The Famous Diver

In Brief

The Famous diver is a fairly short 2D side scrolling underwater scuba game with pixel graphics.

Introduction

The famous diver - is a game about a famous diver who sailed through his life a lot of underwater cities. He saw underwater predators and engaged with them in battle, and that is why our hero plunged into the water and went to the strongest underwater current, it is very fast and it is very difficult to stay in the same place. Your goal is to protect our main character from underwater bombs and predators while he swim to a certain point.

Reference accessed HERE 18th Feb 2020

The famous Diver is an 18 level side scrolling underwater divers game where you have to survive 18 levels traveling a specific distance starting at 50 meters for level one and increasing to over 160 meters in later levels. On your way you need to avoid the numerous underwater bombs and various carnivorous fish (4 types). While avoiding those collect star fish and extra lives. Movement is using either the WASD keys or the up, down, left or right arrow keys. You can return to the level selection screen by pressing the Esc key. There are plenty of lives to pick up to retain your maximum number of six lives. If you lose all your lives your star fish count is reduced to zero and you have to start from the beginning of the level you died on. There are indicators along the top of the screen that tell you how many lives you have, the number of star fish you have collected, the distance traveled from the length of the level and the level number. The graphics are retro pixel. You may want to mute the music as it does get very tedious.

I found the game initially quite entertaining, but the lack of any diversity in each of the levels apart from them becoming a little harder made the game quite boring after playing through several levels. For a unity program it's okay, but not the best. You can see Steam community reviews of the game HERE and a couple of in game videos HERE and HERE. We get the non Steam version that lacks achievements.

If you like underwater themed games you may also be interested in Abzu, Jaws Unleashed, Sunnautica, Soma, Song of the Deep, World of Diving, Depth, Roblox even GTAV, Hydrophobia, Bioshock and Tom Raider Underworld have swimming underwater areas

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If The Famous diver doesn't interest you, but you still want something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've recently updated the thread though 'some' of the links to older bundles are no longer active; however, most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

From now until Half-Life : Alyx is released sometime in March, every Half-life game is free to play on Steam HERE. They include, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Half-Life: Blue Shift and Team Fortress Classic

Indie Gala has some new games added to their free section; these include The Fan - an interactive photo fiction with real locations and actors. JASEM: Just Another Shooter - Do you need any reason to shoot your enemies in game? Because JASEM doesn't give you one - just you, your weapons, crazy beats and enemies. And you need to shoot every one of them, and it's up to you to make it the most hilarious and explosive way. Wastewalkers - a post apocalyptic top down open world adventure. Quake Champions Random - Quake Champions Random is an app for Randomize Custom Games in Quake Champions. Also Super Panda Adventures - a side scrolling platformer; you play as the brave panda-knight Fu, who is about to finish his training to become the new guardian of the Princess. At the same day of the big celebration party, some uninvited Robots show up to conquer the planet and take the Princess away in their Space Ships!.

Don't forget to check out the Epic game store for the latest freebie on offer HERE. The latest freebies from Epic include two games: Kingdom Come: Deliverance a first person story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. (a AAA game not suitable for children) and Aztec a unique hybrid of beat 'em up and turn-based strategy, set in the world of the Aztec Empire. Next Thursday 20th February we will be given Faeria a card based Strategic RPG with single player, online pvp and cooperative play. (you don't get the add on DLC).

The Eden Rising base game is also free on Steam. It's an open world, SP/Coop/MP Sci Fi tower defense third person RPG with crafting and survival elements. The latest Humble Choice (costing $12) is now live, with a choice of nine games from a list of 12 (Frostpunk + 1 DLC, Pathfinder: and Pathfinder: Kingmaker plus Frostpunk, Book of Demons, CryoFall, Okami HD, Eliza, SHENZHEN I/O, Project Warlock, The Hex, Warstone TD, Underhero, Night Call ), virtually every single game in the bundle if purchased separately apart from 'The Hex that costs £7.19) would virtually pay for the bundle if you purchased the games directly from Steam. Frostpunk and Pathfinder: Kingmaker are alone worth over £60/$75. All games are Steam work games. Plus there is a drm free game called 'Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1' that is an additional choice included for free. Don't forget to check out Delenns thread over in the Game Discussion forums for details of other free games and offers HERE. From now on I will occassionaly recommend a game worth checking out at the end of my reviews (not every giveaway). It may be on sale via Steam, or elsewhere, or may be a classic released anytime over the last 30 years. It will definitely be a game I've invested some time in myself and think is well worth checking out. My very first recommendation is for the game Barotrauma a 2D submarine game where you can play either single player or with friends to survive the under water sea on the ice moon Europa that circles Jupiter. I've only just bought this particular game, but its one that actually sent shivers down my spine when I first played it. It's still far from complete, but is looking good and the developers are dedicated; the legacy version was and may still be available for free, but the early access version that has been updated is available with a 34% discount until tomorrow afternoon via Steam. You can see the Barotrauma Wiki HERE, with more information HERE and HERE; it promises to be a big game once completed, with custom community content available.