Koi Current

One golden koi. A pond full of hooks and herons.

About this game

Koi Current is a serene-looking survival game with a predator's heartbeat. You are the last golden koi in a temple pond, and everything wants you: fishing hooks drop straight down on schedules you can learn, while heron shadows bank and curve after you and must be outswum in long, graceful arcs. Drag anywhere and the koi follows with real momentum — glide, don't twitch, because sharp turns bleed speed exactly when the shadows close in. Every second survived scores a point; the lotus petals that drift across the pond pay five more, always blooming just far enough from safety to make you negotiate with your own greed. The difficulty current rises smoothly: at thirty seconds you are dancing, at sixty you are escaping, at ninety you are legend material. Three lives, instant restarts, and controls tuned so the koi swims beside your finger rather than under it. Calm water, ruthless sky — the contrast is the whole poem. Swim beautifully, or become someone's catch of the day.