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Cave Crawler cover art

Cave Crawler

Evan Youssef · 2022-01-23

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 23, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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

95%
positive of 3.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 84 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (853 reviews).
  • · Top 15% of 15,649 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2024-01-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
80980920222026Week of 2022-01-01: 731 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 809 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 216 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

7
achievements tracked
91.7%
earned "Beat the Tutorial"
46.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,28562%7

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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