The Long Descent

Casual

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

The ocean went silent. You're the probe they sent to find out why. Harvest the dark, certify your hull, and keep descending — the deep no longer has a floor. The ocean went silent. You're being sent down to find out why. The Long Descent is an idle deep-sea odyssey: pilot the last exploration probe, harvest energy from the dark, and descend through 31 hand-written zones — from the sunlit shallows to places the sea itself doesn't talk about. DESCEND — Every zone multiplies your output and deepens the story. Your pressure hull must be re-certified at each boundary: reinforce the ship, watch it visibly armor up, and push past the wall. DISCOVER — Catalogue 93 painted deep-sea species, each with its own lore and passive bonus. Rare editions (Shiny → Abyssal) make every sighting a roll of the dice. DIVE — A skippable reflex minigame: steer by headlamp through painted mines and jellyfish for an energy burst. The deeper you go, the dimmer your light. REFIT — Surface, trade your depth for Cores, and descend again — permanently stronger. ◆ Fully painted world: ship, creatures, machines, story vistas ◆ Offline progress — your drones keep working while you're away ◆ Plays in minutes-a-day sips or long hauls; no energy timers on gameplay ◆ No forced ads, ever — every ad is a button you choose to press, and it pays you for pressing it ◆ No account, no server — your save lives on your device ◆ Analytics are opt-in, anonymous, and off until you say otherwise ◆ Optional Pearl bundles support development — the weekly featured bundle carries real bonus Pearls, and there are no fake sales here The road on the seabed is paved, straight, and older than the coastlines above. Who built a road down here? Descend and find out.

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    10 Ratings

THE DEEP IS ENDLESS The wall is gone. Past the old floor the machinery keeps coming — new modules forever, new echoes, new trophies — down to a real ending more than six times further out. Production, energy and every price keep going as far as you can push. THE DEEP PUSHES BACK Every zone now costs more of your income than the one before it. Forever — no plateau, no depth where the descent stops asking anything of you. Reinforcing your hull prices in the strength you bring: your first vestige levels are free, then the water charges a growing share of everything you have built. Descending itself stays cheap. The frontier is what you earn. VESTIGES — A SECOND REFIT LAYER Push your frontier deeper and every Core you own is worth more, permanently. Unlocks on your fifth refit. DIVE RUNS FLY FREE The probe is off its rail — drag anywhere and it goes there. Half the motes wink out partway up, so depth is a real decision, and the hazards aim at where you are. Plus a whole dive bench in the refit shop: longer dives, a wider pool, a third life, and a lure that brings the deep to you. YOUR BESTIARY PAYS FIVE WAYS Descend cost, tap power, Cores, dive hauls and offline time — not just production. Echoes inherit what they echo, so the endless half of the collection is as varied as the authored half. YOUR SAVE MOVES WITH YOU Save codes are 88% smaller, and importing on a new device finally works. ALSO • Reinforcing the hull costs 40% less, so early walls are a pause and not a stop • Modules you have outgrown can be salvaged for Cores, each worth what it was worth when you built it • Energy chests surface while you play • Manual Harvest rebalanced end to end — tapping is worth doing everywhere, and is no longer the only thing that works • The trophy shelf never empties • Landmarks all the way down: Sirius, the Orion Nebula, the heart of the galaxy, the edge of the observable universe • Smoother on deep saves

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Seller
  • Shai Ankori
Size
  • 41.4 MB
Category
  • Casual
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
9+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Remove Ads $3.99
  • Abyssal Engine $4.99
  • Deep Permit $9.99
  • Pressure Vault Crack $4.99
  • Pressure Vault Crack III $19.99
  • Pressure Vault Crack II $9.99
  • Abyssal Pearl Cache $19.99
  • Deep Growth $9.99
  • Fund the Expedition $4.99
  • Aurora Hull $1.99
Copyright
  • © 2026 Shai Ankori