The Cub on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

From the creators of Golf Club Nostalgia and Highwater. Return to their whimsical, neon-lit apocalypse in a Jungle Book meets The Armageddon fusion. Parkour through the remains of humanity as a child being hunted, while catchy end-of-days tunes and curious survivor stories play on the radio.

The Cub is a singleplayer, post-apocalyptic and story rich game developed by Demagog Studio and published by Untold Tales and Gamersky Games.
Released on January 19th 2024 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil and Portuguese - Portugal.

It has received 484 reviews of which 418 were positive and 66 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 4.04€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified The Cub into these genres:

Singleplayer Post-apocalyptic Story Rich Precision Platformer Soundtrack Dystopian Adventure Atmospheric Exploration Narration Puzzle Comic Book Platformer Colorful Puzzle-Platformer Controller 2D Platformer Stylized Arcade 2D

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Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Quad Core
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 2 GB Memory
Storage: 11 GB available space

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March 2025

I have slightly mixed feelings about this game - on the one hand, not a bad post-apocalyptic plot, great and very beautiful graphics, and a pretty cool platformer with good, challenging runs from enemies that made my hands sweat to get the coveted trophy. On the other hand - the idea with the radio broadcast seemed interesting to me, BUT exactly until I started replaying the level over and over again, and this stupid radio starts telling the same thing, and starts the same song, which is tied to a certain level for the twentieth time in a row, and you can't skip or turn it off! And you know, it's very, very annoying! In general, I really liked the game itself, and I took it at a discount, which I advise other players to do. ============================================================================ У меня немного смешанные чувства насчет этой игры - с одной стороны не плохой постапокалипсис сюжет, великолепная и очень красивая графическая составляющая часть игры, и довольно прикольный платформер с неплохими, бросающими вызов забегами от врагов, которые заставили попотеть мои руки, чтобы заполучить заветный трофей. С другой стороны - задумка с радио эфиром показалась мне интересной, НО ровно до тех пор, как я не начал переигрывать уровень снова и снова, и это дурацкое радио начинает рассказывать одно и тоже, и запускает одну и ту же песню, которая привязана к определенному уровню в двадцатый раз подряд, и вы не можете никак скипнуть или отключить это! И это знаете очень и очень раздражает! Сама по себе игра в общем мне очень понравилась, и я взял ее по скидке, что и советую сделать другим игрокам.

Feb. 2025

experience 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 narrative 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 gameplay 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑 aesthetics 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 audio 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 good concept, subpar execution. music and narrative is solid. aesthetic is beautiful. gameplay is slightly buggy.

June 2024

It's not a bad game, but there are a few things that make it just okay for me. I usually only post reviews when I really like a game, but I'll make an exception this time. The game is pretty straightforward in both its story and puzzles. The platforming isn't demanding, but the controls aren't precise either. I ended up dying in silly ways several times because of this. To be fair, many games in this genre have the same issue. The good thing is that the achievements for not dying are still easy to get in this game. I understand that the music working like a radio was meant for immersion (or at least I think that was the idea), making us feel part of the world, like we're there in the moment listening to the radio just like the kid. But for me, it didn't work. Having a chase sequence with 3-5 minutes of no sound at all made it tedious, not to mention that these sequences already felt long, repetitive, and slow to me. The puzzles are almost non-existent: Move this cube here, turn on the light there, interact with this thing over there… There was never a moment where I had to sit and think a bit. It's not a bad game per se, but there are so many excellent games in the same genre that this one ends up being just okay. That's why I still recommended it, though I think Steam needs a third neutral option for reviews.

June 2024

The atmosphere of this game is wonderful. Amazing art. Snappy animation. Delightful world building. For someone with generally a short patience with platformers, this one doesn't overstay its welcome, and it is usually generous with its checkpoints, which you will need. The politics are a little on the nose, and I would have appreciated a story that left a little more to the imagination, letting the player draw their own conclusions. Almost everything is satiric reference to current events, so I think this game will unfortunately date itself in about about one news cycle. But if you read it as a manifesto of the moment, then the game proclaims its message loud and clear. Definitely on the short side.

May 2024

+ more interesting play-through + old-school platformer mixed with exploration of post-apo world with radio-nostalgia :) - sometimes it is difficult to concentrate both on radio and other things happening on the screen

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