Dave the Diver

Play it on: Switch, Windows, Mac
Current goal: Pour the perfect pint

Dave the Diver, the hit adventure game in which you dive for fish by day and run a sushi restaurant by night, intimately understands the satisfaction gained from unlocking new abilities. Swimming through its story steadily gives you cool new items and capabilities, like a gas cutter you can use to access otherwise unreachable areas, or new restaurant staff you can hire to help you run your booming business.

However, what’s really grabbed me is serving up draft beers to the hungry patrons of Bancho Sushi. Unlike the simpler green tea minigame, foam management is vital, and dare I say…an art? All those college years manning the keg have finally paid off.

With news out this week that studio MintRocket’s next project, Nakwon: Last Paradise, is quite the departure from Dave’s breezy oceanfront vibes, it does make me hold out hope you’ll be able to sling pints in its zombie apocalypse as well. — Eric Schulkin