THE DEEP
A SURVIVAL THRILLER · IN REAL TIME
Forty metres down. Six hours of air. One voice on the radio.
0207 GMT. A distress message from a research habitat forty metres under the North Sea was meant for the coastguard in Aberdeen. It reached you. Kit is trapped, the lab is flooding, and a calm voice on the radio is talking her through it.
HOW IT PLAYS
The Deep runs on your clock. When Kit is swimming, working a hatch or sitting out decompression, she stops texting, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours. Your phone buzzes when she's back. Answer straight away, or pick it up when you're free.
If she says she'll be an hour, it's an hour.
Kitmade it through. still here
Kitmarcus says don't open that hatch
Kitgoing in. give me fifteen minutes
THE STORY
Every choice you make follows you. Something you tell Kit early on can save her much later, or cost someone else everything. Choose badly and she dies. You can rewind to your last choice.
CHAPTERS
Your choices carry from one chapter to the next.
A flooding habitat, a dead radio, and the only other survivor. It wasn't an accident.
Three days in a sealed chamber on the way up, and someone on board wants her to drown.
Why was the relay sending to your number?
QUESTIONS
Yes. If Kit says she'll be an hour, it's an hour, and you get a notification when she's back. After your first ending, Fast mode lets you replay without the waits.
Kit can die. When that happens, you can rewind to your last choice and try again, or start the whole story over.
£1.99 for the app, which includes Chapter One. Chapter Two is a £1.99 in-app purchase. There are no ads and nothing to buy to skip the waiting.
The Deep is interactive fiction told through text messages: a choose-your-own-adventure survival thriller story where Kit texts you and you decide what they do next. If you enjoyed real-time text games like Lifeline, it works the same way: the story unfolds on your clock, with notifications when Kit gets back to you.
No. The whole story is on your phone and plays offline. Your progress stays on your device.
The Deep is on Android first. An iPhone version may follow.
YOUR PHONE IS BUZZING