Dave The Diver took over my PC round Christmas in 2023. I discovered Mintrocket’s splendidly fascinating eating place supervisor/ocean explorer a pleasure to flipper across the depths of, struggling with giant fish, finding historic civilisations, after which returning to the outside to perform a little sushi waitering. I have truthfully no longer considered returning shortly, however the recent glance the devs have simply introduced at their upcoming Within the Jungle DLC has me very a lot pencilling one in.
Within the Jungle, as its title suggests, sees Dave, chefman Bancho and co head to a location with loads of bushes. Relatively than his loose roaming being in large part restricted to deep-sea delvage, the diver’ll have the ability to wander round a jungle village and surrounding woodland serving to out the locals in an array of Stardew Valley-esque techniques, together with knocking coconuts out of bushes and shredding riffs in a loveable on-the-nose Guitar Hero parody.
Lest you assume you might be staying dry, there is a giant jungle lake to overcome the depths of by way of struggling with the likes of crocodiles, piranhas, and eels. To take the ones out, there is a new jungle gun, which will transfer between firing nets, shotgunning, and sniper rifleing on cue. Along with the ones beasties, the lake’s house to a litany of freshwater fish which cannot be eaten uncooked. Cue a transfer from Bancho Sushi to Bancho Grill – that being the eating place the chef opens up within the jungle village. Relatively than serving a row of hungry people, Dave’ll be wandering between tables, including an additional problem to his plate-plopping gig.
Total, the DLC gives a a lot more freeform Davely divering enjoy, proper right down to the hours filling by way of in real-time, reasonably than days being segmented into morning, midday and night time. As of at this time, the growth stays and not using a concrete free up date, having been driven again into 2026 as of June this 12 months.
So, a variety of time to dive again into Dave’s unique journey and determine whether or not the crossover beasties like Godzilla are nonetheless ready within the depths someplace. To be truthful, you would assume in that individual case, he beast’d be sufficiently big to identify from afar, particularly if you happen to bellow one thing provocative like “Is that this an indie recreation?“
