Deep Dive Idle vs Impossible to Dig

Run a small dive operation and take it from the shallows to the bottom of the sea. Buy a mask, hire a diver, and watch the coins come up with every surfacing. Better gear means deeper dives, and deeper water means new things to find: reef fish, wrecks with rooms to salvage, sharks, deep-sea oddities and, eventually, the trench. PHOTOGRAPH THE OCEAN Fifty-six species swim past as you dive. Tap them to photograph them and fill the Catalog. Complete a set for a lasting bonus. DIVE DEEPER Six pieces of gear, each with its own upgrade path. Certifications unlock new depths and new gas mixes: air, nitrox, trimix. Send an Excursion for a big payout, safe or bold. EARN WHILE YOU ARE AWAY Your divers keep working when the app is closed. Come back to a welcome-back report: what they earned, what they found, how deep they went. SET SAIL Sell the operation and start again at a new site with tokens that make the next run faster. Your Catalog, logbook stamps and Pearls stay with you. NO ACCOUNT, NO PRESSURE There is nothing to sign up for. Rewarded ads are optional and always give something back. Play for two minutes or twenty. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

In Turkish, "digging a well with a needle" means doing something impossibly slowly. Here you actually do it: you have one sewing needle, the water in the first well is twelve metres down, and every tap digs 0.2 millimetres. All of it plays out on a Karagöz shadow-play screen: the village, the layers of earth and the tools are cut from leather, with a lamp behind them. The whole well is always on screen, so you can see how close the needle is to the water. The ground gives things back as you dig: old coins, bones, bits of pottery. Trade them for new tools: a safety pin, a nail, a spoon, and a bucket that keeps digging while the app is closed. Tools are never sold; every one of them is dug up. Above the well is a small village. Muhtar Kemal, Nazmiye Teyze, Demirci Hüseyin and Küçük Zeynep keep an eye on your progress and have something to say about it now and then. When the water comes up, the village changes too, and the tea house starts smoking again. The first well, the Old Yard, is free all the way to the water, and you can try the Garden for free up to its first root. The other four plots open with a single one-time purchase; there is no subscription. There are no ads, no energy bar and no timers either.