Cave Crawler
Fair · Short indie · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.6h 1.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.32/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 585 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
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About the game
Cave Crawler is a short horror game where you pilot a drone into a cave and discover something horrible.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD 7770 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti or equivalent, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
32 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dollmare ($4.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Psalm 5:9-13 ($3.99, scores 45).
More about Cave Crawler
This site sampled 384 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 693 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 92 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 522 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 95 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.6 hours; clearing it takes 1, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
What players say
Short and sweet horror experience that does something entirely unique to the genre. Very much worth both the time and price. Looking forward to what the developer comes up with next!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Cave Crawler scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2282480/cave-crawlerReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.