Deep sea exploration and restaurant management game Dave the Diver is still going deep: Developer Mintrocket says the game has now moved past 10 million copies sold across all platforms, while the In the Jungle expansion that came out in June has moved past one million sales of its own.
Dave the Diver was an "out-of-nowhere hit" when it arrived in 2023, earning a whopping 91% review score at PC Gamer—a site that does not give out many 90+ scores—and selling more than a million copies in just 10 days. A nomination at the 2023 Game Awards in the Best Indie Game category led to a small spot of controversy: Mintrocket is a division of Nexon, and so very much not an indie studio.
The overall impact seemed minimal, though, in part because Dave the Diver didn't win, but also because game director Jaeho Hwang h...
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