The Cave
Fair · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.26/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 2,939
- Critics
- 68 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 19% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.6h
- To 100%
- 13.9h 3.0x the story
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 June 2019
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
46% start to 2% 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 71 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. On the same math Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken ($4.99, scores 58) and Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about The Cave
68 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 390 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 325 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
4.6 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
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
please make the Cave 2. we are all waiting for it. you guys make amazing games, but this ones exceptional.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Definitely recommend if you're looking for something slower paced with interesting puzzles and plenty of dark humor. The art, narration, and stories in this game are all amazing. In some ways it's a little frustrating that the game requires you to do multiple playthroughs but the extra content you get each time is worth it. It's also fun to challenge yourself to do some sections faster and the achievements add extra...
There are moments where you can see Ron Gilbert's A-game coming through in the writing, but the stiff platforming, backtracking, lack of an inventory screen, fall damage and time-wasting puzzles make the game a chore. The single autosave save slot is coupled with an autosave that is more than happy to roll you back 15 to 20 minutes at a time. The general performance issues such as the jerky ass animations and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Assemble your team of three from seven unlikely adventurers, then descend into the mysterious depths to explore The Cave!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB GeForce 8800, Radeon 3850, or Intel HD 2000 Graphics, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
The Cave scores 53/100 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/221810/the-caveReviews 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.