Cave Story Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• I’ve never played Cave Story.

  Yeah it's good :D You can get the 2004 freeware version at cavestory.org, and cave story+ is on steam and switch (although the switch version has more features such as native widescreen and 2 extra soundtracks). Source: 10 months ago

• Steam Summer sale has just started? Any recommended MVs

  IMO, the soundtrack and translation are both better in the cavestory.org version. To me, the soundtrack point is very important. Source: 10 months ago

• What are some really good free games

  Cavestory is free if you get it from the website cavestory.org. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is Cave Story + worth it in 2022?

  If you're only looking for the story and main game itself, go for freeware on cavestory.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• Soo what now?

  I got the good ending, what do I do after the ending screen? Is there a way to exit it? If I exit and start a new game (didn't got best ending because... I always fell down on the waterway house door :( ), will it count I got it? I'm playing the aeon genesis spanish translation from cavestory.org (the vagrante traducciones one), so yeah. Source: about 2 years ago

• Cave Story (correction)

  {"id": "000085", "submitted_by": "vkb123", "name": "Cave Story", "description": "Cave Story, originally released as Dōkutsu Monogatari, is a 2004 Metroidvania platform-adventure game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed over five years by Japanese developer Daisuke \"Pixel\" Amaya in his free... Source: about 2 years ago

• Well that was a load of nothing.

  The original version of Cave Story is freeware. You can download it from cavestory.org; just go to the downloads page and select English translation (pre-patched)... Unless you speak Japanese or want to play in another language, in which case, go with those options. If you want to support the creator, you should consider buying Kero Blaster, his most recent game. Source: about 2 years ago

• Hey, quick question, is cavestory.org safe?

  I downloaded cave story off of cavestory.org and ran it through virustotal.com and it detects a different malicious virus off the file every time, is it safe? Source: over 2 years ago

• the original cave story have a manual? where i could find?

  I don't remember where I got it I think from the download on cavestory.org? But its a .HTML file. Source: over 2 years ago

• Does anyone know how to download and use a Spanish version of Cave Story freeware?

  The ones on cavestory.org im having a hard time figuring out. Source: over 2 years ago

• Issue With NXEngine version

  Try searching on cavestory.org's download page or the forums? Source: over 2 years ago

• Why is this game so underrated?

  Cave Story is the indie darling that is free, you can literally go play it right now for FREE Cave Story.org it's a Metroidvania that does everything perfectly but it never got any press to get someone to play it. Source: over 2 years ago

• Fun single player pc games?

  If you're into Metroidvanias, I cannot Cave Story enough. It's really fun, and has an excellent story. Although you have to pay for an enhanced version on Steam, you can get the freeware version on cavestory.org for, well, free. Either way, it's awesome and it's a shame it isn't more well-known. Source: almost 3 years ago