Maelstrom

Maelstrom is a player-versus-player naval combat game built around warship command rather than open-world exploration. You pick a faction — Humans, Orcs, Dwarves or Ghosts — take a ship out onto a storm-lit sea, and fight other players with cannon fire and positioning. It is listed as an MMO and is tied to the Somnia blockchain.

What works, on paper, is the focus. Naval combat is a narrow enough subject that a game can do it properly, and the described mix of maneuvering, gunnery and roaming sea monsters suggests fights where reading the water matters as much as raw firepower. Four asymmetric factions and solo-or-team play give the format some room to breathe.

What does not work is everything around the game. There is no listed developer and no official website, which leaves no way to check who is building it, how active they are, or what the Somnia integration actually does — no token, item or ownership detail is stated anywhere. For a chain-linked game, that absence is the most important fact about it.

It is for players who want a session-based PvP ship brawler and are comfortable trying something with no visible team behind it. Anyone who wants to know what they own before they play should wait.