BLUE HOLE × SUSHI IZAKAYA · FAN COMPANION
Three years old, one DLC deeper, and about to flood with mobile divers.
🏆 Main story 25-30h·💯 100% 45-55h
Community logs cluster around 50h for a full clear; includes the Jellyfish DLC. Mobile edition progress not counted.
Overwhelmingly Positive ·161,045 reviews · 97% positive
“This game took about 50 hours to 100%. It has its problems with recipe-unlock pacing, but that's a 50-hour game that kept me diving.” — Steam review, paraphrased
Steam →Official store description:
"Explore the mysterious Blue Hole with Dave, catch fish by day, and run a sushi restaurant by night. An adventure mystery mix of diving, restaurant management and boss fights."
Dave is a diver; Duff runs the foundry; Bancho rules the kitchen. Mornings you spearfish the ever-stranger Blue Hole, evenings you turn the catch into a growing sushi empire — and between services, the hole's mystery (the Sea People, the murals, the thing at the bottom) keeps pulling you deeper. 2023's breakout cozy hit by MINTROCKET, still patched monthly in 2026, now with the In the Jungle DLC (July 2026) and a mobile edition announced August 19.
"I came for the sushi. I stayed for the hole." — Steam review, 3 years running
The announcement thread split in two: welcome camp (sushi on the subway!) vs purist camp (this game belongs to a couch and a three-hour evening). One point of consensus: the mobile wave will be the biggest influx of new Daves ever — veterans built a spontaneous "top 20 newbie questions" thread, and our Beginner Guide was written straight off it.
The Jungle DLC quietly rebased some fish prices and staff wages — every 2023 pricing table is now wrong. The data crew ran two-week before/after ledgers: mid-tier fish +12% average, staff wages -8% (better value now). The Restaurant page is rewritten on the post-DLC numbers.
Community folklore: tap the wasabi hammer three times at the pass during rush hour and table turnover rises. A 30-player controlled test ran two weeks: no effect. The argument continues anyway — half the testers insist "my mood objectively improved." Superstition survives data; we archive it on the Restaurant page under "cute but useless".
The day loop, oxygen, five newbie mistakes — mobile players start here.
Every species by depth and hour, plus "what the menu actually wants".
Harpoon tree, the gun roster, gear, community tiers.
Post-DLC pricing math, staff, seasonings, wasabi folklore.
Full island map: river routes, new fish and bosses, achievements.
PC differences, controls, double-dip advice — wave station one.