Arcade
Zifir
Dive from the surface into the dark as Fenik, a hunter with a glowing lure. Eat, grow and stay out of sight.
- 2–10 min
- Single player
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How to play
- Swim, eat smaller creatures and avoid the toothed rings that mark hunters.
- Switch the light on to see further and draw small prey, off to hide. Hold it for Flare, which stuns nearby creatures.
- Catch ten prey, each within 1.6 seconds of the last, to start the Glimmer; only the first four from one school count. The dive ends when fullness reaches zero.
Controls
Press and hold on the water to swim toward the pointer; Light and Speed buttons appear on touch screens. Keyboard: WASD or arrows, Shift or a double press to dash, Space or E for the light (hold for Flare), P or Esc to pause. Gamepad: stick, A dash, X light, Start pause. TV remote: arrows, OK for the light, Back to pause; on a TV the game fills the screen and every setting is in the pause menu. Marks: a toothed ring is a hunter, a half ring is both hunter and prey (face it to eat it, otherwise it bites), a dot is food. The game needs sight and is not playable with a screen reader.
About this game
A deep-sea hunting game. You steer Fenik, an invented hunter with a glowing lure, from the surface through three depth layers to a seabed at 4,000 m. Fullness never stops falling: eat creatures smaller than you to refill it and to grow through five forms. Each deeper layer needs a larger form, and a Fenik that is too small starves three times as fast there, so diving straight down does not pay. Your light draws small prey but shows you to hunters from far away, and holding it makes Flare, a flash that stuns everything close by. Catch ten prey in quick succession to reach the Glimmer and eat larger animals. The score is what you eat plus a bonus the first time you enter each layer. Protected animals cannot be eaten. Giant clams give pearls, which are saved on this device.
- Depth
- 3 layers down to a 4,000 m seabed
- Creatures
- 22 species, 5 forms of Fenik
- Controls
- Pointer, touch, keys, gamepad, TV remote
