Comparison

DAVE THE DIVER vs Number Nine

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

DAVE THE DIVER

Explore the ocean depths by day, catching fish and uncovering mysteries, then run a bustling sushi restaurant by night. This adventure, RPG, and management hybrid offers casual combat, resource gathering, and a charming narrative with a unique art style. A free trial is available before unlocking the full experience with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Underwater exploration and fishing
  • Sushi restaurant management
  • Casual combat and gathering
  • Rogue-like elements
  • Character-driven narrative
  • Unique 2D/3D art style
  • Minigames and side quests
Features
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*TRY BEFORE YOU BUY* Play the opening portion for free. A one-time purchase unlocks the full game. DLC expansions are available as separate in-app purchases. With 130,000+ reviews and a 96% Overwhelmingly Positive rating, Dave the Diver is coming to mobile. The mobile version is a full port of the original PC game. [An adventure, RPG, management hybrid] Explore and unravel the mysteries in the depths of the Blue Hole by day and run a successful exotic sushi restaurant by night. It’s easy to get hooked on the satisfying gameplay loop! [Casual combat and gathering gameplay with rogue-like elements] Dive into the ever-changing Blue Hole and use a harpoon and other weapons to catch fish and various creatures. Upgrade and forge equipment with collected resources and sushi restaurant profits to prepare for the dangers that lurk in the unknown. Running out of oxygen means leaving collected items and fish behind! [Eccentric characters with a lighthearted narrative] Quirky but lovable characters and a story full of in-jokes, spoofs, and other humorous scenes provide an approachable and enjoyable gameplay experience. [A beautiful sea environment with attractive 2D/3D Art] A combination of pixel and 3D graphics provides a stunning art style that showcases breathtaking underwater scenery. This oceanic adventure is set in the real marine environment of a Blue Hole filled with over 200 kinds of sea creatures. [Ample additional content to complement the main gameplay loop] Minigames, side quests, and multiple storylines provide many hours of entertainment and varied gameplay. [Supported Devices] This game requires a device with 6GB of RAM or more. iPhone: iPhone 12 Pro / 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro / 13 Pro Max, iPhone 14 / 14 Plus / 14 Pro / 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15 / 15 Plus / 15 Pro / 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16 / 16 Plus / 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17 / 17 Plus / 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, or newer iPad: iPad (11th gen, 2025), iPad mini (7th gen, 2023), iPad Air (5th gen, 2022) / iPad Air (M2) / iPad Air (M3), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd gen, 2020), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th gen, 2020), or newer

About

Number Nine

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A story you receive, not read. Your estranged brother is dead. He has left you a house where the land gives up and becomes marsh, a war-surplus shortwave receiver, and nineteen years of listening logs kept in a hand that never once wavered. On the fourteenth of June his entries stop mid-sentence. Every night after it is blank. Tune the set. There is a station where none should be: a music box running down, and then a woman counting in groups of five, unhurried, as though she had every night in the world and meant to spend them one at a time. She has been counting for nineteen years. Tonight she says your name. SIX BROADCASTS One a night. The prose is the map. It turns, it mirrors, it goes down the cellar stairs and climbs back up them, and you turn the phone in your hands to follow it, because the room turned and not the typeface. Fifty locks stand between the first page and the last. None of them is a quiz, and none is answered by choosing the right option from a list. The house asks things of you and it asks fairly. Nothing it asks for is missing from the book. WHAT IT ASKS Patience, and something to write with. Some of these will hold you up for an evening. By the sixth broadcast you will be going back through notes you made in the first. Nothing is timed and nothing can be lost, so an evening spent stuck is an evening spent in the house. HER VOICE Recorded, not synthesised. A woman reading numbers in the register of a speaking clock, coming up out of shortwave static. Sound is atmosphere here and never information, so a reader in silence loses nothing but the dread. BROADCAST ONE IS FREE The whole first chapter, start to finish. No account, no trial clock. The other five unlock with one purchase, paid once, never a subscription. TONIGHT'S SIGNAL, FREE FOREVER Every night the station sends a new cryptogram, and every listener on earth gets the same one. She does not always send it the same way. A few minutes to break. Behind a year of them lies a dead man's log, 365 nights of it, in order and a night at a time: the year before Broadcast One, and how a patient man came to be sitting in that cellar. Keep a streak and you are reading a second story for nothing. No ads. No tracking. No account. No timers, no energy, no notifications. It honours the text size you have set, and it works with the aeroplane switch on. Headphones on. Lights off. One broadcast a night.

Screenshots

DAVE THE DIVER4 screens
Number Nine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: DAVE THE DIVER at 3 against Number Nine's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DAVE THE DIVER sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Number Nine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
DAVE THE DIVER versus Number Nine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDAVE THE DIVERNumber Nine
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (349 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings349 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size3.4 GB63 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMintrocketSimon Shih

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DAVE THE DIVER

One-time2
  • In the Jungle Content Pack$4.99
  • DAVE THE DIVER Full Version$9.99
1 purchases

Number Nine

One-time1
  • The Licence$5.99

Questions

Is DAVE THE DIVER free?
DAVE THE DIVER is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Number Nine free?
Number Nine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DAVE THE DIVER or Number Nine have ads?
Neither DAVE THE DIVER nor Number Nine shows ads.

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