Stardew Valley will get a live concert in 2024! Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons is an intimate and immersive live concert which will play the best songs from Stardew Valleys beautiful and mesmerising soundtrack! (Please… PlayIn The Deep Woods)
28.09.2023 - 08:49 / rockpapershotgun.com
There's been a certain amount of confusion and alarm over the announcement of Nakwon: Last Paradise, a dingy third-person zombie survival adventure with a big emphasis on stealth, from the creators of Dave the Diver, a bright, breezy uramaki roll of a game that mixes restaurant management with side-on undersea exploration. Is this kind of like when Prince of Persia went all edgelord with Two Thrones? Do I need to call Mintrocket's parents and ask for an intervention?
Thing is, if you take a step back from each game they're actually very similar. Both are fundamentally about scouring dangerous places for resources and ferrying them back to a safe area where you can sell them off. Both pit you, a mediocre human, against strange and unearthly creatures. Both are sort of about redeeming scenario concepts we all hate - in Dave the Diver's case, the water level, and in Nakwon's case, the stealth mission. See, this is practically a remake! Let's have a look at the trailer.
OK, that does seem rather grim, and there's nothing very Dave-the-Diverly about the developer's extensive bullet-pointed Steam description of Nakwon either. It's an almost STALKER-ish PvPvE experience set in Mintrocket's home country of Korea, and specifically Seoul, where a tiny enclave of human survivors fend off hordes of zombies.
As in Dave the Diver, it's a game of two halves. Each day, you can sneak into the city and gather resources, using shadows, crouching and thrown distractions to keep the undead off your back. Alternatively, you can spend the day resting and eating - the developers don't specify, but it sounds like there will be times when it's advisable to lie low, at the cost of depleting your food reserves. On returning from the infested city, you can sell what you've looted to pay the rent and raise your Citizen Grade, which decides which town privileges you'll get in this apparent meditation on overpopulation and "the ever-increasing cost of living"
"Seoul ranks seventh in population density, with lots of buildings tightly clustered, and every alley filled with parked cars," Mintrocket notes. "This city's densely packed elements provide the perfect environment for hiding and escaping from Zombies, which is why it has a high number of Survivors within and around it."
So how do Nakwon's undead stand, or rather, slump and lurch apart from their many equivalents in other survival games? Well, for one thing, they're "undefeatable" - the best you can do is knock them out for a brief period, and given the shortage of firearms in the game, you'll have to get up-close and personal. They mostly sleep at night, mostly, so it sounds like nocturnal expeditions will be safest, but I'm guessing there are benefits to venturing
Stardew Valley will get a live concert in 2024! Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons is an intimate and immersive live concert which will play the best songs from Stardew Valleys beautiful and mesmerising soundtrack! (Please… PlayIn The Deep Woods)
Developer Mintrocket has released a major update for fishing and restaurant management game Dave the Diver, adding a host of new content to the title. The update is quite comprehensive, bringing with it additional sub missions, as well as new types of creatures to catch.
Video game concerts are some of my favourite things in the world. Final Fantasy’s Distant Worlds, the NieR:Orchestra concerts, the Sonic Symphony - whatever particular series is your personal earworm, hearing music you’ve spent dozens or hours of hours listening to performed by a live orchestra can be incredibly moving and transformative. For those who feel that kind of connection with Stardew Valley, the engrossing farming-slash-romance-slash-dungeon-crawling sim is taking its OST on the road next year.
Fishing sim-cross-deep sea exploration game-cross-restaurant management gem Dave the Diver has reeled in a fairly expansive update, with new content updates, performance improvements and various bug fixes.
2023's best game about managing an underwater sushi restaurant is getting even better. The already ludicrously deep Dave the Diver got its first content update yesterday, bringing a surfeit of improvements to the undersea management sim and, crucially, introducing the spellbinding notion of the «Lobster Party».
It’s official — you’ll soon be able to experience the music of Stardew Valley in live orchestral form, as a real-life concert tour is set to kick off next year across the globe.
If you just can't get enough Stardew Valley in your life, here's a different way to indulge in its unrelenting life sim coziness: The Stardew Valley «Festival of Seasons» concert series, an international musical tour featuring a selection of music from the game performed by a chamber orchestra.
Spearfishing and sushi restaurant managing indie RPG Dave the Diver was my surprise delight from last year, and proper release saw everyone else at PC Gamer agreeing with me. It's also poised to get its first real content update since release this month, October, bringing greater diversity to some dives, a fresh new quality of life update, and some straight-up crustaceans.
Indie scuba diving and management sim Dave the Diver is getting its next major update “real soon”. Slated for release later this month, the update will bring a host of new content to the game, including a new zone and new species.
Dave the Diver is already one of the most delightful success stories of 2023, as the fishing game and restaurant management sim splashed its way up the Steam charts and won the hearts and minds of players everywhere, including many of us here at PCGamesN. Now, developer Mintrocket announces that a free update landing in mid October will introduce plenty of new features to explore, giving plenty of reasons to pull your diving gear back out once more.
If Dave the Diver is great (which it officially is, of course) then it stands to reason that more Dave the Diver will also be great. So prepare to be showered in additional greatness when Dave the Diver's first proper content updates arrives «real soon».
Microsoft believes that they will finalize their deal to acquire Activision Blizzard sometime next week.