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The Dark Cave
Developer Leaves Games
Every move you make counts in this gritty turn-based game! Fight against foes in opposite 3x3 grid boards. Plan ahead of your enemies’ attacks and carefully choose your moves: running out of moves will cost you health, but enemies will always keep coming. How deep can you get into The Dark Cave? From the Steam store page
18 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Aug 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
73
Fresh
11 positive · 4 negative
95% range 48–89%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 11 | 4 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
3 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
63 of 76 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
18 of 18 · most liked firstInteresting ideas in here, but the localization is very poor and even incomplete in places. A native English speaker has clearly not given any input on it. Words are often spliced between two lines and the whole thing is just sloppy. I'm guessing the developer is small or even one person so I wish there was a way to leave a mixed review, but I honestly can't recommend this to anyone in the current state. It is an unfinished, unpolished product.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game truly is fun. There needs to be an option to "hold" or not move/attack if possible. I don't feel it would be too overpowering to allow the player to decide not to attack or move. Unless there is some way that I don't know about? Game has alot of potential for 5 bucks. Please also add controller support for those of us that enjoy couch PC gaming.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"The Dark Cave" is a turn-based tactical RPG. You and your enemies are facing off in 3x3 grids. You have limited moves to defeat them and, after that, each move costs a health point. Why planning ahead matters? Because of the abundance of weapons, skills, potions and relics that make for myriads of exiting and unique runs. Every move can leave you open to an attack or, if you miscount, your attack might not land; add to this the passive abilities of you and your enemies and you might kill or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool idea, but has issues. Not least of which is the fact that every line of text has some kind of error (as well as some text that has yet to translated). Not being able to skip moves, and a lack of UI details also bring this one down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://youtu.be/NfBVQXbDFDM?si=G14iEJjHfavEA43n] First 20 Minutes Gameplay Here So, here we have a gave which I think should deserve more players. I mean yes, it's frustrating to move on to the next stage. But isn't that the whole point of these kind of games? =) Basically you have here a tactical RPG where decision counts. - and also may be your last. I mean you can re-play the stage you lost. But until you something else in your sleeve you didn't use before, there's almost no way to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The difficulty level is quite something. The boss fight is extremely hard and requires you several goes to figure it out.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The ideas are nice, but implementation is poor
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like what I see so far fun game for 5 dollar it's worth the time
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Dark Cave, developed by Leaves Games and published by 2P Games, is a compact turn-based roguelite that distills strategy, tension, and resource pressure into a deceptively simple grid-based format. At first glance, it looks like a small retro-inspired dungeon crawler with minimal presentation, but once you begin your descent, it becomes clear that the game’s design is built around razor-sharp decision-making. Every battle takes place on two opposing 3×3 grids—one for your hero and one for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the translation is at times a bit criminal, and the whole thing feels like someone's DYI first attempt at making a video game, and there's obvious bugs, I do, kinda, sorta wish to support whoever's making it hoping that they polish it up a bit. It's nothing special, but it was oddly catchy. I'm usually more strict than this, and if there was a "neutral" button I'd go for that one, but it doesn't feel like soulless shovelware, just an "author lacked resources and possibly experience…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →like a Kongregate version of Slay the Spire
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The easiest way to describe this game is to compare it to a different indie game by a different developer that came out four years prior: The Dungeon Beneath. The Dungeon Beneath offers a very similar package to The Dark Cave in that they're both turn-based roguelikes where you proceed in a mostly-linear fashion through each floor of an arbitrary dungeon, a bit like Slay the Spire's map except you're only rarely allowed to make a choice about what location you go to next. Unfortunately,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →short but sweet, interesting lil system that's fun to explore for exactly as long as it takes to master it. Love this kind of thing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice little game. Unfinished and unpolished - more like a jam-level than a steam level - but I enjoyed playing it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Greetings and Salutations! Pokemon Infinite Fusion Nuzlocke tonight at 10PM MST.Tonight we are going through the Dark Cave on our way to Lavender Town. The game really opens up after this part so I am looking forward to plentiful fusion options.
unlabelledView post →Nice idea with great potential but mediocrely developed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#thedarkcave The Dark Cave è disponibile su PC Pronti ad affrontare l'oscura caverna? https://www.gamernews.it/notizie/2024/07/17/the-dark-cave-e-disponibile-su-pc-17109.php
unlabelledView post →DIG DEEP INTO THE DARK CAVE, A DEMANDING TURN-BASED STRATEGY ROGUELIKE, OUT NOW ON STEAM! Fight in two 3x3 grids, mix and match weapons and skills, and make tough decisions #Gertlushgaming #Gaming #TheDarkCave https://youtu.be/-G-b8N_46qI
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