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Game of the week: Dave the Diver's blend of the fixed and the procedural is a recipe for success

Mixtape.

Daybreak with a golden sunrise in Dave the Diver, a ship bobs on the water.
Image credit: Mintrocket

Years back I spent a happy afternoon in No Man's Sky just stood on a single spot. This is ridiculous, I know: No Man's Sky's selling point is the moment you launch yourself from a planet's surface, up into space, through the twisting ether and then down onto the surface of another planet without taking a breath. It's a game about movement, and about leaving a place to know that you'll probably never return to it.

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