
Face your fears in realistic VR spelunking. Explore fictional and real-life caves recreated in VR, including the infamous Nutty Putty cave guided by a real-life rescuer. Tackle steep climbs and narrow tunnels with physical tools and authentic techniques.
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Follow the story of Jake, who is retracing the footsteps of his father, a famous spelunker, and uncover family secrets as he descends deeper into the abyss of the caves.
No cheap jump scares - the main game fear factors are headlamp battery life and well… your nerves!
Chilling experience designed to trigger your deepest phobias. Explore unpredictable cave systems where the darkness itself feels alive, facing a shifting variety of psychological and environmental horrors.
A journey through the infamous Nutty Putty cave, guided by an exclusive audio commentary from Brandon Kowallis, a real-life rescuer from the tragic 2009 incident and original cartographer who mapped its treacherous passages before they were closed forever.
Realistic Cave Layouts: Irregular, natural cave structures that avoid repetition or tiled environments. Expect steep climbs, narrow tunnels, and slides
Detailed Environmental Interaction: Players can move rocks, observe dripping water, and interact with reactive surroundings.
No Built-in Map System: Players must mark trails with chalk, promoting true exploration and self-reliance.
Tool Management & Gear Maintenance: Navigate the darkness using ropes and a headlamp. Maintain your gloves to ensure their reliability.
Free Climbing Mechanics: Climb any surface using pitons, choosing your own routes—no predefined climbing paths.
Breath Management System: Manage your breathing in tight passages.
Obstacle Interaction: Use tools to break stalactites, remove debris, and clear blockages in the cave system.

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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai +1 more
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This hasn't been updated since December 17th 2025. Other platforms like Playstation, Meta Quest have receieved: Many new maps; multiplayer; skins; and a story chapter from what I can garner from their posting of updates on other websites. There has not even been communication about this coming to this version, which leads me to believe this is really an Early Access title with unfinished content masquerading as a completed one on this platform. And since it didn't do well for them, they're leaving it behind. Poor practice and management. Don't buy and support this.
I'm big into caving and was really looking forward to this game, especially the promised real-life cave recreations. What I got was only a few hours of real content, and every meaningful update since launch appears to have gone to other platforms — the Steam version hasn't been touched since December 2025. I genuinely like this game and want to see it grow — I'd happily pay for DLC to support more content coming to this platform. But at this point the Steam version feels like an afterthought, and I can't in good conscience recommend spending money on it until the developers show some sign of life here.
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Now i know why they call it the Nutty Putty cave, because you have to be absolute NUTS to go in there but also manuverable as Putty to even fit through those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spaces. Not to mention.... Utah sent ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Boyscouts down there? That State has to be one of the most mental states of America.
Mfs would go to a cave named "Devils dildo" with a .03 nanometer gap tunnel and still try to go through. Good game tho
why make someone spend money for a game the devs are just going to give up on. glad my money went to updates (on the quest) i cant even play. Basically, do not buy this on steam. unless you want old content.. and little note. valve index controls are very wonky or buggy, either or. making it through some of the long tight gaps you just inhale (crush yourself) and have to restart even thought the triggers are being held down.
[code]Played on my Meta Quest 2 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]@MatureContent[/url][/code] Mountain climbing is wild, but cave crawling is just straight up lunacy. This game is unsettling in so many ways. Every path is dark and small, to the point where you will have to hold your breath to fit through the small crevices and where breathing in accidentally will suffocate you. That is right up until you randomly discover some long deep drop in the middle of the cave and have to carabine your way down into the darkness. People who do this as a hobby are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crazy, I felt claustrophobic just doing it virtually. Before playing this, I had actually expected that the whole crawling around thing would feel weird as I was gonna be playing this standing up, but it didn't feel weird at all. The controls are good and intuitive and moving around by pulling yourself forward worked really well. I only had one incident where I glitched through the map, but the game just respawned me at the same place after like 2 seconds. The thing I enjoyed the most though, wasn’t actually the crawling itself, but the climbing part and if there is one thing this game has taught me, it is that a mountain climbing game like Cairn could work super well in VR. Please, someone make that. I will recommend this to VR players who already own a lot of other VR titles and can survive paying 15 bucks for an hour of “fun”. I got around an hour out of it and I am probably not gonna revisit it again. That said I still had fun and learned a bit about this crazy hobby. ————————————————————————————— [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]Help me out by following my Curator, I’d really appreciate it!![/url]
Для полного експириенса пришлось залезть под кровать... Хорошо что дома никого не было, иначе подумали бы что я долб03б, что конечно же не так (нет).
Разработчики выпустили эту игру в стиме чтобы просто легко пофармить денег. Для справки: изначально игра вышла в магазине meta. По итогу обновлений на стимовской версии уже нет полгода, а в метовской уже даже мультиплеер завезли и новую карту. Проблем с производительностью нет, но вы быстро пройдете весь контент в стимовской версии и вам захочется чего-то нового, что есть только в meta версии.
[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest 3[/h1] You can view my gameplay & commentary here: https://youtu.be/a3HO5faREck I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, it is indeed the most realistic cave exploration simulation in VR. On the other hand, it can be very frustrating to play because it is realistic. You'll be climbing in the dark for the most part. You'll probably get lost and go around in circles at some point. Not a lot happens. You'll climb (drag your body across the ground in narrow passages) and then you'll climb some more ... in the dark. It's a dark, damp cave and then more dark, damp, cave. Big holes, small holes, all kinds of holes. Lots of rocks. Darkness will be your friend. There are some nice tools to use. You have a lamp, then like a UV light. You have pitons you can lay down against the rock to climb up. You have a hammer to break down the rocks. You have a file to clean up your gloves. Eventually, you unlock the rope to rappel down the heights much faster, but it is pretty late in the story mode when this happens. There are some differences in the different cave systems. Then again, if you've seen one dark, damp cave with little holes to crawl across, I think you've seen them all. I think others may enjoy it more than I did. I think in theory it should be more fun, but in practice, it's quite repetitious and frustrating. Game is running on the Unity Engine. On my RTX 5090, I was getting a steady 90 fps. You have full locomotion and smooth turning available (but you'll be mostly crawling). You can play comfortably seated. Lastly, it took me less than 4 hours to beat story mode (with a lot of getting lost and going around in circles). I also did the tourist mode of Nutty Putty and the horror mode of Spider and Abyss (briefly). I didn't do any of the arcade mode. The Steam version is still missing a lot of the content available in the Quest mode. Hopefully we get all they have soon, but it is worrying that the dev has taken so long. [b]Rate 6.5/10.[/b] [quote]I bought this game! If you enjoyed my review, please consider joining my Steam Curator group [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Oculus_WMR]Oculus Rift Reviews.[/url][/quote]
很震撼的游戏,自从看了神秘园后就对这种东西很感兴趣,春促偶然刷到这款游戏,发现里面有坚果油灰洞我就立马买来玩了,一口气玩了俩小时,给坚果油灰洞100%探完了,一开始看视频觉得这么宽的洞怎么可能爬不出来呢,直到我亲身体验了才知道那个洞口有多么窒息,真的推荐每一个有VR的都玩玩这款游戏 我想顺便问一下制作组,坚果油灰洞的结构是100%还原的吗?包括拐角,垂直落差,洞口大小?
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