USV Polaris
by DarkXstory
Game Details
- Version
- v0.0.5
- Developer
- DarkXstory
- Engine
- Ren'Py
- Status
- Completed
- Language
- English
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 24 September 2026
About
You graduate from the academy and end up serving under your own mother, captain of the USV Polaris, a civilian colony ship meant to spend eighty years in cryostasis on its way to a new world. Three years in, the ship goes dark instead.
When you come out of stasis, the Polaris has vanished from wherever it was supposed to be, the crew is fraying under the strain, and something has started moving through the cargo holds and maintenance ducts. Nobody says what, exactly.
Play stays close to that setup: you read through the unraveling situation aboard ship as a visual novel, watching tension build between crew members while the mother-captain dynamic keeps things personal rather than purely tactical. The game is still working through its opening chapters, so the real fallout from whatever's loose in the ducts is largely still ahead.
Changelog
- The game begins:
- Survival system
- — Manage the MC's energy across ACTIVE / REST cycles. Eat, drink and sleep to keep going.
- Exploration mini-game
- — Descend the lower decks in a shooter with a custom crosshair, moving creatures, ammo management and a push-your-luck loot system. 5 levels, a boss, checkpoints
- — flee with your loot or dive deeper for more.
- ️ Mission Control
- — Send crew members on supply runs. They level up over time, gain XP even on failure, and high-risk sectors can end… badly.
- HQ free-roam
- — Clickable crew across the ship. Two gauges per girl (Trust & Corruption), a contextual menu, and unlockable interactions:
- talk → compliment → kiss → and beyond.
- NK2 Lab — Craft NK2 doses from organic components. NK2 protects the crew from the parasite… but corrupts the women. Neglect them and things take a darker turn (NTR)."
- N/A
- This version concludes the game's intro; the actual gameplay begins in version 0.0.3.
- Initial Release
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