Spearfishing and sushi restaurant managing indie RPG Dave the Diver was my shock delight from final yr, and correct launch noticed everybody else at PC Gamer agreeing with me. It is also poised to get its first actual content material replace since launch this month, October, bringing higher range to some dives, a contemporary new high quality of life replace, and a few straight-up crustaceans.
The primary huge addition to Dave’s world are crabs and lobsters. These new shelled buddies would require you to take some traps down into the deeps to seize, so preserve a watch out for that. There will be a lobstery, crabby get together occasion to go along with them exhibiting up as nicely. Everybody likes to get crabs at a celebration.
A top quality of life characteristic coming with the crustaceans is in your farming. Proper now farming is a giant of a ache, requiring fixed visits, however sooner or later you can ask absolute bro Sammy to verify on it for you. You may additionally be capable to get an egg storage field in your chickens to forestall spoilage and a feed dispenser to maintain the cluckers fed.
A pair different new issues coming are expanded content material for the glacier space and night-time diving content material. The glacier’s earlier concentrate on story content material will get supplemented with a pair new quests. Night time-time diving will get extra attention-grabbing with the addition of latest species that seem solely at evening, whereas now there’s loads of species that present up each day and evening, so the selection to dive at evening will actually imply one thing.
Dave the Diver was a shock smash hit, pushing one million copies offered fairly fast. PC Gamer’s Robin Valentine stated it was “the sort of out-of-nowhere hit that makes gaming thrilling.” In the meantime our Chris Livingston gave it a stellar 91/100 evaluate: “I am routinely up taking part in till 2 am, even after 30 hours it is nonetheless throwing enjoyable and inventive new programs at me, and each time I play I am delighted, stunned, and totally charmed,” he stated.
The replace may also convey a brand new VIP buyer, a wandering service provider promoting new recipes and crops. There’ll even be a brand new telephone operator to name who may give you a run down of what is going on on across the blue gap that day.
You could find Dave the Diver on Steam for $20 US.
Sorry, yeah, the editors are telling me that everybody does not truly like to get crabs at a celebration. Going to must google this to determine what they imply.