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Cave Digger 2 Dig Harder

VRKiwi · 2022-09-08

SteamPlayStation StoreAmazon

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Sep 08, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 21, 2023 (PlayStation VR2), Feb 21, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Feb 21, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Sep 08, 2022 (SteamVR), Sep 08, 2022 (Oculus VR)

Go on a mysterious journey in the wildlands in this 1-4-player VR action-adventure game inspired by Western, Dieselpunk and Lovecraftian themes. Explore old mines, nautical caves and ruins of ancient civs to unravel the secrets of the valleys. But beware! Best to keep a 6-shooter close just in case.

85%
positive of 130 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
54/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
3.44★
PlayStation Store rating (243 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$15.99
steam price (US)

The valleys have their mysteries and they hide them well. Step by step the player follows the same path where a great explorer has once wandered. Who is this hardy explorer? Why did he come to these valleys? And where is he now? The answers to these and more lie in the depths of the valleys. The story has multiple endings, each revealing a different side of it. Find the scattered comic pages to a tale of greed, eldritch power, and secrets beyond space and time. Who the wanderer is and why he did what he did in the valleys become clear in the end, but is it really the end?(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 54% of 15,100 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.6k–5.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 130 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2026-04-12) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $15.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120212026Week of 2021-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$1.592021-09-142026-08-162021-09-14 — best price $9.992022-09-12 — best price $24.992022-11-07 — best price $19.992022-11-22 — best price $19.992022-12-13 — best price $17.492023-01-06 — best price $24.992023-03-16 — best price $16.742023-03-24 — best price $24.992023-04-21 — best price $16.242023-05-23 — best price $24.992023-07-31 — best price $12.492023-11-03 — best price $24.992023-11-22 — best price $12.492023-12-04 — best price $12.492023-12-15 — best price $12.502024-01-04 — best price $24.992024-03-21 — best price $24.992024-06-27 — best price $12.492024-12-04 — best price $24.992025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-03-20 — best price $15.992025-10-01 — best price $3.992025-11-27 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $15.992026-03-19 — best price $7.992026-04-19 — best price $15.992026-08-09 — best price $7.992026-08-16 — best price $15.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
67.4%
earned "Scrooger"
3.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Thai

Player tags

VRFPSCuteLootShooterWesternComic BookRogue-liteAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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