Cave Story
Cave Story is a 2004 Metroidvania game developed by Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya. It was released on December 20, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. The game revolves around Quote, a robot who wakes up suffering from amnesia and explores in diverse cavernous areas in order to uncover his backstory and escape from the cave. The character gains access to new areas as he powers up his weapons by collecting triangular experience crystals and solves various platforming puzzles. Quote speaks to non-player characters scattered around the game world in order to learn more about the world and its inhabitants. Cave Story features 2D platform mechanics and is reminiscent of the games Amaya played in his youth, such as Metroid and Castlevania.
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CSE2 is a decompilation of Cave Story; this portable branch runs on Linux, macOS, Wii U, 3DS, and RISC OS in addition to Windows.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars197
Updated6 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2020
Active
A from-scratch reimplementation of the Cave Story engine with quality-of-life improvements, requiring the original game's data files.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,289
Updated22 days ago
LicenseMIT
Release2020
Halted
A fork of NXEngine, the open-source Cave Story engine rewrite, ported to low-powered handhelds and phones.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars198
Updated4 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2014
Sporadic
An upgraded NXEngine fork for Cave Story with SDL2, widescreen up to Full HD, localization and initial mod support.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars548
Updated6 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2014