{"id":965936,"date":"2023-07-17T07:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinfinite.net\/?p=965936"},"modified":"2023-07-17T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:46:10","slug":"black-mirror-creator-is-obsessed-with-steams-latest-diving-sim-hit-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinfinite.net\/news\/black-mirror-creator-is-obsessed-with-steams-latest-diving-sim-hit-as-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Black Mirror’s Creator Is Obsessed With Steam’s Latest Diving Sim Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since its release late last month, Dave the Diver<\/a> has been making waves in the gaming sphere. It’s a mishmash of the most popular game genres: it’s a farming sim with diving elements, complete with a dash of Cooking Mama, Instagram for cooks, and WarioWare-style mini-games where you catch fish and chop them up to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re not the only ones who have been utterly obsessed with MintRocket’s latest hit, though; in an article published by The Guardian<\/a>, Black Mirror creator and lead writer Charlie Brooker revealed his cultural highlights of 2023, and wouldn’t you know it, Dave the Diver’s on his list too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“This is a game where, during the day, you dive down into a lagoon to harpoon or catch fish and collect seaweed. Then, at night, you run a sushi restaurant: you create recipes and serve them. I\u2019ve done some form of salt-encrusted shark-fin sushi \u2013 a lot of this stuff sounds inedible. But it\u2019s weirdly meditative: it\u2019s a strangely comforting, old-school piece, which I found extremely addictive and soothing. And we can all do with that in this day and age.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s particularly funny, especially considering that the rest of the items on Brooker’s list are considerably less silly than this little video game with over-the-top cutscenes of chefs and food inspectors falling over themselves eating good sushi. His list includes the podcast Nothing Is Real, as well as the documentary Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave the Diver has been out for a few weeks at this point, but there’s still plenty of content to look forward to as the story expands, and more fish and regions get added to the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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