2023's biggest sleeper hit Dave the Diver just got a hefty content update featuring auto farming, new missions, and the electrifying concept of a 'lobster party'

pcgamer.com:

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».

The update arrived yesterday, and although Mintrocket had already chatted a little about what it would bring ahead of time, we've now got the full patch notes, as well as the game itself, to pore through with a fine-tooth comb. 

We've got stuff like new sub-missions (get it?) in late-game areas, new creatures, and a new kind of special customer who will return to sell you goodies if you serve him delicious enough grub. Plus, Steam trading cards, which I will enjoy selling for a thruppence apiece on the Steam marketplace so that I might afford one-ten-thousandth of the questionable Snow Leopard gloves I've been coveting in Counter-Strike 2.

The thing that leaps out at me, though, is the new Auto Farming feature. Henceforward, players will be able to hire MC Sammy, that most reliable of men, to help you tend to chores on your farm. Despite my mixed feelings about this whole «industrial revolution» thing that's really harshed my vibe these last 200 years, I'm a big fan of any kind of automation in games like this. At some point, I get tired of having to do the hunting and gathering myself.

We've also got a whole suite of bug fixes spread across various parts of the game. I won't go into detail myself, but you can find the full patch notes below if there's a particularly nasty error you're running into that you want to see fixed.

Aside from that, well, Dave the Diver continues to be Dave the Diver, an excellent game