The Cave

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Weirdest implementation of single/multiplayer I've ever seen. You all have to play on one screen on the same machine. If one of your characters goes off screen that's it, you can't move it at all. Two of you can use controllers and one can use WASD on the keyboard. Also, it self-describes as "Single player"? In these days where online co-op is commonplace this feels clunky and horrible. I'm going to give it a negative review for now, as a warning to unsuspecting players, but if I play it and it's fun anyway I'll change my review to positive later.

Not as good as I remember as a kid. Humor Can't carry a game and the gameplay is very boring.

This game is not multiplayer as it advertises. You can only play co-op on the same computer. There is also no instructions on how to set up co-op (you have to connect at least one controller before launching the game, the other player is forced to use keyboard and mouse regardless of how many controllers are connected). I spent an hour trying to make this game work for me and my girlfriend... only to find out it has the worst co-op configuration ever. You and other players have to use the same screen and the screen only follows one player, meaning if the player with the screen following moves too far, the other players are unable to control or see their characters anymore. I just can't fathom why they wouldn't go with split-screen. The game itself is fun, really cute, and the puzzles aren't too hard or too easy so far, but if you are planning to buy to play with a friend... pass.

Its a fun narrative adventure with platforming. Only complaint is that it should of had 9 characters.

Great game with different versions based on characters chosen. Love it every time I play. Never a disappointment.

Fun commentary, good animation, bit of a clickfest from time to time but generally the puzzles are tractable.

为童年补票，但希望能增加繁体中文

This is one of the few games i will play on any platform because I love this game in its entirety. Wonderful characters that you can laugh with or even identify in some crazy way. First played it on PS3 and now on PC. Yeah, I Love this game.

An absolute clunkfest that quickly became unplayable. I had been very excited to play this for a long time and finally got around to it, and it deserves its mixed reviews. The platforming is poor, puzzles frustrating (I'll know exactly what to do then proceed to spend multiple minutes getting the game to let me do so: slow movement and animations, accidental deaths due to fall damage, reloading in random places). I finally gave up when my game glitched my character into the ground and I could not move. It required reloading my save from 20 minutes prior which I already didn't enjoy playing, and I will not replay it to progress. This is the game Ron Gilbert loves deeply and I can appreciate that while also never wanting to launch this game again. I'll maybe watch a playthrough to experience it, but in the hour I played I was not hooked by the characters or plot. The art is kind of ugly-pretty, the sound effects are decent but way overdone (playing too many at once, or too often). The Steam achievements are the worst example I've seen of spoiling the plot. Don't recommend this game.

[b]Pros[/b] +Clever puzzles +Good narrator +Nice artwork +Good story [b]Cons[/b] +Tedious +Backtracking +Slow animations I had some trouble deciding whether to recommend this game or not. Ultimately, I wasn’t enjoying my time playing it, so I don’t recommend it. The story is ok and the puzzles are clever. The narration is good and funny at times. However, zipping back and forth juggling 3 characters who are typically on different parts of the level got old very fast. Animations and walking speed were slow and I seemed to be fighting the controls throughout the game. Dying from fall damage happens a lot and I don’t really see a reason why it was even in the game. It would have made the game a bit faster, unless padding it out to take certain paths rather than dropping down was the intended direction. I also realized that no ambient music was playing, it was just the characters footsteps and other noises. Backtracking was a problem too. Overall, I found it to be a very tedious game; one I certainly did not want to play several times to go through with all the characters. [b]5/10[/b] Average