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Deep Dive

Send penguins diving for fish and decide on every flip whether to surface or risk one level deeper.

You run a waddle of penguins diving for fish, and every dive is a bet. On your turn you flip an ocean tile and look at what it shows. Take the food in the shallows and surface safely, or push deeper for a bigger catch, knowing that the deeper you go the more predators are waiting. Food comes in colors and you score by building sets of three, so what you take matters as much as how much. The game ends when one depth of the ocean has been fully explored, and the best collection wins. It is a quick press-your-luck game with a little memory flavor, for 1 to 6 players in about twenty minutes. This is the 2023 penguin game, not other games called Deep Dive.

Flip tiles and choose how deep to divePredators punish greedy divesBuild sets of three food colors

Who it's for

You want a short push-your-luck game with a cute theme that works with a mixed group, across mixed ages.

Not for you if…

You dislike luck-driven risk or want a game with long-term planning. Your fate mostly rides on the next tile.

Vibe's take

Quick and tense in a small way. You keep telling yourself one more dive and then there is a predator, and everyone at the table groans together.

#3,487 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2023 Β· 3 years ago

newer than 71% of games

In 4,684 collections

collected more than 56% of games

1–6 players Β· ages 6+

Best with 3 or 4 Β· publisher: 10+

15–20 min

shorter than 84% of games Β· typical 30–90 min

Complexity: light

Explained in 5 minutes Β· 1.1 out of 5 Β· lighter than 89%

Opinions: broad agreement

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Language: no text

Playable without the language

Play style: competitive Β· solo too

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