Games like The Cave
If The Cave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Portal 2, Life Goes On: Done to Death and ibb & obb — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its darkly humorous narration, high replay value and unique character backstories. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Cave is a 2013 adventure game from Double Fine Productions where players assemble a team of three from seven distinct characters to explore a mysterious underground cavern. The game features character-switching mechanics that allow different team members to access unique abilities needed to solve environmental puzzles, with each playthrough offering new solutions depending on which adventurers are selected. Reviewers highlight the darkly-humorous narration and unique character backstories that give each run a different tone and narrative focus. Players describe it as atmospheric and challenging, with high-replay-value stemming from the seven-character roster and branching puzzle solutions. The game supports local co-op and runs at verified status on Steam Deck, currently priced at $14.99.
About The Cave: Assemble your team of three from seven unlikely adventurers, then descend into the mysterious depths to explore The Cave!
Players who liked The Cave also play
Steam players who put hours into The Cave also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Top pick for The Cave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Life Goes On: Done to Death
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Second-strongest match for The Cave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.
ibb & obb
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Third-strongest match for The Cave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Ranked #4 for The Cave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Take control of Lara and her new partner Totec, a Mayan tribesman, and uncover the ancient artifact known as the "Mirror of Smoke" in this all new action adventure game.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Shares character switching and an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Ranked #5 for The Cave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Ranked #6 for The Cave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Cave.
Ranked #7 for The Cave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Portal
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Cave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Cave
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Hero Siege
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Cave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
Torchlight II
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Cave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
The adventure continues in Torchlight II! An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world. Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer.
Maniac Mansion
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Cave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Quick, Dr. Fred's Kidnapped Sandy and he's about to start the experiment...
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Shares character switching and an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Reviewers of The Cave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Psychonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Reviewers of The Cave cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Cave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Diablo® IV
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Reviewers of The Cave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares character switching and an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Reviewers of The Cave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Cave at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Cave on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Cave on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Cave on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under The Cave on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Cave on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Cave on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Cave on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under The Cave on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from Double Fine Productions
Other recommendable Steam games by Double Fine Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Psychonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind The Cave.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
Psychonauts 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind The Cave. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
Brutal Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind The Cave. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
Grim Fandango Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind The Cave. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
Broken Age
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind The Cave. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares character switching and a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind The Cave. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
Spacebase DF-9
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Cave.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind The Cave.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Costume Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Another title from Double Fine Productions, the studio behind The Cave. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Life Goes On: Done to Death
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.
ibb & obb
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cave.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Cave.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Cave.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Cave.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Portal
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Frequently asked about The Cave
- Is The Cave verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Cave is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Cave cost?
- The Cave is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Cave have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Cave supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to The Cave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cave are Portal 2, Life Goes On: Done to Death, ibb & obb.
- Who developed The Cave?
- The Cave was developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Double Fine Productions, Xbox Game Studios.
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