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The Cave
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A new platforming-adventure game from Double Fine and famed designer Ron Gilbert, which has the player traversing a sentient, talking cave and solving puzzles co-operatively.
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"Ron Gilbert's lightweight morality play offers up some cleverness and challenge, but never completely coheres into a memorable whole."
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Cool concept, flawed implementation, still fun

The Cave is a modern puzzle platformer, but unlike the recent wave of puzzle platformer it's not based around some single gameplay mechanic or physics puzzles, but instead follows mostly the tradition… Read more

The Cave

The Cave is a game that desperately tries to be something different, something else than what it is. The Cave wants to bend genres and create new ways of play. But the Cave fails. It’s exactly what it… Read more

The Cave is an amusing title that on the first time through is entertaining enough to warrant attention

As soon as you start up The Cave and hear a deep voice speaking at you, only then to find out that it is the cave itself that is narrating, that is when you begin to realise you are in for a strange a… Read more

Hidden Depths.

Many critics have warranted this game a play, but are really hesistant to recommend another (or even a third for that matter). Having been the first game I played in 2013, I have to say that I respect… Read more

Adventurous (but Repetitive) Spelunking

Plato’s Allegory, The Cave tells us that people have lived their entire lives in caves that they do not understand, and that it is the philosopher’s job to try to describe it to us. Ron Gilbert’s game… Read more

Do You Like Talking Caves? Then I Got The Game For You!

I have only played the demo ( bit low on the old funds). This is a classic 2-D puzzle platformer with a twist . The cave talks ... yea you heard that right THE CAVE FREAKING TALKS!!!With Bastion style… Read more

Gilbert's "Chinese Democracy"

In 1987, the debut works of two great artists were released: Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction and Ron Gilbert's Maniac Mansion . Each was a landmark contribution it its respective field, a hera… Read more

Fun But Frustrating

As a long-distance admirer of the Monkey Island series (I haven't yet compelled myself to play through them entirely), I was excited to see what Ron Gilbert and the people Double Fine had in store wit… Read more

Fantastic Ideas Poorly Executed

So, being the diehard Gilbert fan that I am, I downloaded and played my long pre-ordered copy of The Cave last night. Managed to complete a first play through in just under 3 hours (includes some time… Read more

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