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Crystal Caves cover art

Crystal Caves

Apogee Software · Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 07, 2014 (Mac), 1994 (DOS), Aug 07, 2014 (Linux), Aug 07, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Enter an underground world of treasures and traps in Crystal Caves, a colorful EGA game that rivals any commercial game with its arcade quality, puzzles and graphics. As Mylo Steamwitz, enter cave after cave of adventure, gathering teasures and evading countless hazards.

87%
positive of 127 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)
Crystal Caves is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Apogee Software for IBM PC compatibles. The game is divided into three episodes with the first distributed as shareware and the other two available for purchase. Designer Frank Maddin said the method worked "pretty well" for the time. Crystal Caves was inspired by the 1982 game Miner 2049er for Atari 8-bit computers.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 25,734 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 127 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.89-82%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at GOG (2022-06-06) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 47 of 72 observed days · $0.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$0.492015-01-012026-10-092015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-06-10 — best price $5.992015-08-08 — best price $39.992015-11-24 — best price $1.992016-11-06 — best price $2.392018-04-02 — best price $1.192019-02-11 — best price $4.992020-03-25 — best price $4.492020-05-24 — best price $4.492020-06-22 — best price $5.992021-02-15 — best price $4.992022-01-24 — best price $1.242022-04-21 — best price $1.992022-08-22 — best price $0.492022-11-22 — best price $0.492023-01-20 — best price $0.492023-05-25 — best price $0.492023-08-28 — best price $0.492023-11-21 — best price $0.492024-01-16 — best price $4.992024-04-04 — best price $4.992024-06-19 — best price $1.492024-09-25 — best price $1.342024-11-26 — best price $0.842025-02-13 — best price $0.842025-04-10 — best price $0.842025-06-18 — best price $0.842025-08-23 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-24 — best price $3.742026-02-12 — best price $0.842026-04-03 — best price $4.992026-05-15 — best price $0.842026-06-25 — best price $0.842026-08-25 — best price $0.892026-09-22 — best price $4.992026-09-30 — best price $0.892026-10-08 — best price $0.892026-10-09 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

377142026-07-11 — 26 pageviews2026-07-14 — 17 pageviews2026-07-17 — 36 pageviews2026-07-20 — 36 pageviews2026-07-23 — 29 pageviews2026-07-26 — 21 pageviews2026-07-29 — 24 pageviews2026-08-01 — 18 pageviews2026-08-04 — 31 pageviews2026-08-07 — 15 pageviews2026-08-10 — 33 pageviews2026-08-13 — 34 pageviews2026-08-16 — 24 pageviews2026-08-19 — 19 pageviews2026-08-22 — 35 pageviews2026-08-25 — 24 pageviews2026-08-28 — 23 pageviews2026-08-31 — 16 pageviews2026-09-03 — 24 pageviews2026-09-06 — 33 pageviews2026-09-09 — 22 pageviews2026-09-12 — 15 pageviews2026-09-15 — 26 pageviews2026-09-18 — 22 pageviews2026-09-21 — 15 pageviews2026-09-24 — 19 pageviews2026-09-27 — 17 pageviews2026-09-30 — 16 pageviews2026-10-03 — 16 pageviews2026-10-06 — 25 pageviews2026-10-08 — 17 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRetro1990'sActionClassicPlatformer

Census log

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

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