Cave Adventures

In Brief

A retro looking timed platformer where you control a scorpion looking to escape an alternative reality

Introduction:

Cave Adventures is a dynamic game where you have to take on the role of a cute monster who can not escape from captivity in a parallel universe. Your task is to pass the levels in 10 seconds, without dying from a variety of obstacles in the form of thorns, bonfires and huge chasms to pleasant music, but do not think that everything will be so simple. Just check your reaction in an endless mode, jumping over the abyss, dial as much as possible!

Reference accessed HERE. 31st May 2019

Installation:

Cave Adventures downloads to a 34.8 MB zip file that unzips to three files, (a setup.gcd security wrapper the set-up file and a read me). The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed if you wish. The installed game is approximately 111 MB in size.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Cave Adventures

Four shortcuts are installed to the desktop; the shortcut to the game, plus three others ''Play Online Games, MyPlayCity Games and a shortcut to a free online game. These latter three shortcuts can be deleted once the game has been installed. The Themida wrapper may alert your security and even block the installation; there are details about this issue in the read me that unpacks from the downloaded zip file.

The Game:

There are two modes of game play a platformer game and a runner game. Clicking on the Play Levels button takes you to the platform mode, the Run away button takes you to the runner mode. You can use both the WAD and ↑, ← & → to move left right and jump and the LMB to jump in the Run away mode. Only the WAD keys are available in the Platform mode.

The runner mode is self explanatory. you move to the right automatically and need to avoid any obstacles such as pits. You can move backwards, but this is only a temporary solution as the auto run feature cannot be stopped. The platform mode is a timed mode where you have to get to the white statue within the specified time.

The game takes over 30 seconds to load via a Falcoware game installer. There is no options menu and the game opens in full screen mode. There is also no exit button so to exit the game you either have to alt Tab to access the task bar then close the game down via its icon or to open the task manager and close it down that way.

Whiterabbit-uk 31st May 2019

Conclusion:

Cave Adventures is a simple retro looking game with little to keep me interested for more than a few moments. The runner mode is boring and the platform mode despite being timed isn't very challenging. You can find much better free platformers via Caiman Games (540 platformers available) HERE

Other Reviews and Videos of Cave Adventures:

You can read other comments about Cave Adventures HERE and a video of game play HERE, (the 1st 19 seconds of the video are the YouTubers intro screen) and one via the Steam store page HERE.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting Cave Adventures to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game are blocked by their security because Themida code has been known to hide malware, (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not); so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though the files (i.e. the setup, read me and setup.gcd files are actually totally free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. You could also try white-listing the setup.gcd file. In the almost 12 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Falcoware Games for giving away Cave Adventures and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If Cave Adventures doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums). Also, check out the free games available via Indie Gala HERE , the latest additions include Antisquad and War of the Human Tanks. The latest game from Epic Games is City of Brass (worth £15.49/$19.99/€16.79/₽435) a first-person action adventure, inspired by the Arabian Nights, (this will change to Kingdom: New Lands on the 6th June (worth £10.99/$15.99/€14.99/₽349); also, there are nine pages (15 games per page) of free games available via Steam HERE