Deep Breath

Deep Breath

Dive deep. Grab pearls. Surface before your luck (or your air) runs out.

Deep Breath is a push-your-luck party game for 3–8 players. Everyone dives together into a reef full of pearls and trouble. Each turn a new card is revealed, and every diver secretly decides: stay down for more, or head for the boat with what you've got?

Stay too long and a second shark will send everyone swept away, pearls and all. Push your tank too far and you'll black out. Leave too early and you'll watch from the boat as everyone else splits a fortune.

How it plays

• Play on your phone. No app needed. Players join by typing a room code into their phone's browser. The host runs the game on their PC and streams it to the group, so you can play in the same room or remotely over Discord.
• Secret decisions, revealed together. Everyone locks in Surface or Stay at the same time. Guess who'll chicken out first, and time your exit.
• Manage your oxygen. Every card costs a breath. Air pockets top you up, riptides drain you, and a moray eel bite leaves you with a smaller tank next dive.
• Hidden scores. Your pearl total is private until the end, so nobody knows who's really winning.
• Mystery treasure chests. Surface at the right moment to claim a chest, but you won't know what's inside until the very end, when everyone taps their chests open for the big reveal. Could be a fortune. Could be a very disappointed hermit crab.

Features

• 3–8 players, about 10–15 minutes per game
• Five dives per game, with a dramatic final score reveal
• Phones become private controllers, so no extra hardware is needed
• Built for streaming: big, readable visuals even on a compressed stream
• Bright, cheeky underwater art

Take a deep breath… and dive in.