Colossal Cave
Cygnus Entertainment · 2023 · Point & Click, Adventure, Exploration, Atmospheric, Puzzle
PC
Very Positive91% · 86
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About Colossal Cave
Colossal Cave is a classic, cozy 3D Adventure; slow down, explore a massive magical, labyrinthine cave system, all while solving clever, sprawling puzzles at your own pace. Auto-magic maps, limited inventory, all the fantastic creatures and a deep mystery at the heart of the experience. You may hear its heart beating while approaching the volcano. First-person POV with classic point-&-click controls: walk, look, interact, pick things up, and test your theories. Limited inventory requires clever management in its own right. A magical series of maps quietly track where you’ve been, marking where you’ve dropped items. Simply focus on solving puzzles instead of wrestling with navigation.
This is not a frantic action game; no frenetic timers shouting at you, no combo meters to maintain—just you, your lamp, and a series of intertwined, sprawling, twisty corridors full of brainy, logic-driven challenges.
Take your time:
You’ll bump into:
No lack of customization allows dialing the game to match your vibe with a variety of options, including comfort tweaks and settings. Snap turns, or nuke the narrator. It's all there. Play exactly how you like—curled up with a controller, a mouse, a headset, or a keyboard, slowly dawdling through the cave one cavern at a time.
This is not a frantic action game; no frenetic timers shouting at you, no combo meters to maintain—just you, your lamp, and a series of intertwined, sprawling, twisty corridors full of brainy, logic-driven challenges.
Take your time:
- Try weird solutions. Trial and error can be your friend.
- Double back to old rooms with new ideas and unlock potential new discoveries.
- Follow that “what if I…?” inclination and see what the cave passes back.
You’ll bump into:
- Mischievous dwarves with sharp daggers and sharper tempers.
- A grumpy, red bridge guarding troll.
- A noticeably absent giant. You see that?
- Flickering hinkypunks and other odd cave-dwellers. A handsome pirate, perhaps?
- Hidden treasures, strange artifacts, and places that feel just a little too magical to be natural.
No lack of customization allows dialing the game to match your vibe with a variety of options, including comfort tweaks and settings. Snap turns, or nuke the narrator. It's all there. Play exactly how you like—curled up with a controller, a mouse, a headset, or a keyboard, slowly dawdling through the cave one cavern at a time.
- Relaxed, point-&-click exploration in a massive cave
- Limited inventory that makes item choices and puzzle routes matter
- Handy auto-map that shows where you’ve been and where you dropped items
- A cast of dwarves, elves, hinkypunks, and other quirky cave creatures
- Dozens of logic-driven puzzles with satisfying “aha!” moments
- Retro-cool adventure vibes inspired by classic games
- Flexible customization options so you can make the adventure as meditative and away as you want
- The mythic, mellow cavecation!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It seems like an impossible task to create a 3D world that matches your imagination back from the old text adventure, but they somehow managed to do it. It really captures what the original descriptions conveyed. You could even say the game is faithful to a fault. It's beautiful and fun, but it's just as difficult as it has ever been. It is unforgiving in a way that you should expect that you will be playing it multiple times to figure everything out to be able to get a perfect score. Unfortunately (or fortunately, arguably) for me, I don't exactly remember all the puzzle solutions, so while I'm seeing some of my memories visually manifested, I am still somewhat going in blind. My only criticism of the game so far is that it's a little difficult to know if you've examined something before, which is exacerbated by the fact that the environment itself is something you can examine. Ergo, it's difficult to tell if the in-game object you're looking at is what you are going to examine or if it turns out it's solely decorative and you will simply trigger examining the environment for the dozenth time. Is this a dealbreaker? I don't think so, but it is the one thing I noticed.1 found this helpful
This really is a fun and great game and the creators have only improved it since it was first released... it has a lot of replay potential and some seriously challenging puzzles. Highly recommend this and suggest you all find all the secrets and aim for the high score.
"YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE" Argh argh argh argh ARGH!!!! It took me *days* to map out that area in the original game (played on a Caltext LSI/3 in 1983) and I carefully hoarded that paper map for years. This was a rush back through time but with colourful pictures to go with it. As it turned out YAIAMOTLPAA didn't turn out to be as difficult as the original. As Wikipedia has it, this one is the grandaddy of all subsequent fantasy games. Play it just to see how today's games got started. Better still, play the original text-based game. Just don't play 'Zork' if you want to keep your sanity. Oh yes. I've been down Bedquilt. I was a caver (spelunker) for decades and back in 2003 I finally got to poke around in the mud in that section of Mammoth Cave. Good times made better by memories of the game.
I've completed this game twice so far and really like it. My two end game scores have been 333 and 335 out of a possible 350 points. But you don't have to get the full 350 points to win the game. I started playing PC games in 1987 and had always heard of the non-graphical text only games "Colossal Cave Adventure" and the other releases called "Adventure" and always thought of trying them. Thank you Roberta and Ken for creating a graphical 3D version of this game.
Xyzzy
Colossal Cave keeps the soul of the original but makes it feel alive again. Great atmosphere, fun exploration, and puzzles that actually make you think. It doesn’t rush you or hold your hand. Just pure adventure and discovery! If you like exploration, old-school adventure vibes, gaming history, or all of the above, this is an easy recommendation!
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