Mintrocket's Dave the Diver has surpassed 10 million copies sold across all platforms, the Nexon-owned Korean studio confirmed this week via its official social channels and a parallel Steam post. The milestone caps an unusual commercial trajectory for a hybrid of underwater hunting and sushi-restaurant gameplay.

The threshold was reached in August 2025, weeks before the September 17 rollout on iOS and Android. The studio attributes the most recent million units to its soft-launch period in China. The figure spans more than four years of cumulative sales, with the game having entered early access in October 2022.

What drove the late surge in sales?

The "In the Jungle" paid DLC acted as the largest commercial lever of the cycle. Released earlier in 2025, the jungle-themed expansion has itself moved more than one million copies, the studio said. Mintrocket marked the 10-million headline with a cover image styled after the Oasis album of the same name, leaning into the project's playful branding.

The September 17 mobile launch extends the game across what Mintrocket described as all current platforms. Dave the Diver is currently available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, macOS, and Windows via Steam and the Epic Games Store, alongside the new iOS and Android editions.

How concentrated are PC sales?

Third-party tracker Gamalytic estimates that as many as 7.2 million of the 10 million lifetime units have moved through Steam alone. By the same inference, Steam revenue is approaching the $100 million mark. Both numbers carry the usual caveats of external sales modeling and remain unofficial; Mintrocket has not disclosed platform-specific revenue of its own.

A roughly 70% share for a single storefront fits the long-tail PC segment. The commercial headline now sits in the breadth of platforms that converted soft-launch mobile audiences into the final million units. For studios benchmarking long-tail performance, the combination of a year-three paid expansion and a late mobile launch is the operative takeaway.

What does the franchise play look like?

Mintrocket has framed Dave the Diver as the seed of a broader IP rather than a one-off. The first concrete extension is Bancho The Chef, a spin-off culinary simulator with adventure elements that focuses on one of the main characters from the original game. Mintrocket has not published a release window, pricing structure, or platform list for the spin-off, and has not signaled whether Bancho The Chef will share its parent's live-ops roadmap or ship as a premium standalone.

That restraint leaves open the key questions for studios tracking the template: whether Bancho The Chef will follow the same multi-platform cadence that carried Dave the Diver past 10 million, and whether Mintrocket will pursue additional spin-offs through 2026.

Watch for Bancho The Chef's platform and timing announcement, which will set the pace of Mintrocket's 2026 IP roadmap and clarify whether the culinary spin-off repeats the multi-format distribution pattern that defined its predecessor.