Cave Story+ on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.

Cave Story+ is a platformer, metroidvania and indie game developed by Nicalis, Inc. and Studio Pixel and published by Nicalis and Inc..
Released on November 22nd 2011 is available in English on Windows and Linux.

It has received 7,612 reviews of which 7,078 were positive and 534 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *:Windows XP
  • Processor:Intel Core Solo
  • Memory:128 MB RAM
  • Graphics:64MB RAM
  • Hard Drive:200 MB HD space
Linux
  • OS:Ubuntu 10.04 and Newer
  • Processor:Intel Core Solo
  • Memory:128 MB RAM
  • Graphics:64MB RAM
  • Hard Drive:200 MB HD space

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Feb. 2025
This game is good, really good but the development for this version has been abandoned, as shown by the Mac version being broken by default, and missing features from the Switch release. If you don't mind not getting achievements, I recommend downloading "doukutsu-rs" on github, Its a faithful remake of Cave Story with all the upgrades from the switch version.
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Dec. 2024
I love this game to bits but just download the freeware version 20 years and still a classic, one of my personal favorites, but I say just download the freeware version instead, [url=https://www.cavestory.org/download/cave-story.php]preferably an NXEngine port for modern systems , for the reasons below: - this version adds updated graphics (including animated portraits and proper widescreen support) and two new music soundtracks (one is from the Wiiware release), controller support as well as some challenge modes based on fan-made levels. That's all pretty neat but whether it's "15 bucks for a free game" neat is up to you. - the Switch release from a few years back added multiplayer as well as some graphics updates and QoL changes. You would expect the older Steam release to get an update with these features but that still hasn't happened yet. There's always the chance Nicalis might fix this but they've had about 7 years now so don't get your hopes up. - there are rumors that the creator, Daisuke Amaya/Studio Pixel isn't being paid for the Nicalis ports of the game because they stole the rights to the IP from him. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccwVdj8dYQQ]This doesn't appear to actually be the case though. In fact, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQEGFrOkJ8]they're still keeping in touch with each other as of writing. That being said, Nicalis is still a crappy publisher so you might not want to support 'em regardless. I could go on and on about Cave Story any day, which is why I flagged this as a positive review, but unless Pixel works with a new publisher to release another version of the game (fat chance lmao) you won't be seeing that there.
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Dec. 2024
Everyone should play Cave Story. It’s an absolute classic, and you can even snag it for free at cavestory(dot)org. My first time playing Cave Story coincided with my decision to binge the Chris Chan documentary. The crushing difficulty of Cave Story paired with the unrelenting cringe of the Chris Chan’s saga seared both into my memory forever. If endurance is the measure of greatness, then I’m officially a legend after surviving that week.
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Sept. 2024
I've replayed this game over 50 times probably and it never gets any less fun. its freeware though and should be played as such, please dont support Nicalis and their treatment of pixel
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May 2024
Great game although every demon at Nicalis is most certainly going to hell for how they divided up content and features across all of the varying versions of the game. Why can't you be normal
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Cave Story+
9.0
7,078
534
Online players
12
Developer
Nicalis, Inc., Studio Pixel
Publisher
Nicalis, Inc.
Release 22 Nov 2011
Platforms