Recourse

Recourse is a top-down stealth-shooter wrapped in a slice-of-life visual novel. You play as Adam, a 19-year-old starting college while living with people unaware of your past training in espionage and combat. Your caretaker has left town with a single request: protect everyone in the household. By day, you attend classes, work, and build relationships with an adult cast of housemates—your choices determine what they learn about you and shape your romantic connections. By night, you undertake stealth missions inspired by games like Intravenous, using tactics like cutting power, disabling lights, lockpicking, and managing guards who work as squads. Gameplay is lethal or non-lethal; your choices and actions are remembered and reflected in news reports and character dialogue. The game features hand-crafted story missions alongside procedurally generated side jobs, with romance routes, multiple difficulty levels, and mid-mission saves.