Oil tanker ship game for iPhone

You run tanker ships through a strait

Each job is a ship crossing. The tanker card shows cargo value, profit, exposure and World impact. Exposure is what you stand to lose if the crossing goes wrong. You can launch one oil tanker or risk a bigger convoy of ships. Profit lands only if the ships get across.

This is not a fuel truck game

Search results for an oil tanker game often mean a truck: a cab, a highway and a tank trailer. The Strait does not do that. There is no driving a fuel truck and no road delivery. The vessels are ships on the water. An Armed Escort is an escort boat you assign before launch. It sails with the tanker and fires on its own.

Defend the convoy

During a crossing you tap the water to shoot blockers off the hull. Each manual shot costs a little operating cash. You can also buy four kinds of defense:

• Armed Escort: an escort boat assigned before launch. It fires on its own during the crossing.
• Missiles: an emergency button that clears blockers in a panic moment.
• Chopper Support: air cover that hovers over the crossing and picks off threats for about half the run.
• The Dome: a shield that blocks all incoming hits for five seconds.

Watch for purple jammers. A jammer hit knocks your escorts, missiles, Chopper Support and The Dome offline for a few seconds, so sink jammers first. The game's own hints say a triple convoy should start with an escort.

The full crossing guide is on how to play The Strait.

Bank the voyage

Profit from a crossing lands in operating cash. Move it to Bank Cash, pay down the loan, and buy gold, bonds, stocks, property, yachts, private jets and private deals. Your score is Total Net Worth: Bank Cash plus assets, minus debt. Game Center leaderboards rank that number for Empire Mode and for 15-Minute Sprint.

The Strait is free on iPhone, needs iOS 17 or later, and is rated 9+. It is not on Android or PC. Ads can be removed with a one-time purchase. There is no subscription.