Dave Dave Dave

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Dave Dave Dave is a Metroidvania platformer. You play as Dave, a bouncy little cyan figure whose mouth is locked in a perpetual scream, because that is all I can offer him. I can give him no comfort from the inevitable doom the traps up ahead present him. There is nothing I can do to prevent his imminent demise. Dave is a cog in the machine of his own destruction, propelling it forward, while also crushing himself beneath its weight, only to re-emerge to hurl himself upon the machine over and over and over again. This is not, and was never, a game for Dave. This is an exercise in futility, his own boulder rolling up an impossible hill, forced to confront the impossible, because the only alternative is nothing at all. As a metroidvania platformer, the levels of Dave Dave Dave are intricate mazes, filled with traps, locked doors, keys, and collectibles. Players are encouraged to collect the collectibles, and to explore the map around them for hidden collectibles. These collectibles often involve searching in previously hidden areas, or behind extra traps. Checkpoints allow players a certain degree of freedom to explore, a freedom which Dave himself does not and cannot have, nor can…

depressing as ♥♥♥♥

I liked and really really hated this game. 9/10. We will be here for a sequel/successor

Dave Dave Dave is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is a shockingly badly done 4-bit style puzzle platformer, you're stuck in a dungeon, collect diamonds and try to escape. Trying to escape was the first instinct that came to my mind when I played this and the solution was to uninstall the game and then throw my PC in the trash to make sure this never happened to me again. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. The graphics here are particularly awful, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. It's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, …

awesome lets me now when you will add another update!