A cozy 3D Adventure from Roberta Williams, creator of King's Quest — explore a vast magical cave, solve clever puzzles, and uncover its mystery.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Colossal Cave is a classic, cozy 3D Adventure; slow down, explore a massive magical, labyrinthine cave system, all while solving clever, sprawling puzzles at your own pace. Auto-magic maps, limited inventory, all the fantastic creatures and a deep mystery at the heart of the experience.
You may hear its heart beating while approaching the volcano.
First-person POV with classic point-&-click controls: walk, look, interact, pick things up, and test your theories. Limited inventory requires clever management in its own right. A magical series of maps quietly track where you’ve been, marking where you’ve dropped items.
Simply focus on solving puzzles instead of wrestling with navigation.
This is not a frantic action game; no frenetic timers shouting at you, no combo meters to maintain—just you, your lamp, and a series of intertwined, sprawling, twisty corridors full of brainy, logic-driven challenges.
Take your time:
Try weird solutions. Trial and error can be your friend.
Double back to old rooms with new ideas and unlock potential new discoveries.
Follow that “what if I…?” inclination and see what the cave passes back.
The cave is quiet, but not without your footsteps.
You’ll bump into:
Mischievous dwarves with sharp daggers and sharper tempers.
A grumpy, red bridge guarding troll.
A noticeably absent giant. You see that?
Flickering hinkypunks and other odd cave-dwellers. A handsome pirate, perhaps?
Hidden treasures, strange artifacts, and places that feel just a little too magical to be natural.
Some encounters are charming, whilst others are just dangerous enough to keep you on your toes—but it all stays firmly in “casual mystical adventure,” not horror. Just fantasy with a slice of mystery.
That said, all good Adventures suggest one should save early, save often.
Colossal Cave 3D leans into that old-school adventure game atmosphere: colorful environments, shadowy silhouettes, bats, and a focus on exploring the world for clues rather than being led by the nose.
No lack of customization allows dialing the game to match your vibe with a variety of options, including comfort tweaks and settings. Snap turns, or nuke the narrator. It's all there. Play exactly how you like—curled up with a controller, a mouse, a headset, or a keyboard, slowly dawdling through the cave one cavern at a time.
Relaxed, point-&-click exploration in a massive cave
Limited inventory that makes item choices and puzzle routes matter
Handy auto-map that shows where you’ve been and where you dropped items
A cast of dwarves, elves, hinkypunks, and other quirky cave creatures
Dozens of logic-driven puzzles with satisfying “aha!” moments
Retro-cool adventure vibes inspired by classic games
Flexible customization options so you can make the adventure as meditative and away as you want
The mythic, mellow cavecation!
Venture down into Colossal Cave, follow your curiosity, and see how far your lamp — and your wits — can take you.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $14.99−40% | 113reviews | 91% | — | $44K |
| $24.99 | 89ratings | 78% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 41 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
This is the ultimate version of the classic Colossal Cave game! I highly recommend it for everyone who enjoyed playing the original PDP adventure game!
In 1978 I played a text version of this game, without points. I remembered the bird and snake. I remembered dwarfs trying to kill me. I remember loosing a pearl that rolled down a hill. Finally I remembered a shadowy figure who waved at me. I never finished the game. I always wanted to meet the shadow character and see what he wanted. NOW I have almost finished the game. It is fun. Yes old fashion. It is both for young and old. It is simple but not so simple, okay sometimes strange challanges. Game is worth playing. Game is BIG but not overly so. I do definately recommend it, however it is a bit pricy, best therefore to buy on sale.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Thai, Arabic, Korean +1 more
| $19.99 |
| 19ratings |
| 84% |
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| not modelled |
| $24.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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A nice remake of the text-based classic and a throwback to adventure games of old.
Williams are back, and so here you are a game of my late childhood reimagined with colors and images. At the beginning it was just text on a screen, now it's what you see. Don't consider a new game, you'll be disappointed in 2025: this is, READ CAREFULLY, how a game of late 70's would appear in that age if the current technology would be already available fifty years ago. So, this a retro futuristic experiment, I guess. With this idea, I've played Colossal Cave and I had fun. Naturally I'm still engaged because I need to find something else: where is the exit, for instance?
Neat quick game, I say quick but you need to choose your moves carefully because the lamp will die out if you do about 345 moves. So that's a challenge that may have you start a couple new runs.
"YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE" Argh argh argh argh ARGH!!!! It took me *days* to map out that area in the original game (played on a Caltext LSI/3 in 1983) and I carefully hoarded that paper map for years. This was a rush back through time but with colourful pictures to go with it. As it turned out YAIAMOTLPAA didn't turn out to be as difficult as the original. As Wikipedia has it, this one is the grandaddy of all subsequent fantasy games. Play it just to see how today's games got started. Better still, play the original text-based game. Just don't play 'Zork' if you want to keep your sanity. Oh yes. I've been down Bedquilt. I was a caver (spelunker) for decades and back in 2003 I finally got to poke around in the mud in that section of Mammoth Cave. Good times made better by memories of the game.
It seems like an impossible task to create a 3D world that matches your imagination back from the old text adventure, but they somehow managed to do it. It really captures what the original descriptions conveyed. You could even say the game is faithful to a fault. It's beautiful and fun, but it's just as difficult as it has ever been. It is unforgiving in a way that you should expect that you will be playing it multiple times to figure everything out to be able to get a perfect score. Unfortunately (or fortunately, arguably) for me, I don't exactly remember all the puzzle solutions, so while I'm seeing some of my memories visually manifested, I am still somewhat going in blind. My only criticism of the game so far is that it's a little difficult to know if you've examined something before, which is exacerbated by the fact that the environment itself is something you can examine. Ergo, it's difficult to tell if the in-game object you're looking at is what you are going to examine or if it turns out it's solely decorative and you will simply trigger examining the environment for the dozenth time. Is this a dealbreaker? I don't think so, but it is the one thing I noticed.
The puzzles to solve are impossible, but with the right aids, it is so fun to explore
Perfect for a cozy night after being worn out from work. I look forward to conquering the full cave!
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