The Mammoth: A Cave Painting

The Mammoth: A Cave Painting

inbetweengames · November 22, 2017 · Indie, Adventure, Casual, Free to Play, Action

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About The Mammoth: A Cave Painting

✦ AI summary

The Mammoth: A Cave Painting is a 5-minute narrative experience where you act out a prehistoric story inspired by ancient cave paintings, controlling a mammoth searching for its lost herd across a vast plain. The game uniquely weaves dynamic narration that evolves based on your choices, exploring themes of loss and survival as you protect your young and face human hunters.

The Mammoth: A Cave Painting tells the 5 million year story of the mammoth in 5 minutes. At its very core it is a story about the inescapability of loss.
  • Inspired by prehistoric cave-paintings, act out a story written on the wall of a cave.
  • Search for your lost herd on the wide plain.
  • Gather and protect your children.
  • Struggle with human hunters.
  • Experience the dynamic narration unfold as you tell your story.

The Mammoth: A Cave Painting — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Sep 12, 2026
A pretty good story with meaning.
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Recommended Aug 22, 2026
A very short game where you play as a mammoth in a cave painting. It's simple, both in gameplay and it's story, but I found the sparse story very evocative and well done. It is told by a narrator who narrates your actions, like in Bastion, but clearly voiced by an amateur (not bad, but very "programmer voice acting"). And while the game looks very nice and generally does a great job of maintaining the cavepainting style, the reuse of assets like the trees and shrubs diminish it. While creating uniques assets for each background object would be a lot of work (but not impossible for such a short game), the devs could have just mirrored them, and made small changes to the base assets so they weren't so uniform to the point it distracted me. Overall, a great, short, free experience. I highly recommend you give this a shot if it interests you in any way due to it's brevity.
Recommended Aug 19, 2026
The Mammoth: A Cave Painting is a very short game, but it is one of those experiences where the small amount of gameplay is clearly there to support the story rather than be the main attraction. I play as a mammoth moving through a prehistoric world, searching for my herd, protecting my children and trying to survive as humans begin hunting us. The whole story is designed to take around five minutes, which sounds almost ridiculously short, but the game uses that short time to tell a much bigger story about survival, family and loss. What I like most is the way the game presents everything as a living cave painting. The environments look like they have been drawn onto the walls of a prehistoric cave, and I am basically acting out the story that has been left there. It gives the game a really different identity from a normal adventure game. I am not walking through a realistic prehistoric world with loads of dialogue and complicated systems. Instead, the artwork and simple interactions do most of the storytelling, which I think suits the subject really well. The gameplay itself is very straightforward. I spend my time searching the open area for my herd, gathering and protecting th…
Recommended Aug 10, 2026
WONDERFUL GAME #mammoths #mammoths #mammoths #wearecharliekirkwecarrytheflame
Not recommended Aug 8, 2026
The game has some nice artwork, but I didn’t find it very fun or interesting.
Recommended Jul 24, 2026
It's short. It's sweet. It's free.

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