Why do young people who can't swim fall in love with this diving game?

How much is the fire? Even though the official has announced that it will land on the Switch platform this year, I still can't wait to buy it on the Steam platform for 72 yuan to experience.

Several young people in the group who just bought it said that this game was too top, and when they came home from work, they played the game for 6 hours in a row.

This game, called "Dave the Diver", ended early access on June 28, 2023 and was officially released on Steam, and the current evaluation is "rave reviews".

The game design is actually not complicated, it can be summarized as pixel wind, diving, catching fish, treasure hunting, expedition, and then running a sushi restaurant with the caught seafood.

But in fact, there are many more elements of the game than that.

For example, when the player gets the phone, the NPC will add a variety of apps to your phone, including the app of the marine research organization, the ocean card collection app, and even an app for social platforms, which requires you to attract fans and collect likes with the food of the sea sushi restaurant.

There are also a variety of diving equipment and weapons in the game, such as thrusters, mines, guns and various harpoons, etc., players can build their own diving equipment according to their preferences.

Diving is the biggest point of play, and the game is set to dive twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, and in the evening to run a sushi restaurant.

When the player is underwater, the oxygen tank will continue to drop, and the oxygen tank is also the player's health volume, if you are attacked by an aggressive (red triangle) fish, your oxygen will plummet, and once the oxygen level does not rise to the surface before the oxygen level reaches zero, it will be over.

However, the escape pod will be randomly brushed out of the water, and you can directly return to the surface after holding down the reading strip.

I think that's where the most interesting design of the game is.

Speaking of myself, I really like the bottom of the adventure game, but the amount of oxygen will limit my movement time and range, because once the oxygen runs out, then your diving achievements are basically gone. This required me to balance the pros and cons, when to keep diving and when to stop. A few times when I got to the escape pod, I had only 2 oxygen left.

However, when the movement speed increases and the oxygen pack capacity is upgraded, there is not much lack of oxygen.

Another highlight of the game is the sushi restaurant, which can be regarded as a business simulation game alone.

You'll need to develop new menus based on the seafood you catch during the day, recruit all kinds of staff with specialties, decorate your shop, and then serve tea to customers.

The money earned at night can be used to upgrade your diving equipment or buy props during the day, and players who like business simulation games will love to play.

Overall, the experience of the game in the early stage is still very good, and new NPCs will appear every day, and then lead to some new gameplay and plot. But in the later stages of playing, even the best games will inevitably have a sense of repetition.

For the average player, Dave the Diver supports 50-60 hours of perfect gameplay, which is more than enough.

If you happen to be a thinking player, playing Dave the Diver will also make you think more deeply about people and nature, such as "What is human being in front of the sea?" This kind of question, the development team gave more or less some answers in the game.

And behind "Dave Diver", there is an even more poignant story.

The protagonist of the story, also named Dave Shaw, was born in Australia in 1954 and was a civil aviation pilot before falling in love with diving.

On vacation, Dave took his son Steven out on a trip, was dived by his son Amway, and fell in love with the sport.

But in a later deep-sea dive, due to the entanglement of cables, Dave died at a depth of 200 meters.

About Dave's diving operation, a documentary called "Dave Never Returns" chronicles the entire operation in detail.

Dave's story was not only adapted into a movie, but also the game Dave the Diver that we gave you today at Amway.

Life is not a game, and there is no chance to do it again after Game Over, so please always put safety first in any event.