I don't understand the hype. It's just a shallow diving minigame paired with a shallow food service minigame (no pun intended...) Gets repetitive quickly. They keep piling on mechanics, but that ends up feeling like bloat and doesn't enrich the core gameplay. The characters all have bland dialogue and act like rude teenagers. At best, this feels like something that would have been moderately impressive as a smartphone game ten years ago.

The Game Awards controversy shows how awful mainstream gaming coverage still is. Since Dave the Diver isn't an indie game, maybe MintRocket should have done some actual optimization. There's no support for high refresh rates and loading screens are frequent. 16GB of RAM is recommended according to the system requirements. Wtf?