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Cavern

Cavern is a dungeon crawler in the vein of genre classics like Rogue and Nethack - but with original game world not based on any existing roguelike. Each level is randomly generated so no two games are the same.
Category Price Seller Device
Games $2.99 Sami Sierla iPhone, iPad, iPod

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Cavern was full of ancient treasure which surface people dug up to keep their high standards of living. Caves were inhabited by hostile creatures of the nether but Mystery Object of the surface kept the evil weak with it's power. Somehow, creatures of the deep managed to steal the Mystery Object and took it to the deepest levels of the Cavern. Now You, the Hero, must retrieve it before it's powers are used against the Surface!

Features:
•Shops to buy equipment and sell treasure
•Three characters to play:
Fighter : strong melee character.
Adventurer : specialises in bows.
Mystic : uses wands and scrolls.
•Vintage game art by DeBray Bailey
•16 randomly generated dungeons
•In-game tutorial
•Over 40 different monsters
•Randomized item attributes and special unique items.
•Online Highscores and ranking for each game played.
•Saves your exact game state when receiving call or switching to another app.
•Juicy sound effects.
•Permadeath

Reviews

Tutorial fixed with latest update!
Tr0llestiax

Hey guys thanks for fixing the tutorial with the latest update! Now I can get back to exploring those caves!


Elegant and accessible
LePandaDuMal

It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of Nethack but it streamlines the roguelike genre into a very smooth yet still satisfyingly deep game. The controls are the most elegant of any roguelike I’ve played. My suggestions for improvement would be: 1. More items, especially weapons. Not a lot, but the current selection feels a little repetitive. 2. More cross-class applicability for the attributes. For instance, something the wizard can do with strength other than just carry more stuff. 3. More shops at random intervals in the cavern.


Love the game, high score?
Moby Ick

Live the game and recently won and was hoping to beat my high score. How are high scores calculated? Can’t figure it out. I see people above me with lower levels and longer play times.


Best Rogue-like, dungeon crawler game
jonodale

I love this game, although it’s intensely difficult; even when you think you have won, it pulls an almighty surprise! Lots of replayability, and I love spending time on this!


Awesome roguelike !
bugimmortal

2.0 still has some crash issues. Lost a couple games. Now crashing on inventory screen. Keep up the good work though ! Thanks.


Ignore this review.
Owenazuris

If you have an old version of cavern, delete it, and reinstall to get game to work. Can't delete my old review, without adding a new one. Game works now, seems pretty basic, I'll update this later. Ignore this review for now.


Great
Jumpin__Jax

My only problem is they will ambush you sometimes when you first enter the dungeon, then you're screwed.


restart game every time you die
Leukocyte23

This would be a 5 star game if you did not have to restart the game every time you die. It should have some option to restart at the same level of the dungeon. As it is, you will spend hours and hours replaying the same 5 levels of the dungeon - this becomes very frustrating.


Great fun!
McLeod Clan

This is a very fun game! Hopefully the bugs I found will be fixed.


Fantastic Rogue-like
nightc1

I'm not even a big fan of rogue-likes but this one has a lot of charm. For example if you don't make it to the endgame and die, it's possible you'll encounter your ghost as an ai controlled character that'll help you. It's also possible you'll get helper ghosts from other people too. There are three classes, loot, and while the world is random each game... It's fixed until you die. So drop an item somewhere, it'll be there later when you come back. There's no IAP or other shenanigans, this is a pure premium game.