DAVE THE DIVER Standard Edition

DAVE THE DIVER is MINTROCKET's oddly shaped hit: half exploration of an ever-changing undersea trench, half sushi restaurant management, and considerably better than that description makes it sound. Dave is an easygoing diver recruited by a friend who has opened a restaurant with no supply chain. By day you dive the Blue Hole, harpooning fish, gathering ingredients and running into ancient ruins, sea people and things that were not on the menu. By evening you plan the night's offerings, upgrade equipment, train staff and serve customers in a fast timed minigame. Between the two sit farming, weapon crafting, a photography side business and a steady drip of story that goes considerably stranger than the opening suggests. Single-player, with pixel art and hand-animated cutscenes. This is the full base game and the only single-key edition: the complete Blue Hole with its shifting layouts, the whole sushi restaurant management side, the farming, crafting and photography systems, and the full story through to its ending. The free crossover packs are included; the Steam listing called Deluxe Edition is a bundle of this game plus a separate extras item, not a standalone edition.