🦪 Pearl Diver

How to play Pearl Diver

Pearl Diver is an underwater arcade hunt. You are the diver, gliding above a seabed dotted with five oysters. Each oyster opens and closes on its own rhythm, and an open oyster flashes a pearl — white pearls are worth 10 points, pink ones 25, and the rare black pearl 50. Swim down, touch an open oyster to pocket its pearl, then race back to the surface: your oxygen drains 4% every second underwater, and the dive ends at zero. Two hungry sharks patrol the mid-water on lazy sine-wave paths — bump into one and you'll be stunned for a second and lose 30% of your haul.

Controls

• Mouse / Touch: move your pointer (or finger) up and down over the water — the diver follows it smoothly.
• Keyboard: hold W / ↑ to rise and S / ↓ to sink.
• Surfacing: swim into the bright strip at the very top of the water to refill oxygen fast.

Tips & strategy

• Never chase a pearl below half oxygen — the swim back up always takes longer than you think.
• Black pearls are rare; when one appears, everything else can wait.
• Sharks telegraph their path — watch one full sweep before crossing the mid-water.
• After a shark bump you're stunned, so drift upward toward air while you recover.
• Oysters reopen on their own timers — park near a cluster and harvest them in rotation.

Scoring

Pearls score 10 / 25 / 50 by color; a shark hit costs 30% of your current score. The dive ends when oxygen hits zero, and your best haul is saved in this browser.