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Caveblazers

Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way to aid your…

84 24 May 2017

Caveblazers is an adventure developed by Deadpan Games, released 24 May 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Caveblazers is

Caveblazers is an adventure game developed by Deadpan Games and released in 2017. It was published by The Yogscast. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Caveblazers is a 2017 video game developed by Deadpan Games and published by Yogscast Games. Described as an "action-focused roguelike platformer", players in Caveblazers defeat enemies across runs of procedurally-generated dungeons to accumulate items, weapons, and potions with random effects. The developers described the design of the game as aiming to "move away from the simplistic combat systems" of other roguelike games to focus on "fast-paced combat". Upon release, the game received generally favorable reviews, with praise directed to the game's roguelike mechanics, customisation and challenging difficulty, and criticism for its lack of variety of environments and enemies. A port of…
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How it plays

Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 21 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Caveblazers holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Dual Core, 2 GB RAM and 512 MB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Caveblazers launched on 24 May 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Injustice 2, Tekken 7 and RiME. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Prey, Injustice 2, Tekken 7, RiME.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Caveblazers — frequently asked questions

When did Caveblazers come out?
Caveblazers was released on 24 May 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Caveblazers?
At minimum, Caveblazers needs Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, 512 MB graphics.

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