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Cave Quest cover art

Cave Quest

MD Studio · 2020-01-12

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 12, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Play a thrilling Match3 game! Match gems of the same kind to destroy them and to get bonuses and power-ups.

Cave Quest is an Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2020, priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (93% of 104 reviews).

1
playing now
93%
positive of 104 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 2.1k–4.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 104 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2022-06-01) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 10 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520202025Week of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
31Jan 2020Aug 2025Jan 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Jan 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2021 — avg 2 · peak 5May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Sep 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2022 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2022 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2023 — avg 2 · peak 5Jun 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Sep 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Mar 2024 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Jul 2024 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Aug 2025 — avg 1 · peak 5
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$11.84$2.442015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $6.952015-04-20 — best price $11.842015-05-18 — best price $8.492016-11-01 — best price $6.992017-01-02 — best price $6.992017-03-06 — best price $6.992018-04-09 — best price $3.492019-06-01 — best price $6.992020-03-15 — best price $4.992020-07-28 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-03-03 — best price $4.992021-07-29 — best price $4.992021-12-01 — best price $3.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-04-29 — best price $4.992022-07-21 — best price $3.742022-10-10 — best price $2.442023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-03-16 — best price $3.492023-06-29 — best price $5.592023-09-04 — best price $4.192023-11-21 — best price $3.492023-12-21 — best price $3.142024-03-05 — best price $9.992024-05-31 — best price $6.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-09-20 — best price $6.992024-12-13 — best price $5.592025-01-20 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $6.992025-04-14 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-12-01 — best price $9.992026-04-10 — best price $4.892026-08-28 — best price $4.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

18 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil…

Player tags

2DCuteSnowCasualPuzzleMatch 3MysteryColorfulRelaxingAdventure

Census log

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

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