Games like Cave Runner
If Cave Runner is your kind of game, the closest matches are No Exit : Torments of Hell, PuppeTNetiK - Speedrun Challenge and Samurai Ninja Wars — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Cave Runner 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.
No Exit : Torments of Hell
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cave Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
No Exit is a fast grappling game that pits you against several environmental challenges of hell. Time your swings and glide skull demon to safety. It is Imbued with most beautiful hand-painted artwork with enchanted musical score and narrates personal journey through pain.
PuppeTNetiK - Speedrun Challenge
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cave Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Cave Runner.
Try to take control of this military climbing prototype with the help of a magnet in a multitude of locations! Reach the top of the leaderboards!
Samurai Ninja Wars
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cave Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
Samurai Ninja Wars is a fast paced, blood soaked, action platformer. Run, jump, dodge, block, and slash your way through dozens of challenging levels. The enemies and hazards are ruthless, but so are you. Cut through your enemies, and follow the way of the Samurai.
Rolling Ball : Sphere Guider
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cave Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
A rolling ball game with unique and challenging levels.
RAD
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cave Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
RAD is a neon-drenched movement game built around speed, flow, and experimentation. Jump, swing and glide through relentless obstacle courses, race leaderboard ghosts and shave milliseconds off every run. Instant restarts keeps the momentum going.
Super Marble Brothers
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cave Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
Precision 3D platform game with cooperative or single player challenges above the clouds.
No Time For Caution
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cave Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
New Parkour Role Playing Game. No Time For Caution is a parkour-role-playing game with a tertiary perspective. Manage your character, try various game modes and face monsters to complete the parkours. Parkour and be an unstoppable warrior with your strong character.
Parkour Legends
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cave Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
Complete time-trial courses in this fast-paced side-scrolling parkour platformer. Gain speed boosts and build momentum as you vault over obstacles, slide under objects, run on walls, and rebound over impossible gaps. Collect hard-to-reach gear. Style your runner. Climb leaderboards. Become a legend!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cave Runner at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Cave Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Cave Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Cave Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Cave Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Cave Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Cave Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Cave Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cave Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
Crab Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cave Runner.
Crab Game is a First-Person Multiplayer game where you play through several different minigames based on children's games, until only one player stands victorious.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cave Runner.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
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Frequently asked about Cave Runner
- How much does Cave Runner cost?
- Cave Runner is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cave Runner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cave Runner are No Exit : Torments of Hell, PuppeTNetiK - Speedrun Challenge, Samurai Ninja Wars.
- Who developed Cave Runner?
- Cave Runner was developed by BadCat Studios.
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