DAVE THE DIVER

 PC
Metascore
90

Universal acclaim - based on 44 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 44
  3. Negative: 0 out of 44
  1. Kotaku
    Jul 19, 2023
    Dave The Diver very much deserves the enormous success it’s received in its first month, selling over a million copies, and hopefully making developers Mintrocket enormously rich. They’ve created something really special, an RPG-meets-Diner Dash-meets gentle SCUBA sim, that manages to feel utterly crammed to the gills with things to do, yet joyfully relaxing to play.
  2. Polygon
    Jun 29, 2023
    What makes Dave the Diver work so well is wanting to see what comes next. In another game that just tacked on mechanics and plot devices with no plan, it could feel like the padding around a threadbare premise. But Dave’s kitchen sink approach somehow feels like a perfectly logical, if absurd, escalation — like a Tim Robinson sketch in game form. It’s a teetering pile of mechanics and minigames that never gets around to collapsing because the balancing act is just too much fun. [Polygon Recommends]

Awards & Rankings

8
#8 Best PC Game of 2023
21
#21 Most Discussed PC Game of 2023

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User Score
7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 226 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 143 out of 226
  2. Mixed: 34 out of 226
  3. Negative: 49 out of 226
  1. Cartoofel
    Jul 2, 2023
    7
    ---{ Graphics }---
    ☐ You forget what reality is
    ☐ Beautiful ✅ Nice ☐ Will do ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{    ---{ Graphics }---
    ☐ You forget what reality is
    ☐ Beautiful
    ✅ Nice
    ☐ Will do
    ☐ Bad
    ☐ Don‘t look too long at it
    ☐ MS-DOS

    ---{ Gameplay }---
    ☐ Very good
    ✅ Good
    ☐ It's just gameplay
    ☐ Mehh
    ☐ Watch paint dry instead
    ☐ Just don't

    ---{ Audio }---
    ☐ Eargasm
    ☐ Very good
    ✅ Good
    ☐ Not too bad
    ☐ Bad
    ☐ I'm now deaf

    ---{ Audience }---
    ✅ Kids
    ✅ Teens
    ✅ Adults
    ☐ Grandma

    ---{ PC Requirements }---
    ☐ Check if you can run paint
    ☐ Potato
    ✅ Decent
    ☐ Fast
    ☐ Rich boi
    ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

    ---{ Difficulty }---
    ☐ Just press 'W'
    ✅ Easy
    ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
    ☐ Significant brain usage
    ☐ Difficult
    ☐ Dark Souls

    ---{ Grind }---
    ☐ Nothing to grind
    ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
    ✅ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Much grind ☐ You'll need a second live for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ✅ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ✅ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ I would pay double ✅ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ✅ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ Embraced the Bugs ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ✅ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10    … Full Review »
  2. Spyan
    Jul 4, 2023
    5
    Reminds me a lot of Dredge : a grindy, merely semi-ok phone game with repetive game loops that will keep you enternained for 3 days before youReminds me a lot of Dredge : a grindy, merely semi-ok phone game with repetive game loops that will keep you enternained for 3 days before you give up and uninstal. Not much incentive to finish the game. A mish mash of popular mechanics from ten other games that gets old pretty fast. Just like dredge : nothing to write home about and will be forgotten in about a monthg after its release. Thank god it's cheap, but it still might be a little too expensive for what you get. This isn't worth twenty bucks.… Full Review »
  3. Neoptolemus0925
    Jul 2, 2023
    10
    NEXON does not have the best reputation, but for this once, they deserve credit for creating the MINTROCKET to support the development teamNEXON does not have the best reputation, but for this once, they deserve credit for creating the MINTROCKET to support the development team behind this amazing game.… Full Review »
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