
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Before the new 2026 update the game used to run smoothly on my laptop but now it runs abysmally slow now. I would suggest getting Dokutsu-rs mod instead if you want a smoother Cave Story experience. Nicalis please fix this, I know you guys are incompetent af but come on now. I shouldn't be having a ton of slowdown and lag in an old ass indie title from the early 2000s.
cave story does not belong to nicalis. they took it from Daisuke Amaya and pretended to be the developers but Daisuke Amaya made this game entirely on his own. please remember this. if this review is viewed by anyone. I don't need to be recognized. Just spread the word however you can. it doesn't belong to anyone.
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download doukutsu-rs instead of wasting your money on this, terrible port of an absolutely phenomenal game
EDIT: as of the newest beta branch in april 2026, nicalis have miraculously done their jobs and this has been updated to a newer build based on the "enhanced" switch version. after all these years, they've finally addressed some of my major concerns like technical issues and a setting for game speed... in exchange for porting over all the hack game design changes and cheesy visual alterations from the switch version, because who NEEDS all that Outdated Backtracking? who NEEDS the hidden ending branching-off-point to be Hidden and Hard To Retry? this is now a more competent port on the face of it, but still a typical remaster travesty. my point stands, if you ever pay for any version of this game willingly you are a sucker, and this is coming from a fool who owns them all play this game, PLEASE play this game, but don't play this version of it. sped up due to poor framerate conversion, a worse translation in almost all regards, buggy outdated PC porting that somehow falls short of the original from 2004, and an unsurprising lack of support from a publisher that abandons projects at the drop of a hat, most of the time before even releasing them. you'll have a much better time getting the original from https://www.cavestory.org/ and maybe a source port like doukutsu-rs if the framerate/aspect ratio/resolution bothers you too much. if you need the 2x sprites and low-bitrate alternate soundtracks because it's the Definitive Version that's the Most Graphics there's no saving you
Over a decade later, and the Devs cooked up a fat update including coop??? they spoil us. Please play this game, its a phenomonal piece of history
[b]新版汉化[/b]:https://wwatp.lanzoum.com/b01bjfsnba 密码:cscn [b]安装教程[/b]:https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1HTES64Exf/ (视频和汉化都是我一人慢慢做的) 建议把[b]音轨[/b],[b]图像[/b]全切到[b]原版[/b]以获得最佳体验 后续还打算移植更多MOD 对游戏意犹未尽的洞窟迷们欢迎来我们q群或破站搜索[u]洞窟物语MOD[/u] 洞窟主群:[b]200401220[/b] 游戏[b]免费[/b]原版与rs版集成:https://wwatp.lanzoum.com/b01bjgxiej 密码:hl4o [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198194916119/recommended/200900/] 感谢麦神几周前帮忙的Steam引流测评 [/url] 也非常感谢[b]麦神[/b]为我们国内洞窟MOD圈做出的各种贡献 [hr][/hr]什么,你说我为什么要给差评,翻翻别人的测评或者搜索这个代理商的[strike]风流往事[/strike]就知道了 顺便问问[b]创意工坊[/b]哪去了,还有[b]跨局域网多人联机[/b]呢,少拿钱烧坟了,净整些无用的功能,破坏原作者 天谷 原生像素美学,还有看看你对CSE2开源反编译项目干的好事 https://steamdb.info/changelist/12410193/ 消失的创意工坊 2021试图做这个,不成功还是不赚钱就砍掉了?外包都不会么 "2021 is safe🙂" (代理商总理之一在西方洞窟Discord群上给玩家的更新答复,结果那年包括之后很多年什么也没发生) 爷从原版开始算上国内外各种奇妙mod玩这游戏16年了,连官中都没有,还得我来做么 2026夏促第一天特花4.8来送差评,之前是白嫖的家庭共享库做汉化
Recently got majority or all the exclusive console/portable console ports (Switch co op and lighting for example) and the rad jukebox. Didn't think they would do it ever since they announced it but here we are.
I've been playing Cave Story since 2004, so I would say I'm pretty much one of the best people to judge this game. And I've also played every single port of the game, and beaten every single one on every profile given. This port is dog water. It doesn't have native 16:9 support. It has less content than the Switch version. Which has, local multiplayer, proper widescreen support, and two extra soundtracks. There is no world where the PC version should be worse than the Switch title sharing the same exact name. Sure, the Steam version came out in 2011, so it's using the WiiWare port. Why not actually use the proper Cave Story+ you already have "made" and give customers the product they deserve. I love this game to death, and I will die on the hill of the shareware version being the superior version to get on PC (which is really sad).
游戏绝对的好游戏,但请不要于steam上购买此游戏 想要玩的可以去官网www.cavestory.org
I want to have sex with Curly Brace. That is all.
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