MINTROCKET has confirmed that DAVE THE DIVER has passed 10 million units sold, a figure covering every platform the game has appeared on since it first surfaced in Steam Early Access back in October 2022. The studio marked the occasion with a short thank-you video posted to its YouTube channel on September 9.
The number comes with a claim attached that is arguably more interesting than the number itself. According to MINTROCKET, this is the first time a Korean-developed single-player packaged game has reached ten million sales. Korea's games industry has spent two decades built almost entirely around online service titles, free-to-play mobile and PC MMOs; a premium, one-and-done, single-player game clearing eight figures from that ecosystem is genuinely without precedent.
MINTROCKET is a subsidiary label of Nexon, which makes the milestone stranger still — DAVE THE DIVER is a boxed-product hit produced inside one of the largest free-to-play publishers in the world. The label was set up specifically to make things that did not fit the parent company's usual shape, and this is the payoff for that bet.
The road to ten million
What makes the figure notable is not a launch spike but the slope. DAVE THE DIVER has been climbing steadily for more than three years:
- 1 million — roughly two weeks after the 1.0 release, in July 2023
- 3 million — by early January 2024, about six months in
- 4 million — June 2024, at the one-year mark
- 5 million — late November 2024
- 10 million — September 2026
In other words, the game doubled its lifetime sales in the 21 months after most indie hits have finished selling. That is the part MINTROCKET is drawing attention to, and the studio credits three things: a steady stream of new content, a long platform rollout, and collaborations with other games' IP.
The platform ladder did a lot of work
The release history reads like a deliberate staircase rather than a launch:
- PC (Steam Early Access) — October 27, 2022
- PC (1.0) — June 28, 2023
- Nintendo Switch — October 26, 2023
- PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 — April 16, 2024
- Nintendo Switch 2 — November 6, 2025
- Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One — November 20, 2025
- iOS and Android — September 17, 2026
Each of those was a fresh audience arriving at a game that had already been polished and expanded by the previous wave. The Xbox version in particular landed three years after the PC launch, into a version of the game with several major content packs already folded in.
Crossovers and DLC kept it in the conversation
MINTROCKET has been unusually aggressive about collaborations for a single-player game. Over the past two years DAVE THE DIVER has hosted content built around Godzilla, SEGA's Like a Dragon series and the fishing horror game DREDGE — each one landing as a free or cheap content pack that gave lapsed players a reason to reinstall rather than a reason to feel milked.
The bigger swing was In the Jungle, a paid story expansion released in June 2026 that moved Dave out of the Blue Hole and into a freshwater lake and village setting. MINTROCKET says the expansion sold one million copies in roughly two months, which is a strong attach rate against a ten-million-unit base and explains why the studio has kept patching it: updates through August added village Spirits, a returning Giant Wild Boar boss, three new high-level Setah Forest monsters, Bull Sharks in the lake, and new insect jellies for Beetle Battle.
Phones are next, and the terms are unusually friendly
The last platform on the list arrives in eight days. The iOS and Android versions land September 17 as a $9.99 one-time purchase with no ads and no in-app purchases — a premium mobile release of the full game rather than a stripped-down or monetised adaptation, which for a Nexon-affiliated studio is a pointed choice.
If the mobile version performs anything like the console ports did, the ten-million figure will not stay current for long. Phones are also the platform where the game's structure makes the most immediate sense: a dive, a shift at the restaurant, done.
What it actually is, for the uninitiated
The reason DAVE THE DIVER sold ten million copies is that it is roughly four games stacked in a trench coat. By day you dive the Blue Hole, a procedurally reshuffled underwater map, harpooning and netting fish under a hard oxygen and cargo-weight limit. By night you run a sushi restaurant, setting menus and prices and personally serving customers. Around those two loops sit fish farming, a weapons and gear upgrade tree, a drone-based cargo system, a genuinely long story campaign, and a rotating cast of minigames that includes competitive insect fighting.
None of that should hold together. It does, and it has now outsold most of the AAA releases it shared a launch window with.
