Diamond Spectre is an original tactical arena shooter for you and your friends. Lean, crouch and aim down sights across three arenas and seven modes, right in your browser.
Diamond Spectre plays on a computer, with a keyboard and mouse or a controller. It has no touch controls, so save the link for later.
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The game
It's a first-person arena shooter built for nights in with friends. Open a link, make a room and you're in: two squads, GHOST and RAVEN, or every operator for themselves, on three original arenas. Bots fill the empty slots, so a match works with two people or eight.
It runs in your browser tab. The arena's art downloads while the host is still picking settings, and the game picks a graphics level for your computer on the first visit.
Friends, bots or both in one room. Share a four-character code or an invite link and your squad is in.
Rushers, stalkers, anchors, flankers and skirmishers. Bots crouch, peek around corners, play the objective and hand their slot to a friend who joins.
Lean around corners, crouch behind cover, vault low walls and aim down sights. Every piece of cover stops rounds exactly where it's drawn.
From the PP9 sidearm to the scoped Marksman Rifle, with fire modes, pickups and drops. Hold V for the weapon wheel.
The host sets the weather. In the rain, surfaces turn dark and glossy, puddles ripple and the fog closes in, except under a roof.
Play with an Xbox- or PlayStation-style controller through the browser, or keyboard and mouse. Every key and button can be rebound.
When a match ends, one click on Screenshot saves a scorecard image with the result, the map and every operator's kills, assists and deaths. Paste it in the group chat.
Every note of the music and every sound effect is original, generated in code. The match music turns up for the last minute or a close score. This page's theme, “Facets”, was rendered by the game's own audio engine.
Modes
The host picks the mode, the score limit and a 3, 5, 10 or 15 minute clock in the lobby. In squad modes it's GHOST against RAVEN with friendly fire off.
Every eliminated operator drops a Spy License, a holographic top-secret ID card, where they fell. A kill only counts when the other squad walks over that license to collect it. Reach your fallen teammate's license first and you deny the point. Licenses nobody claims expire after 30 seconds.
WinFirst squad to the license limit (10–50).
Take the enemy flag from their base and carry it home. Your own flag has to be at your base for the capture to count.
WinFirst squad to the capture limit (1–5).
GHOST against RAVEN. Every elimination adds to your squad's total.
WinFirst squad to the kill limit (10–50).
Hold the marked zone. Your squad scores a point every second it holds the hill alone; a contested hill scores for nobody.
WinFirst squad to the point limit (30, 60 or 120).
Both squads race for one neutral hostage. Reach it uncontested to become the escort, then bring the hostage to your squad's pad. If the escort falls, the hostage waits where they dropped.
WinFirst squad to the rescue limit (1–5).
Everyone carries a gold pistol, and one hit eliminates, armor or not. Other weapons, mines and pickups are switched off.
WinFirst operator to the kill limit (10–50).
Every operator for themselves. Grab weapons from the pads, keep moving and watch your back.
WinFirst operator to the kill limit (10–50).
A loot-and-shoot mode in development for the Slatewater prison arena: search the facility for weapons and gear and collect TOP SECRET files. Fall, and you drop the files you carry.
PlanHold the most files when time runs out. Not playable yet.
If the clock runs out first: in squad modes the higher score wins and a tie is a draw; in Deathmatch and Golden Gun the most kills wins, then the fewest deaths.
Maps
Every arena is 64 by 64 meters, with its own light and every mode, and plays in clear weather or rain. GHOST starts on the north side, RAVEN on the south.
Dusk
An abandoned industrial compound. A steel-roofed vault holds the center, four lamp-lit corner rooms anchor the edges, and long open lanes run between them under a low sun.
Night
A fictional Las Vegas resort after dark. GHOST holds the hotel lobby and grand atrium, RAVEN the porte-cochère, marquee plaza and pool deck, and the casino floor sits between them under chandeliers and neon.
Late afternoon
A fictional corner of Istanbul's old city: vaulted bazaar lanes, a domed bedesten, a fountain court, a square under a great plane tree, a hammam and a tea terrace above the roofs, all in warm afternoon light.
Operators
Six operators, from tactical gear to a business suit. In squad modes your color stays on the armband and name tag, so a suit still reads as GHOST or RAVEN. Your first-person arms match your pick, and a change made mid-match takes effect when you next respawn.
Tactical
Tactical
Coveralls
Casual
Business suit
Business suit
Portraits are rendered by the game itself. Until you choose, you get an automatic operator for your slot; bots pick their own.
