It was only a matter of time until someone came up with a game based around the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway that has spent the last couple of months in a perpetual quantum superposition of “open” and “closed.” In fairness, Bottleneck isn’t the first Hormuz-themed game— Sweep the Strait , a Minesweeper clone played on a Straits-shaped board, appeared within a couple of weeks of the first attacks on Iran in late February—but it’s probably the most in-depth such game we’ve seen so far. Given that it’s a free, browser-based game, you might expect Bottleneck to be something light-hearted and silly—like the aforementioned Sweep the Strait  or the immortal GETSADAM , surely the first ever ripped-from-the-headlines game. But no. This game is serious, both in tone and in subject matter. The game places you in the shoes of the Strait’s maritime coordinator at the start of a hypothetical 10-day closure. As your tenure begins, you’re greeted by 2000 ships backed up and waiting for passage.…