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Players manage a restaurant and explore marine environments in this title launched in 2023. The game maintains a 96% positive rating across 47,981 reviews on Steam. This performance reflects the reception of its hybrid mechanics within the indie sector.
Overview
DAVE THE DIVER is a 2023 Adventure game developed by MINTROCKET and published by MINTROCKET. On Steam it has gathered 139,867 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer MINTROCKET with publisher MINTROCKET is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.9 million to 13.7 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, DAVE THE DIVER can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
139,867
Positive
97%
Steam appid
1868140
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
16,210
Fresh snapshot · · 24h peak 16,210
Sales estimate
v1.05.9M to 13.7M
units (median: 9.8M)
≈ $67.1M to $156.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for DAVE THE DIVER at roughly 5.9 million to 13.7 million copies, with a median around 9.8 million, derived from its 139,867 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $111.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
54 observed days · window low $9.99Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-12.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.53 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 09:18 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DAVE THE DIVER sold?
- indielist estimates DAVE THE DIVER has sold between 5,874,414 and 13,706,966 units (median 9,790,690), derived from its 139,867 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed DAVE THE DIVER?
- DAVE THE DIVER was developed by MINTROCKET and published by MINTROCKET.
- Who published DAVE THE DIVER?
- DAVE THE DIVER was published by MINTROCKET, developed by MINTROCKET. See MINTROCKET's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was DAVE THE DIVER released?
- DAVE THE DIVER was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does DAVE THE DIVER have on Steam?
- DAVE THE DIVER has 139,867 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
- Is DAVE THE DIVER worth playing?
- Steam players rate DAVE THE DIVER 97% positive across 139,867 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like DAVE THE DIVER can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Dinkum, Little Witch in the Woods, Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition, Graveyard Keeper, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, MINTROCKET's other releases and MINTROCKET's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where DAVE THE DIVER sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same DAVE THE DIVER page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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- D
Dinkum
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- L
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- S
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
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Shared tags: Story Rich, Indie, Management
- G
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- M
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