Highly addictive, replayable runs
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Way too much replayability factor. Perfectly rides the line of "simple enough to pick up quickly" and "intricate enough to not get boring"”
Steam review · 35.1 h played ↗
Spelunky
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Very Positive · 92%Very Positive · 92%Mossmouth2013Platformer · Roguelike · Action Roguelike
$14.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A punishing, endlessly replayable roguelike platformer with tight controls and deep systems, but frequent RNG deaths. Skip it if you hate permadeath, one-hit kills or time pressure.
Great for
Players who love hard, skill-based roguelikes, learning by dying, and chaotic local co-op
Main risk
Brutal difficulty, RNG deaths and permadeath with no progression can feel unfair and exhausting
What players love
Genre-defining classic that still holds up
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Every conversation about the modern roguelike/lite as we know it begins and ends with this game. Mechanical perfection.”
Steam review · 20.3 h played ↗
Deep interactions, secrets and fair-feeling deaths
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“it's truthfully a masterwork of mechanical complexity, wherein player knowledge and curiosity is the ultimate factor in success.”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗
Great chaotic co-op and versus with friends
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“This game is a blast, especially multiplayer.”
Steam review · 3.9 h played ↗
Skill-based mastery with no meta-progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“It has my favorite form of progress for one of these games, being more about learning the game's mechanics,so you gradually progress farther with each run as you learn more.”
Steam review · 12.4 h played ↗
Tight, responsive controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“Movement is tight and responsive and the skill ceiling is enormous with how much mechanical aspects there are.”
Steam review · 61.9 h played ↗
What players complain about
Unfair RNG, instakills and stunlocks
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“You have a chance to die from simply spawning in and a random enemy causes a chain reaction that kills you OR the enemies spawn so close to you that you get almost no reaction time.”
Steam review · 1.4 h played ↗
Ghost timer forces rushing
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Nowhere on the page it says that this game has a TIME LIMIT.”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗
Too hard, brutal and punishing
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“It is unreasonable how easy it is to die. No way to change difficulty, way to punishing.”
Steam review · 2.1 h played ↗
Crashes, launch and resolution bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Can't even get screen resolution to change without a crash to desktop.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
No progression; losing runs feels like wasted time
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“an attempt will last 20 to 40 minutes. That is way too long when a single mistake erases all progress”
Steam review · 15.7 h played ↗
No Steam Cloud and lost saves
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews
“This game doesn't support cloudsaves. Woke up to find the game randomly un-installed from some error and all of my data gone after over 200 hours.”
Steam review · 206.6 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support200 MB
Minimum
OSMicrosoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 / 8
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz or equivalent processor
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics3D graphics card
Storage200 MB available space
OSMicrosoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 / 8
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz or equivalent processor
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics3D graphics card
Storage200 MB available space
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