- November 1, 2023
- VSTGames
- 319h median play time
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Cave Heroes is a single player role playing game. It was developed by VSTGames and was released on November 1, 2023. It received neutral reviews from players.
Cave Heroes Cave Heroes is a challenging idle game where you explore dungeons, fight demons and face powerfull bosses. Descending into the depths of the caves, you will find forgotten knowledge, learn to use Dark Mana, collect powerful loot and absorb the power of the Archdemons.Improve You Village Unlock new buildings, hire workers, veterans and archmages and watch your heroes' stats grow. Perfor…
- The game offers a surprisingly fun and deep idle RPG experience with a mix of active strategy and idle progression.
- There is a lot of content and features to discover, including building up a town, upgrading heroes, quests, events, and strategic use of spells.
- Progression feels rewarding for those who engage with the systems and communities; the game is free to play with no required payments and DLCs improve speed rather than gate content.
- Progression is very slow and grind-heavy, often feeling like a slog with frequent progression walls that may require repetitive resets.
- The game has an intrusive pay-to-win element with excessive microtransactions that can frustrate free players and slow down progress.
- User interface is complex and sometimes unclear, with confusing mechanics, bugs, and lack of good tutorials or wikis, making it hard for new players to understand how to progress.
- gameplay15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
The gameplay offers a rewarding and well-paced idle experience with strategic elements and a gradual introduction of mechanics, making progression feel steady and engaging for those willing to invest time. However, frequent, time-consuming events with long cooldowns and a poor balance between active and idle play can lead to frustration, especially in the endgame where progress becomes slow and repetitive. Additionally, heavy paywalls and limited meaningful upgrades detract from the overall gameplay quality and pacing.
“The game introduces mechanics slowly and layers on a ton of different mechanics at a good pace, instead of dumping everything at once.”
“Mechanics and systems are introduced in a much better way compared to other idle games.”
“There's a lot you can do to break up the regular grind through events.”
“There's a bad balance between active and idle gameplay while the endgame is just really boring; I didn't bother finishing it because it involves waiting for progress without really doing anything or grinding more to make it faster, and it's unclear which would be faster.”
“The massive paywall behind a 'free to play' to make progress in the game ruins overall gameplay, adding a 'cheaply developed' gameplay feel.”
“Looked like it would have potential but there is almost no way to make real progress without boring prestige over and over for small amounts of dark mana (literally the only progression mechanic). When you reach the first actual upgrade at stage 50, if you go past stage 50 you can no longer buy upgrades, which is stupid.”
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Cave Heroes is a role playing game.
Cave Heroes is available on PC and Windows.
On average players spend around 214 hours playing Cave Heroes.
Cave Heroes was released on November 1, 2023.
Cave Heroes was developed by VSTGames.
Cave Heroes has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.
Cave Heroes is a single player game.
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