Now, by catching valuable fish and serving them as freshly made sushi in the evening, Dave must lift this restaurant and help the locals with a variety of tasks, including perhaps discovering a secret civilisation at the bottom of the ocean. You're a free diver, a spearfisherman who suddenly gets the opportunity to take over a dilapidated sushi restaurant on the edge of a local attraction called 'The Blue Hole', a lagoon where the layout and the endemic flora and fauna change every day.
Now, it would be unfair to give Stardew Valley all the credit for kickstarting the modern 'lifesim' genre, but we can say, in part, that it was the launch of this game, the critical acclaim in the press and the high sales figures that reminded consumers, and most importantly developers, that there was a scam in creating this kind of experience.ĭave the Diver is not Stardew Valley, and indeed many of the mechanics and structures are fundamentally different, but the feeling of managing a life, managing a business, is the same, and there is almost no other game, except possibly Kynseed, that comes close to emulating that quality.
