Dave the Diver's subsequent DLC actually modifications issues up: you’ll be able to freely discover the brand new village in actual time, full quests to win over locals, and your restaurant doesn't serve sushi
I like Dave the Diver, however I have not been again to it since 2023, regardless of a number of content material packs and updates it is acquired over the previous few years. However the upcoming DLC goes to have me racing again to play it once more. It is referred to as Within the Jungle, and it isn’t simply including extra Dave the Diver to the Dave the Diver—it is doing one thing utterly new.
The DLC is ready in a brand new location, a village in a jungle beside a freshwater lake. The truth that it is freshwater is fascinating: you do not make sushi from that type of fish, so you have received a brand new kind of restaurant to run. Welcome to Bancho Grill!
What’s much more fascinating is the break from the usual Dave the Diver method. Sure, you continue to dive, catch fish, and battle bosses, however the village is a spot you’ll be able to freely stroll round, as if Dave is visiting Stardew Valley. As an alternative of the times being damaged up into morning, afternoon, and evening segments, as within the base sport, the island takes place in real-time, supplying you with the liberty to handle your schedule as you fish, socialize, and work on the grill. You may even discover with Dave’s associates, like Cobra, following you round.
Plus, it is offered in a brand new isometric view as you discover, collect assets like native fruit or minerals, get to know the locals, and full quests for them to achieve their favor. As they heat as much as you, they will begin visiting your restaurant, so you are not simply making associates, you are gaining patrons for the grill.
Check out In The Jungle in motion, beginning at about 2:45 within the Dev Dive video under:
New recipes and fearsome new fishy foes like piranha, electrical eels, and crocodiles, means Dave’s additionally received a brand new device, the Jungle Gun, which may fireplace nets or act as a shotgun or sniper rifle as wanted when you’re harvesting the lake for brand spanking new substances. And naturally you’ll be able to anticipate some new minigames: the trailer exhibits one the place you knock coconuts out of a tree with a stick, and one other Rock Band-ish one the place you play a guitar.
The restaurant, too, is a change of tempo from the bottom sport, as a result of as an alternative of simply shifting horizontally forwards and backwards throughout the bar to serve dishes, you’ll be able to stroll in all instructions to ship meals and drinks to tables.
This all appears fairly nice, and with this new system the place you’ll be able to freely discover, handle your actions in actual time, and get to know the villagers, it virtually makes me want the bottom sport had been constructed like this all alongside! Whereas it is harking back to Stardew Valley in some methods, do not anticipate to sink in fairly as deeply: Mintrocket says the DLC will take about 10 hours to finish.