
A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you further into the darkness. Equal parts rage-game, claustrophobic nightmare, and descent into a forgotten folktale...
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The Cave Diver is equal parts rage-game, psychological horror, and folklore nightmare.
A rage-inducing descent into darkness, built around unconventional hand-based controls and a story buried deep beneath the earth.
The suffocating rocks of the caves are slowly closing in to claim another soul.
Keep crawling... You're almost there...
Cave dive through a labyrinth of crushing stones and constricting passageways. Branching tunnels will lure you into claustrophobic passages where turning back seems physically impossible.
Hammer crude signs into the stone to track your descent into the caves. With every new body, the cave grows familiar. The marks of those who came before remain…
The caves are no place for the living. Getting stuck means dying alone, entombed in rock. No one is coming to save you. When you return as a new cave diver, you might stumble upon your predecessor's decayed remains - if you can reach them.
Master the movement and grip of your two hands to carefully navigate obstacles and overcome physics puzzles. Every movement is perfected through failure. Only the obsessive, the patient, and the insane make it deeper.
For generations your family has told stories of a rare flower that grows at the bottom of these caves. They say the flower can cure any ailment - even paraplegia of the legs . But every man who's entered the caves has failed to return... Some say the cave itself takes them... Others speak of something ancient that stirs below - an evil older than man himself...
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English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America
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I've had my runs soft-locked multiple times where rubble is lodged into crevices making it impossible to pass and its after going down a rubble hole meaning you cant go back. The arms react so slowly to moving and get stuck on themselves constantly, And Ive had multiple game ending glitches were I cant move even when I am in the open its as if I am stuck in the floor. Im really disappointed I've been following its development since the beginning and in the current state I can't recommend this game :(
超棒的探洞氛围!作为一个受苦游戏,其实并不刁难人,不需要高精度的操作,存档点的设置和分布也非常人性化,如果能接受这种玩法,其实整个流程还是蛮有成就感的。地图和关卡设计不错,能循序渐进地引导玩家掌握各种操作技巧。缺点在于一些操作和物理效果的细节还有待打磨,尤其是搬运物品,(不知道是我没找对方法还是怎么的了)感觉有点抽象。 [spoiler] 剧情上倒不觉得特别哲理吧,总的来说就是“苦苦追寻的梦只是幻影,转而接受已然拥有的一切才是生活的真谛”;不过我倒是觉得,结果其实不那么重要,追寻的过程才是意义所在,说实话我也并不在意最后究竟能不能找到那个花,完成这段旅程本身就很有意义了,而这也正是这个游戏能带来的,对吧?不是想要这种艰苦爬行的体验又何必进入这个洞穴呢? [/spoiler] 总的来说,如果你喜欢探洞题材,又能接受这种受苦玩法,这个游戏是非常值得一试的。
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Hours played at review time, across 133 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Very atmospheric! I like it when you're getting stuck and the heartbeat gets louder and fov gets narrower. only grievance is that it can get annoying when you get stuck in places that you seemingly shouldnt be getting stuck in.
I thoroughly enjoyed this game. Great atmosphere, great level design, and the story was engaging. It's pretty hard, but checkpoints are fairly often in most levels. The one thing you need to get used to is how momentum works, which didn't quite click for me until the very end, basically swing away from where you are trying to go and then swing toward it.
玉ころがしのステージは許せたけど、水ステージは許せねえわ。というか進めないし、たまたま良い体勢になるかの運ゲーでしかないし。足使えないんだからもう切り落とせや 詰んだから途中までだけど…両手だけを操作して人一人がギリギリ通れるほどの洞窟を進んでいくゲーム。その性質上、頭も足も邪魔でしかないのでどういう体勢で進んでいくのかが肝となる。最初のステージは間違いなく面白い。が… 以下ネタバレあるので注意 最初のステージでこのテーマでやりたいことを大体やって、ああ楽しいなってなっていると、鉱石を運ぶという名の玉ころがし(落下要素あり)が始まる。 洞窟探索は??? となって何とか終わらせると、次は溺死要素のある水のステージ。そもそも息継ぎのポイントが少なすぎるし、手だけしか動かせない以上頭と足が引っかかると終わるのだが、謎の浮力によってめちゃくちゃ引っかかるし、溺死寸前になるとブラックアウトするからそもそもルートが見えないし、と、途轍もない難易度とイライラ要素を持ち合わせている。 最初のステージは間違いなく面白いし、ストーリーも気になったけど水のステージでキれすぎたのでギブアップします…
The madness this game caused by having to listen to my heart beat heavily as i try to drag my groin against some jagged rocks through a cave that has a path the size of my head trying to squeeze through like I am re-entering the world through the womb of the world. This game caused much anger. Would recommend.
this game is exactly what it looks like and controls are actually clean i def recommend this
A great combination of satisfaction and frustration. Really feels like you could be good at this game. Would love to see a speedrun, looks like some fun strats are possible.
extremely buggy, legs kept getting stuck in terrain
POV: Cave divers with perfect marriage, loving family and good salary when they see a cave entrance the size of a penny “The devil’s buttcrack and 100% death”
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