Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 4804750 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 0 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | $6.99 |
| Free to play | No |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | $6.99 |
| Current price USD | $6.99 |
| Release date | Jul 9, 2026 |
| Developer | Creamhouse |
| Publisher | Creamhouse |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | Not available |
| Review type | 5 user reviews |
| Positive review percent | 100% |
| Positive reviews | 5 |
| Negative reviews | 0 |
| Total reviews | 5 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | 23 |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | Yes |
| Linux support | Yes |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/4804750/ |
Short description
Critical Load is an adult romance visual novel set at a desert AI data center during a record heat dome. As the director who decides who keeps power, romance three women: a cooling engineer, a county hydrologist, and the grid operator who can cut you dark. Contains explicit adult content.
About this game
Critical Load Critical Load is an adult romance visual novel set in the high desert outside Pinto Wells, Arizona, where a 1.2-gigawatt hyperscale AI data center drinks the aquifer and pulls more power than the surrounding county combined. You play as Wade Hollis, the local-born Critical-Facilities Director who signs the load-shed log and decides who stays lit when the grid runs short. Six weeks before a record heat dome peaks, an inquiry hangs over the last shed order, one that left a man dead in a 118-degree trailer, yet the company's go-live deadline won't move. In a town that remembers your name, three women pull you in three incompatible directions, each romance a different way of answering the same question: who gets carried when there isn't enough to carry everyone? Meet the Cast Dahlia Reyes — The Grid Operator Dahlia is the regional grid operations director whose dispatch order can carry Wade's campus through an emergency, or curtail it to black with one calm sentence. She and Wade were almost a life once: the shared apartment, the future half-built, the split neither of them would bend for. She knows his past, holds his present in her hands, and still has to be fair when the system demands a sacrifice. Sawyer Vance — The Hydrologist Sawyer is the county hydrologist measuring the basin as it drains, field by field, well by well, until the numbers become a verdict. She grew up two streets over from Wade, stayed when he left, and now stands at the microphone reading drawdown figures at the man he's become. To Wade, she's equal parts history and hard truth. Nadia Sokol — The Cooling Engineer Nadia is the lead cooling engineer who keeps a billion dollars of servers from cooking when the heat dome hits and the plant starts to fail. She's Wade's sharpest ally on the floor: deadpan, relentless, and fluent in the same late-night crisis shorthand that makes them dangerously close. Key Features A high-stakes systems romance: Power and water are treated as the same scarcity in two forms, every megawatt and every gallon with a human name attached. One decisive branch, three distinct routes: Choose which front you face first, campus, town, or grid, then follow a…
Supported languages
English * , French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America * languages with full audio support