Out now · iPhone and Android · Optimized for iPhone Duo

Abyssal BloomOcean Drift

A calm descent into the deep. You are a small glowing spirit in a living, bioluminescent sea. Hold to swim, let go to drift, and everything you pass answers with light and sound.

Free to download. The first four zones are free; one small, one-time purchase opens the rest of the descent.

Watch it drift

No score. No way to fail.

Only depth, light, and the things that respond to you. Play for two minutes or two hours; the sea is still there when you come back.

Touch

Hold to swim

Swim toward your finger, or steer with an on-screen stick. Let go and you drift, sinking slowly into darker water.

Light

Everything blooms

Brush past the plant life and it flares with light and its own note of sound. Gather the floating spores as you go.

Life

Company in the dark

Jellyfish, schools of fish, anglers with their lures, and a whale whose song carries a long way down.

Fair

One purchase, that's all

No ads, no subscriptions, no accounts. Nothing is collected from anyone who plays, children included.

The descent

Five zones, each with its own colour, and its own creatures.

  1. The Sunlit Veil: teal water lit by shafts of light, the spirit glowing green among drifting particles and swaying plants.
    121 m

    Sunlit Veil

    Shafts of daylight, rippling caustics and the first plants that bloom as you pass.

  2. The Twilight Drift: deep blue water with a glowing jellyfish above and a school of large fish gliding past the spirit.
    421 m

    Twilight Drift

    The light gives out to blue. Big shapes glide by, and the jellyfish start to glow.

  3. The Midnight Garden: near-black water, the spirit glowing violet, an anglerfish's lure shining nearby.
    721 m

    Midnight Garden

    Violet fronds in the dark, and anglerfish dangling lights of their own.

  4. The Abyssal Bloom: black water, the spirit glowing green beside a luminous jellyfish.
    1021 m

    Abyssal Bloom

    Almost nothing but your own light, and the few things drawn to it.

  5. The seabed: a glowing floor of coral, tall stalks and jellyfish in pink, orange and green beneath the violet spirit.
    2290 m

    The Seabed

    The bottom of the world, and the brightest place in it.

Optimized for iPhone Duo

Abyssal Bloom reads how you're holding the phone and reshapes itself for each pose, so nothing you need to touch ever sits on the fold.

Tabletop and stand

The sea above, water below

The ocean reframes into the top half. The bottom half becomes a control surface of deep water, tinted to your zone, that ripples and bubbles under your thumb as you steer. A turbulent seam of two fluids swallows the hinge.

Book

Menus to one side

Menus and dialogs move into the left pane, keeping every tap clear of the crease.

Open flat

All ocean

The whole inner display is the sea. The most immersive way to play.

Closed

A full phone game

The outer display plays as a complete portrait game.

Details

Developer
Bear Poppa Studios LLC
Platforms
iPhone (iOS 17 or later) and Android. Optimized for iPhone Duo.
Genre
Relaxing exploration
Ages
Everyone
Price
Free. One optional one-time purchase opens the full descent.
Engine
Godot. Built in house.
Privacy
Collects nothing from anyone
Support
support@bearpoppastudios.com