Play the city beneath the sea
Free browser games set in Atlantea — the submerged city of gilled humans that can rise from the sea and go to space. Start with the dive; more are on the way.
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Descend through the ocean zones to the lost city. Collect treasure, manage oxygen, dodge the creatures of the deep, then reach Atlantea — every corner an echo of Austin. Set your own lives and zones, and tune in to Deepwater Radio.
Play Dive to Atlantea →Walk the city in three dimensions. Drive a swimmer along the glowing underwater roads between nine districts, each one an Austin parallel you can enter, with Deepwater Radio playing the whole way.
Explore the 3D city →In development
The sport with no floor. Drive the buoyant pearl through the vent-rings inside a flooded sphere, where up is just another direction to attack from. Play the Gillhorns against the cold-water Boreal Crush.
Follows Issue 2 · “The Comeback”Pilot the whole city as it lifts from the trench toward the surface and the stars. Manage buoyancy, shed ballast, and thread the crowded orbit the surface world has been filling with satellites.
Follows Issue 1 · the city is a vesselAn endless climber. Catch the warm hydrothermal plumes and let the ocean do the lifting, riding thermoclines higher and higher through the dark without ever touching down.
The vent-kid’s trick, from Issue 1A calm dusk game. Guide the nightly river of bioluminescent creatures out from under the old span bridge while the whole city gathers to watch, pretending not to care.
Atlantea’s answer to the Congress Ave batsA quiet collecting puzzle in the lantern-lit shallows. Match and gather pearls, roe-cakes and reef tacos before the drift picks up and carries the vent-market away.
Everyday life in the cityThe games track Atlantea’s arc. Dive to Atlantea is the descent to the city and the walk through its districts. Deepball is the sport at the heart of Issue 2. The Ascent picks up Issue 1’s secret — a city built to rise — and carries it to orbit. Read the story first at Issue 1 and The World, or just dive in.