Paahu
Bring a coral reef to life.
Uses DDAP Sigil
Paahu is a calm game about bringing a dying coral reef back to life. You start on a quiet, struggling reef: pale coral, broken rubble, and a warm volcanic seep bubbling in the middle.
Draw currents to carry drifting plankton down to the coral, steer the vent's warmth, and watch the reef heal and fill with life, from the coral out to the kelp forests beyond. Every species is drawn from the real Indo-Pacific, in soft underwater light, with the sound of the water and singing bowls. No timers, no lives, and no way to lose.
How It Plays
Draw the Currents
Drag a finger through the water to draw a current that carries plankton down to the pale coral, where it feeds and heals. Tap to send out a ripple.
Keep It in Balance
Steer the vent's warm water over healthy coral and the reef becomes a place fish want to live. Too much warmth bleaches coral, too much food grows algae, and too much stirring clouds the water, but healing is quicker than harm and nothing is ever lost for good.
Life Moves Back In
Each creature arrives when its home exists: chromis and anthias, butterflyfish, tangs and Moorish idols, Clark's anemonefish in their anemone, a cleaner shrimp, a goby, a giant clam, a puffer that puffs up at a tap, an octopus and a moray, with turtles, jellies and eagle rays passing over.
A Reef Without End
Drag with two fingers to move along the reef. Beyond the coral lie golden Sargassum and kelp forests swaying in the swell, pinnacles crowned with sea fans, swim-through arches, a deep trench and an old wreck overgrown on the sand.
Bigger Visitors
On a reef grown large, bigger visitors come in their turn: reef squid, blacktip and whitetip reef sharks, barracuda, dolphins, a manta, hammerheads, a whale shark out in the blue and, very rarely, a humpback whale far off.
Leaderboards and Achievements
When you leave, put the reef to bed: its living coral goes to the leaderboards, with your friends first and then the world, and achievements mark what it has become. While you are away the reef keeps growing a little. Leaderboards are optional; the reef plays fully without them.
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Privacy
Your reef is stored on your device. Leaderboards and friends are optional and use an anonymous DDAP Sigil: a random ID, the gamertag you choose, and your game results. No name, email, phone number or location is collected. Data is never sold, never used for advertising, and never used to track you, and you can delete your Sigil and all of its data from inside the app at any time. Read the full privacy policy.
Join the Paahu Beta
Paahu is in private beta for iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets. Testing is by invitation: tap Request Beta Access below and fill in the short form in the email: your device, operating system and version, and the Apple ID or Google account you use with the App Store or Google Play. Test invitations are tied to that account, so please use the one on your device.
Paahu is free, with no ads. No account is needed to play.