Caveblazers

Caveblazers

Fair · Roguelike · 2017

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
35.4h
Value
$0.28/hr
Reviews
85% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
7% of players unlock the ending achievement on a 35.4-hour game.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
35.4h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
98.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.28
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
4,548 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB. Windows only.

Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
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

Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.28/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length35 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 618 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
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

The lowest price on record is $0.79, set in June 2024. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 75 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 35 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Downwell ($2.99, scores 88) outscores it, and so does Neon Abyss ($19.99, scores 69). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

1 of the 618 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 526 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 35.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 98, 2.8 times as much.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

76% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

44 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 10:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Caveblazers - Brutal, Fast and Addictive in All the Right Ways 🎮 Introduction Caveblazers is the kind of roguelike that looks simple during the first few minutes, but quickly reveals a surprising amount of depth. You enter the cave, start exploring, and soon realize that a single mistake can end an otherwise great run. The first impression is straightforward and accessible, but the fast combat, exploration, and...
Tr-3|WendrexRecommendedafter 2.0hSep 2026Read on Steam
for some reason i still find myself jumping into this game nearly everyday even if its just to kill a few minutes or sinking a couple hours in its always fun and i don't think ill ever stop playing this one.
Way$idERecommendedafter 445hAug 2026Read on Steam
roughly 40 hours on a different account and 185 on this one and i've still only managed to get to the true final boss 3 times :(
holybookofwangRecommendedafter 185hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Caveblazers scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/452060/caveblazers
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperDeadpan Games
PublisherYogscast Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Achievements21