September 30, 2026 · Thomas

Deep End is almost here

Conversation cards that go a little deeper with every card. It's in testing on Google Play right now, and out in a few weeks.

Deep End: a conversation card that reads "Which question have you always wanted to be asked? And what is the answer?"

Most conversation card games have the same problem. The good questions are shuffled in with the small talk, so either the evening never gets anywhere, or someone gets a very personal question way too early and the mood is gone. Deep End fixes that by going down in order.

One card at a time, one depth at a time

Every deck starts at depth 1 and walks down to depth 10. The first cards are easy, the kind you can ask someone you met an hour ago. Every card after that goes a little deeper, and you can see it happen: the water behind the cards turns a darker blue, the sunlight fades out and the bubbles thin out the further down you get.

An easy first card The Deep End gate: Go to the Deep End? The surface card with the dive times

It starts easy, then you decide, then you come back up.

After depth 10 the app stops and asks: Go to the Deep End? Past that point the questions stop being safe, and some of them will feel uncomfortable. That's kind of the point, but only with people you trust, so it's always a choice you make together. And if it gets to be too much, there's a Get me to the surface! button. When you come back up you see how long you were diving and how long you spent in the Deep End.

The whole descent in 38 seconds.

11 decks, around 5,500 questions

Each deck is for a different table, and each one has around 500 questions sorted by depth:

Deep End is written for adults (After Dark especially), so it's 18+.

What it costs

First Round is free, all ten depths of it. Every other deck is a one-time purchase of 1.99 €, and All decks is 7.99 €, which also includes every deck I add later. Buying anything also opens the Deep End of First Round. No subscription, and nothing that renews.

What it doesn't do

No ads. No tracking. No account. Everything stays on your phone, and it works offline, so a cabin with no signal or a long drive is fine.

It's in English, Finnish, German and French.

When

  1. September 30Closed testing starts Testers are using Deep End on Google Play right now.
  2. Around October 1414 days of testing done The fixes from testing go in, and Deep End goes to Google for the production review.
  3. Around October 16Deep End on Google Play For everyone, on Android.
  4. After thatiPhone

If you have a question you think belongs in the Deep End, I'd genuinely like to hear it: contact@appbear.io