Colossal Cave is an adventure developed by Cygnus Entertainment, released 19 January 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Colossal Cave is
Colossal Cave is an adventure game developed by Cygnus Entertainment and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Roberta and Ken Williams who founded and ran Sierra On-Line for nearly 20 years have come back from a long retirement to pay homage to the game that that started it all: The Colossal Cave. Developed using Unity, over a two-year period, Colossal Cave is a first-person, single-player, 3D adventure that will delight the millions of Sierra and Colossal Cave fans worldwide.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Colossal Cave holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Colossal Cave launched on 19 January 2023, within three weeks of Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered, Hi-Fi Rush and Pizza Tower. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered, Hi-Fi Rush, Pizza Tower.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Colossal Cave yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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