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Indie hit Dave the Diver sells a million units

Big milestone for developer MINTROCKET

Marco Wutz

Indie hit Dave the Diver sells a million units
Indie hit Dave the Diver sells a million units /

Dave the Diver has been the talk of the town recently – the town in question being Steam, the most important PC gaming platform. It’s a lovely single-player adventure RPG made by indie developer MINTROCKET and gathered over 30,000 reviews on Steam while maintaining the “Overwhelmingly Positive” label.

It recently broke into the top ten most played games on Steam as well – in hindsight that was a pretty good hint that this would be the next milestone the title would reach: Dave the Diver has been sold over a million times, making it a massive success for the indie developer behind it.

They even made a cake to celebrate:

Sporting pixel art visuals, Dave the Diver is a mix of mechanics that’s hard to describe exactly: It’s full of fun ideas and systems from ocean exploration and fishing to restaurant management, farming, battling bosses, and even nourishing a tamagotchi. If anything, the game has a few too many systems that remain a little undercooked, but that’s a minor flaw in an otherwise very fresh offering.

The game fully launched on June 28, 2023, after being in Early Access for a while.

Dave the Diver is currently available at a 10% discount as an introductory offer, but that’ll end on July 13, 2023, so you better hurry if you’ve decided to take the dive.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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