Arsenal
Every weapon carries its own Diamond Spectre name. Everyone deploys with the PP9 Pistol; the rest wait on pickup pads around the arena and come back 20 to 40 seconds after someone takes one. Headshots do double damage, and every gun loses some punch at range.
| Weapon | Class | Role |
|---|---|---|
| PP9 Pistol | Sidearm | The pistol everyone carries. Semi-automatic, eight rounds, unlimited spare magazines. |
| Ironbark .357 | Sidearm | Six-shot revolver. Two body hits or one headshot drop a target out to about 38 m; wide from the hip. |
| Midge MP | Sidearm | Full-auto machine pistol. Deadly up close, wild past a few meters. |
| Twin Hammer Sawed-off | Primary | Double barrel. Both barrels together eliminate inside 4 to 5 m and do little past 10 m. |
| Breakwater Auto-Shotgun | Primary | Semi-automatic shotgun, eight shells loaded one at a time. Two shells drop a target out to about 8 m. |
| Riot Shotgun | Primary | Pump-action. Two shells drop a target out to about 8 m; weak past 11 m. |
| Wren PDW | Primary | Fifty-round PDW with the best hip-fire in the game; full damage to 15 m. |
| Kite-9 SMG | Primary | Fast, tight submachine gun with full damage out to 25 m. |
| Graywing C14 Carbine | Primary | Full auto or three-round burst. Steadier than the KR-7 and stronger at distance. |
| KR-7 Rifle | Primary | Full-auto rifle with the fastest automatic kill up close; full damage to 35 m. |
| Halberd Bullpup | Primary | Semi-auto or two-round burst. Accurate, with full damage to 45 m; slower to aim and draw. |
| Marksman Rifle | Primary | Scoped bolt-action. One headshot or two body hits, with full damage to 120 m. |
| Prox Mines | Gadget | Proximity mines that stick to any surface and go off when an enemy walks past. Up to three placed at once. |
The host picks the rule. Arsenal lets you carry everything you pick up. Tactical limits you to one sidearm, two primaries and mines, and you swap on purpose with G.
Hold V, the middle mouse button or Y on a controller to see every gun you carry with its ammo, then point and release. The match keeps running while it's open.
A fallen operator drops the gun in their hands with the rounds it had. Walk over it to take it; it stays for 45 seconds.
Controls
These are the defaults. Every key and button can be rebound in Settings, along with sensitivity, invert Y, hold or toggle for crouch, lean and aim, and a southpaw layout for controllers.
| Action | Keyboard and mouse | Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Move | W A S D | Left stick |
| Look and aim | Mouse | Right stick |
| Fire | Left mouse button | RT / R2 |
| Aim down sights | Right mouse button | LT / L2 |
| Lean left / right | Q / E | D-pad left / right or stick clicks (tap to lean, hold to peek) |
| Crouch | C | B / Circle |
| Jump and vault | Space | A / Cross |
| Reload | R | X / Square |
| Switch weapon | 1–5 or mouse wheel | Tap Y / Triangle |
| Weapon wheel | Hold V or the middle mouse button | Hold Y / Triangle |
| Fire mode (Graywing, Halberd) | B | D-pad down |
| Drop or swap weapon | G | D-pad up |
| Prox mines | 5 | LB / L1 |
| Scoreboard | Hold Tab | Hold View / Share |
| Save a scorecard | P while holding Tab | D-pad up while holding View |
| Pause | Esc | Menu / Options |
Squad up
Rooms hold up to eight operators. There's no matchmaking and no sign-up: you share a code with the people you want to play with.
Open the game, type a codename and choose Create room.
Your room gets a four-character code, like C8LU. Send it to your friends, or press Copy invite link in the lobby: the link opens the game with the code already filled in.
They enter the code and press Join. Bots can fill the empty slots, and each one steps aside when a friend joins.
The host picks the map, mode, limits, clock, weather, bots and loadout, then presses Start match. Click to deploy, or press A on a controller.
Playing solo? Create a room, set bots to fill 2, 4, 6 or 8 operators and start. Bots play every mode, objectives included.
Screens
Captured in the game on High graphics.
FAQ
Yes. It's free to play in your browser, with nothing to buy and no account to make.
On your first visit the game runs a short graphics check and picks Low, Medium or High for your computer. You can change the quality, render resolution and field of view, and turn on a frame-rate counter, in Settings → Graphics.
No. Diamond Spectre has no touch controls, so you need a computer with a keyboard and mouse or a controller.
Yes. Xbox- and PlayStation-style controllers work through the browser. Connect the pad, press a button with the game open, set up the room with the mouse, then press A or Menu on the deploy screen. Every button can be rebound in Settings → Controller. Controller play is new; if your pad misbehaves, please report it.
Up to eight operators per room, bots included. The host can fill the room to 2, 4, 6 or 8 operators with bots, or turn bots off for humans only. A friend who joins takes a bot's place.
There are no accounts. You pick a codename, which the other players in your room see. Your codename, settings and operator pick are saved in your own browser, and a room is deleted within ten minutes of everyone leaving.
Email bugs@diamondspectre.com and tell us:
A screenshot helps. During a match, hold Tab and press P to save a scorecard image, or use Screenshot on the results screen.
Press kit
Logos, wallpapers and a short description, free to use when you write about or share Diamond Spectre.
Diamond Spectre is an original tactical arena shooter that runs in a desktop web browser. Up to eight operators per room, friends, bots or both, fight across three arenas (Blacksite, Casino Stellar and Lantern Quarter) in seven modes, from Deathmatch and Capture the Flag to Clearance, where every elimination drops a Spy License that the other squad has to collect before the kill counts. Players lean, crouch and aim down sights, pick from thirteen weapons and six operators, and play with keyboard and mouse or a controller. It's free, with no install and no account: create a room, share its four-character code and play.
The logo is made for dark backgrounds: keep it blue on charcoal (or use the on-dark version on light pages), give it room, and don't stretch, recolor or re-type it.
Make a room, send the code, and drop in. Bots will hold the line until your friends arrive.
