Mobile players who’ve been eyeing Dave the Diver can now get in line, with pre-registration for the sport open on iOS and Android. Developer Mintrocket first announced the mobile version earlier this month during a Dev Dive vlog, and that is the subsequent step before the Blue Hole surfaces on phones.
For anyone who has in some way missed it, Dave the Diver is the award-winning genre mashup where you spend your days diving the Blue Hole to harpoon fish and haul up loot, then run a sushi restaurant by night with the day’s catch. The diving carries “roguelike” stakes, since running out of oxygen means leaving whatever you collected at the underside of the ocean. Lose the air, lose the haul. There are greater than 200 species to find, the writing is stuffed with in-jokes and spoofs, and the pixel-and-3D art gives the world a particular look. That combination built a large following on other platforms before this mobile move.
The mobile version doesn’t have a firm launch date yet, but pre-registration is open now on each the App Store and Google Play. It is an element of a busy stretch for Mintrocket, too. The identical Dev Dive that confirmed the mobile port also revealed Godzilla Defense Force: X, a separate Mintrocket mobile game due out in 2027.