Beachcomber
Brush the tide line, uncover shore treasures and fill your journal.
How to play
- Press and drag over the small rippled mounds in the sand. On a keyboard, move the round brush with the arrow keys and press Space.
- Keep brushing a mound until the object beneath it is uncovered. It enters the Tide Journal immediately; nothing needs confirming or selling.
- Now and then a small animal is under the sand instead. It is noted on the journal’s Shore Life page and then goes on its way, and some tides bring a bottle holding the next piece of a letter.
- Open the journal to revisit every shell, piece of sea glass and shore keepsake you have found. Repeated finds add to their count.
- Choose New tide whenever you want another shore. Unfinished tides and the whole journal are saved on this device.
What it trains
- A slow, tactile search with clear places to explore and no time pressure
- A 66-entry collection and five sets to complete, unfolding at a gentle, varied pace
- Calm by design: no score, failure, lives, energy, ads, account or punishment for leaving
Play Beachcomber free in your browser: slowly brush through rippled sand to uncover empty shells, softened sea glass, feathers, fossils and other small treasures left by the tide. Six finds wait on every shore, and each tide brings an unpredictable mix of familiar pieces and new places for the 66-entry Tide Journal, five collections to complete — one of them a letter that washes up a piece at a time — and the odd hermit crab or sea star, seen and then left where it belongs. New pages keep opening at a gentle pace, and patient exploring can complete the whole journal without a long grind. There is no timer, score, energy, entry cost or way to lose. An unfinished tide and everything you have found stay saved on this device, ready whenever you return.
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