Phriniverse

Welcome to the Phriniverse

A small desert world with a camel detective, a robot sidekick, a busy fishing port and a band. We make games, tools and music inside it.

Case files

Five things to open

Two apps, a game, a band and the world they all share.

Web app
Live
15 day streak
Practice scales, 15 min
Read 20 pages
Water the cactus

PhriniDailies

A social habit tracker. Keep daily streaks alive by making them public, team up with friends and follow curated decks for your hobbies.

  • Streaks
  • Decks
  • Groups
  • Leaderboards
Open PhriniDailies
Telegram game
LivePixel art of a ship deck on the Calm Belt

PhriniFishing

A fishing RPG for Telegram group chats. Cast together from Port Ressar, fill your keepnet, cook your catch and take on the bosses of the deep.

  • 7 waters
  • 78 species
  • 2 bosses
  • 61 achievements
Play @phrinifishingbot
Web app
LivePhrini reading a book titled PhriniFluent

PhriniFluent

A vocabulary trainer for learning languages. Pick a word group, get a word, type your answer and check it.

  • Word groups
  • Quizzes
  • 800+ words
Open PhriniFluent
Music
LiveSunny Daze video thumbnail

Oysterwaves

Our band. Instrumental funk and synth tracks, each with its own pixel-art video. The newest one is Sunny Daze.

  • 7 tracks
  • 2 shorts
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
Listen
World
New Dubairas skyline at dusk

Humra

The world under everything. A camel civilisation in what used to be Australia, six hundred years after the Great Sizzle.

  • Year 600 A.S.
  • 7 factions
  • 11 biomes
Explore Humra
Interactive

Phrini's Office

Click around the room. Every object is a clue that leads somewhere in the verse. Find all ten and the locked drawer opens.

Skip the Office
0 of 10 clues
A detective's office: a case board with a map, a wall calendar, a window with blinds, a mounted carp, a shelf with a carved pumpkin, Phrini reading at a desk with a lamp and a gramophone, a hat rack, a briefcase and a floating robot.

The setting

Welcome to Humra

Australia, six hundred years after the Great Sizzle. Camels run the place now: casinos in the capital, time police in the basement and a fishing port up north that the railroad mostly forgot.

Quirky and satirical on the surface. Morally grey underneath.
Visitor permitNo. 0600-AS
Nation
Humra, from Al-Humra, “the red”
Capital
New Dubairas
Currency
Spurs
Residents
Camelus sapiens, unofficially
BronzeSilverGoldCrimson
The Gut
Tap a pinFour places to start with. The full map lives on the World page.

The team

Made by two

The Phriniverse is a duo for now: one of us writes the code, the other draws the world. Together we also make music as Oysterwaves.

Meet the team →
Anton playing a bass guitar
Personnel file

Anton

Makes
Code and game systems
Plays
Guitar, bass and production

Builds PhriniDailies and PhriniFishing and keeps the servers running. Plays guitar and bass in Oysterwaves and produces the tracks.

@flagrogrey on Instagram
Dmitry's pixel art of a camel and a robot
Personnel file

Dmitry

Makes
Art and the world of Humra
Plays
Guitar and production

Draws the characters, designs the look and writes the world of Humra. Plays guitar in Oysterwaves and produces too.

@swel1a on Instagram

From the docks

Latest releases

All releases →
PhriniFishing v0.4.5

Fish shoals and quicker casts

  • Keep an eye on your water: a fish shoal («Стая») can drift past the place where you fish. Greet it in time and the whole chat gets faster bites for a while.
  • When a boss fight wraps up, the «Забросить снова» button is now there no matter how the fight went, so you can get back to fishing straight from the chat.
  • Epic catches no longer star themselves. Only legendary and better, full 5★ trophies, and protected wildlife lock on their own; your epics sell freely unless you pin them yourself.
PhriniFishing v0.4.4

A Kraken you can beat

  • The Kraken was far tougher than it had any right to be. The battle is rebalanced so a well geared angler who plays it smart now has a real shot at landing it. Bring your best rod, mind your line, and pick your moments.
  • The fight used to borrow a few words from a certain pumpkin. The battle log, the health bar, and the result messages all name the Kraken properly, so a run on the Штилевая Полоса reads the way it should from hook to finale.
PhriniFishing v0.4.3

Favourites stay safe

  • A starred fish is a keeper. Karp won't buy it, and it stays out of the campfire, tributes, and the cooking pot until you take the star off. So nothing you care about gets used up by accident.
  • Storms roll over the Штилевая Полоса more often now, and the Kraken takes the hook more readily when one hits. If you have been hunting it, your odds just went up. Keep an eye on the barometer.