Swim the whole ocean
One open sea you can swim and walk through, from sunlit sand to kelp forests and glowing caves. Diving is how you move, fight and escape.
Early alpha · friends & family testing
The held door
DYRHALD
An underwater online game. Humans and fishmen share one ocean, push ever deeper, and slowly learn the abyss holds something older than either of them.
The story so far
A colony fell. You lived.
The surface died generations ago. People live below the waves now, in sealed domes and reef cities. Dyrhald was one of the few places where humans and fishmen lived side by side, until a blight rose from the deep and swallowed it.
You are one of its survivors, with no memory of the last night. Dead water is creeping upward, the reefs are bleaching, and every species blames another. The only way to the truth is down.
What you do
Dive, fight, carve, craft, go deeper
Each dive is a loop: head out, fight, gather what the sea gives you, come home, upgrade. The long goal is the next depth, where the water gets darker, colder and stranger.
Guns and blades
Harpoon guns, nail guns, scatter nets, gill shooters, spears, tridents and hammers. Swing, block, and land hits you can read.
Carve what you kill
No loot shower. Whatever you hunt, you carve by hand for scale, fang, meat and chitin, and better materials make better gear.
Gather and craft
Glowcoral, kelp, copper and iron ore. Every item has a quality and every material a rarity, from coral tools up through copper, bronze, iron and steel.
Your Den
A home base under the sea, with a forge, workbench, storage and a trophy wall. Sell from home, and set your hearth to wake there if you're knocked out.
A living sea
Named rare creatures in their lairs, fish migrations, predator frenzies, kelp blooms, and cultist raids on the town of Saltreach. Defend it, or don't.
Two species, one ocean
Tech or adaptation
Human divers survive on what they build: rebreathers, lamps, wetsuits and dive kit that grow with them. Their power lives in their gear.
Fishmen change their own bodies. Low-light eyes, deeper gills, pressure bladders: permanent adaptations with a cost.
Both species play together in the same world. The species changes how you see the story, not who you can group with.
Meet the species
Latest news
Release 7
New
- Carving: creatures now drop their loot when you carve them, and everyone who helped gets their own share.
- Hearths: you wake at the nearest hearth you've found when you're knocked out.
- Ammo pouches are kept by the server, and carving creatures can give you scrap.
- Poison and bleeding build up from bites and spines; cure them with a Kelp Poultice or a Patch Bandage.
- Crafting: station recipe lists, a search box, categories, and an ingredient picker that shows the quality you'll get.
- The Drowned Light: a sunken lighthouse with quest finds inside.
- Dropped items and anything that doesn't fit in your bags land as pouches in the world.
- Den upgrades take what they need straight from your storage chest.
- Settings: pick your screen resolution (with Keep or Revert) and customise your crosshair.
- A What's new screen (this one), new music, and kelp veins to gather.
Changed
- Named rare creatures are much tougher (three times the health), and at most two are out at a time.
- Chat is easier to read; only lines starting with / are emotes.
- Clearer XP and loot text, and backings behind on-screen prompts.
- Updates are now required: when a new release is out, the game asks you to restart so the launcher can update you.
Fixed
- Invisible creatures that could still hit you.
- Being pushed back or kicked for brushing against walls.
- The sword plunge exploit.
- The Shrine of Echoes step, copper ore's tool, and feet sinking into the sand.
- NPCs in Nim and Meridian walking through things.
- Chat sending only to players who are connected.
Want to help test?
Dyrhald is in a small, early alpha with friends and family. It's rough, it changes every week, and your bug reports shape it.