Call From Below
A two-player deep-sea survival adventure built on separate information and shared decisions.
- Play on
- One shared laptop or desktop · JavaScript-enabled browser
- 8 sheets · choose A4 or US Letter
- Prepare
- Pencils · scissors
Download the files. Print at home. No physical items are shipped.
Check the preparation guideA closer look
Inside the experience.
“Surface, this is Nadir. I need you to stop bringing us up.”
A research submersible is silent 3,800 metres below the surface. Three people are aboard. Only one is answering. Call From Below is a two-player deep-sea survival game built around genuinely different information on the support ship and inside the cabin.
Why it needs two players
Surface holds system diagrams, research records and limited remote control. Cabin holds local instruments and observations the ship cannot see. You share one failing connection and must turn incomplete evidence into one rescue plan.
What you actually do
- Investigate physically by tracing damaged connections, cutting and aligning observation strips, and comparing charts.
- Operate a changing system by weighing battery against air and choosing what stays online.
- Commit the last transmission together before the remaining action passes to the cabin.
- Live with the result across three acts, six situations and four main recovery outcomes.
Planning is free; committed operations have visible costs. Mistakes consume safeguards and change the mission instead of simply erasing your session.
What is included
Complete local browser game, separate Surface and Cabin PDFs in A4 and US Letter, preparation instructions, personal-use licence, optional after-play explanations, save/restore tools and a keepsake mission record.
Digital download only. No physical materials are shipped.
Set the table
Exactly two adults, one shared laptop or desktop with JavaScript, a printer, eight ordinary sheets, pencils and scissors. Print one matching pair of role PDFs single-sided at 100% / Actual Size; grayscale is sufficient. Keep the role packets private.
Start, save and replay
Fully extract the ZIP, keep its files together and open START-HERE.html. The game runs locally after download, with no account or online multiplayer. Save/restore tools are included. The evidence is fixed; replay can explore different operational decisions and outcomes.
Contains fictional confinement, unresponsive crew, disaster and ecological risk. No jump scares or required audio.