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Cave Hikers

Cave Hikers

Released: 12/6/2024

Co-financed by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. Cave Hikers is a relaxing and humorous 2D interactive cartoon mockumentary that follows three characters through a cavernous world, on a quest to find the mystical “cave with an infinite ceiling”. The game starts in the hometown of the characters, from which they embark on an exciting adventure of building a catapult and filing paperwork to be fired off further into the unknown parts of their cavernous worlds. FEATURES: Documentary style - The story is narrated as if the characters are creatures in a nature documentary. The book of caves - The game comes with a book, both as in-game images and a pdf for printing and reading. The book is wordless and contains sketches of flora and fauna, but it also has recipes for magic potions that will be mixed by the player in the game. Alchemy - collect some ingredients, mix some potions. shake some test tubes. Everyone waves at you - Any character you hover with the cursor will wave at the player. It’s a feature never before seen on this scale and was proven to cause delight with everyone ever.

Co-financed by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. Cave Hikers is a relaxing and humorous 2D interactive cartoon mockumentary that follows three characters through a cavernous world, on a quest to find the mystical “cave with an infinite ceiling”. The game starts in the hometown of the characters, from which they embark on an exciting adventure of building a catapult and filing paperwork to be fired off further into the unknown parts of their cavernous worlds. FEATURES: Documentary style - The story is narrated as if the characters are creatures in a nature documentary. The book of caves - The game comes with a book, both as in-game images and a pdf for printing and reading. The book is wordless and contains sketches of flora and fauna, but it also has recipes for magic potions that will be mixed by the player in the game. Alchemy - collect some ingredients, mix some potions. shake some test tubes. Everyone waves at you - Any character you hover with the cursor will wave at the player. It’s a feature never before seen on this scale and was proven to cause delight with everyone ever.

Co-financed by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. Cave Hikers is a relaxing and humorous 2D interactive cartoon mockumentary that follows three characters through a cavernous world, on a quest to find the mystical “cave with an infinite ceiling”. The game starts in the hometown of the characters, from which they embark on an exciting adventure of building a catapult and filing paperwork to be fired off further into the unknown parts of their cavernous worlds. FEATURES: Documentary style - The story is narrated as if the characters are creatures in a nature documentary. The book of caves - The game comes with a book, both as in-game images and a pdf for printing and reading. The book is wordless and contains sketches of flora and fauna, but it also has recipes for magic potions that will be mixed by the player in the game. Alchemy - collect some ingredients, mix some potions. shake some test tubes. Everyone waves at you - Any character you hover with the cursor will wave at the player. It’s a feature never before seen on this scale and was proven to cause delight with everyone ever.

Critics
78
Steam
97

Score Breakdown

77.5

Critic Average

2 reviews

97

Steam User Score

29 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
N/A
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
N/A

Average of both sources

Review Timing

1 launch window (50%)1 late (50%)