Cave Story+
Fair · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 67% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9467% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.38/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 8,381
- Critics
- 83 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 17% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.94 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.3h
- To 100%
- 11.1h 1.8x the story
- Achievements
- 76
Price and sales
- Sales
- 63 on record
- Typical cut
- 34% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 June 2026
- Sale every
- 70d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 14 now
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 63 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 34 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $5.30 BANGER line 17 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 17 percent. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Environmental Station Alpha ($7.99, scores 60).
More about Cave Story+
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 561 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 505 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
my friend cant get past the first stage his name is @arthur_morgan_45 on tiktok and mario6632 (aka pickle rock) on IG, please DM him and tell him he sucks at the game
2 more reviews
wearing multiple dogs on my head makes the game lag tremendously, this is the price you pay for realistic water in cave story+!!
Do NOT get the Steam achievements. Worst mistake of my life. Anyways, cool game though I hated the game at first, but as I got better I began to have a love for this game and the large importance for indie games as a whole. This game isn't a cakewalk and will punish new players (probably why I hated it at first). I mean, most people on Steam never even got the true ending (had to look it up); the story on the...
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About the game
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 64MB RAM, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Cave Story+ scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/200900/cave-storyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.