Full Dive

You log in to the world’s most immersive game. Then the logout button disappears.

The premise

You are a beta tester for FULL DIVE, billed as the most advanced immersive game ever built. You jack in, a chirpy guide-sprite called PIXEL welcomes you, and then you both notice the same thing: the Log Out option is simply gone.

PIXEL explains the only way out. The game will not release you until you clear the worlds it throws at you and recover four shards of the admin key. So you play. And each world glitches a little more than the last.

Four worlds, one escape

• The arena. You are tonight’s headliner. The crowd is enormous and getting fonder. A tour manager in black tailoring would like to discuss the encore.
• The stadium. A championship final, a coach who believes in you, and a rival on the other side of the floor who never loses and does not seem to know why.
• The castle. A noblewoman who refused to die, a steward who has been polite for far too long, and a cup at the head of a long table that you may accept or decline.
• The city. Rain, neon, a case file eight years cold, and a missing engineer in room 408 of the Sterling Hotel who checked in and never checked out.

What waits at the Core

Behind all four worlds is ROOT, the security process running what is left of a bankrupt studio’s servers. ROOT is not a villain in the usual sense. It was given one last instruction by the lead engineer before she walked out for good — keep the players safe until I get back — and it has kept that promise for years, to a tragic extreme.

Seven endings are reachable. Collecting all four fragments unlocks the best of them, but there is always an ungated path to a real ending, so a missed shard can never strand you. Each world also hides an ending of its own, for players who decide they would rather stay.

How to play it

Full Dive is built into AdventureWeaver and sits at the top of the main menu. It is free, needs no account and no purchase, and plays fully offline. On iPhone 15 Pro and later you can talk to any character in your own words using on-device Apple Intelligence; on other devices they use written dialogue instead, and the adventure plays through exactly the same.

Play free on the App Store