So, it turns out that Dave the Diver is really fucking good. I didn't really understand what I was in for, but I'd just wrapped up Dredge and my heart still longed for the sea. Between Gabe freaking out over it, a relatively rare occurrence, and the Overwhelmingly Positive it's maintained on Steam I grabbed it and streamed it for a few hours on Friday if you want to see. You know? Kinda hang out asynchronously. I should warn you that you're probably gonna end up buying it. Just, you know… stick that in your SD slot.

Getting and keeping an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam is a heavy lift. I don't always like things that Steam says I should like. They had a real hard dick for Ark, and I'm not sure that's even a game. There is a subset of masochists who think that if a game hurts them like dad did that's a plus. They want to trauma-bond with their leisure software. I don't have that issue.

Dave the Diver, now, it's sort of the complete package. At this chronojuncture, about seven hours in, it's:

1. A survival diving game
2. A restaurant management sim
3. An adventure game
4. Something like an RPG
5. A farming thing kinda? For fish?

I also have an app on my phone - the phone my character has in the game - that unlocks cards whenever I catch a fish. They look like Pokeyman cards, but you cannot battle with them. You can't war over shimmering coral. Another thing: You can't meet that special fish and settle down. So far, these are the game's only failings - but they're big ones. Not deal-breakers, though. Deal-benders, certainly. I'll keep an eye on the patch notes.

(CW)TB out.