything else should be quick: get in, get shooting, get a result. Weight where it earns its keep, speed everywhere else.

WHERE IT ACTUALLY IS

Very early, and said out loud. Right now it is one class of ship, one ocean, and making the main guns feel good. Ships steam, turrets train, shells land. Almost everything else is placeholder and most of it will be rebuilt at least once.

Rather than disappearing for a year and coming back with a finished game, this one gets documented from the beginning: what works, what doesn't, and what had to be thrown away. If you want to argue with a design decision, the earlier the better.