Cave Crawler

Cave Crawler

Worth it · Action · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
0.2h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
95% positive
Length
0.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
95%
3,122 reviews, as of Sep 24
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated, 72 MB of storage. Windows only.

Cave Crawler is a short, 2D side-scrolling action platformer. Explore caves filled with interesting enemies and fun platforming challenges.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, 100 Aliens Cats (free, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Landfall Archives (free, scores 76).

0.2 hours to finish it, 0 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.

At 0.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

92% start to 26% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Cave Crawler scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 3,122 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1865440/cave-crawler
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 24.

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Details

DeveloperEvan Youssef
PublisherEvan Youssef
GenreAction
Released2022
Achievements7