Blow Up Kerch Bridge Simulator – Ukrainians Launch New Video Game

A Ukrainian developer has launched a new video game, “Bridge Hunter,” letting players creatively destroy the Kerch Bridge – the strategic span Moscow built to link occupied Crimea with Russia.

The bridge in real life, which serves both as a logistics route for Moscow troops and a symbolic landmark of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, has been a target of multiple Ukrainian strikes, with the latest occurring in December 2024.

The game, launched on the gaming marketplace Steam on Thursday, Nov. 20, allows players to use various drones and jets to knock down the bridge and Russian equipment stationed on top through basic physics simulation.

“Greetings, pilot. Get ready to deploy your drone for the mission at hand! Your objective is to prevent the enemy from using a vital bridge. You have the freedom to try out various tactics and abilities in a fully destructible environment. Your role is crucial!” the game’s promotional text says.

Gameplay footage shows that the player can switch between drones – including unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), similar to real-world operations in 2023 targeting the bridge’s support – to target the bridge with different munitions.

With ragdoll physics and comedic animations, the game lets players control weapons modeled on those used by the Ukrainian military in real life.

According to a player review, a jar of cucumber is a usable in-game weapon – a not-so-subtle nod to the real-world footage of an elderly Ukrainian woman lobbing a jar of pickled cucumbers at a Russian drone in 2022.

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Ukrainian Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk revealed that Ukraine’s systematic interdiction campaign has fractured Russian logistics leading into occupied Crimea. With the Kerch Strait Bridge closed to fuel tankers and alternative maritime ferries heavily damaged, the Russian military has resorted to disguising fuel trucks as civilian vehicles – such as milk and food transportation trucks – to traverse the land corridor through occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

At the time of writing, the early-access game costs $8.99 after a 10% discount and is the only game from developer Double Light. It has seven reviews at the time of publication, most of which praise the game’s idea.

The game’s developer also said it partnered with “Come Back Alive,” a Ukrainian charity supporting the military, to donate 25% of all profits to the group until the end of the war.