Paleo Dive

Paleo Dive is a diving adventure set across more than 500 million years of Earth’s history. Explore five handcrafted underwater environments, document prehistoric animals and gather research while managing your oxygen and finding your way back to the research base.

Explore the oceans

The five environments range from a Cambrian lagoon to colorful reefs, dense kelp forests and the dark deep sea. Each dive displays your oxygen, depth, water pressure and remaining collectibles. A holographic map and an unlockable finder can help you navigate, and you can collect fossil and map fragments, coins and rare Moon Rocks.

Swim and survive

In VR, you swim by moving your arms, reach for discoveries and pull yourself along suitable surfaces. On desktop, you explore using keyboard and mouse or a controller. Choose a loadout from the camera, DNA scanner, headlamp, finder and oxygen bottle, and use coins to improve your swimming performance, oxygen capacity and research equipment.

You need to watch your oxygen and return to the research base in time. On Normal difficulty, dangerous creatures can attack; if a dive fails, you lose the collectibles, photographs and DNA progress earned on that expedition. On Easy, creatures do not attack, and your progress is preserved if you drown.

Research 48 species

Photograph prehistoric animals with your underwater camera. Capture each species from three clearly different perspectives to unlock a rotatable 3D specimen in the archive, and keep your photographs in a personal gallery. Use the DNA scanner to collect additional research samples; completing both the photographic and DNA research for a species lets you add it to your walk-in aquarium.

Unlock new dives

Discoveries and completed research objectives unlock new diving areas. Collecting Moon Rocks unlocks a night mode for each area. The game also has an animal archive with information and rotatable 3D specimens, collecting and equipment systems, and three save slots.