Profile updated
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 133,203 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.6 million to 13.1 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
133,203
Positive
97%
Steam appid
1868140
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.05.6M to 13.1M
units (median: 9.3M)
≈ $63.9M to $149.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for DAVE THE DIVER at roughly 5.6 million to 13.1 million copies, with a median around 9.3 million, derived from its 133,203 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $106.5M 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
90d · low $10.77Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.77 to $19.99, averaging $18.94 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.77 on 2026-05-06.
Synthetic series for demo. Real ITAD price history loads after Day 3 ingest.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.90 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Live prices from public feeds, cheapest first. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Tags
Pixel GraphicsCasualManagementAdventureRelaxingExplorationFishingRPGUnderwaterSimulationSingleplayerFarming SimRogue-liteStory Rich2DCraftingFunnyAgricultureActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DAVE THE DIVER sold?
- indielist estimates DAVE THE DIVER has sold between 5,594,526 and 13,053,894 units (median 9,324,210), derived from its 133,203 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 133,203 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DAVE THE DIVER sold?
- indielist estimates DAVE THE DIVER has sold between 5,594,526 and 13,053,894 units (median 9,324,210), derived from its 133,203 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 133,203 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like DAVE THE DIVER can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as DREDGE, Subnautica, 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.
You might also like
Powered by AI similarity (1024-dim BGE embeddings).
