A Dark Cave
Julian Bauer
Survive a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make hard choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth buried deep within the cave in this dark, text-based incremental game.
Overview
Survive the darkness. Build your settlement.
You wake with no memory at the entrance of a cave. A small fire is all that stands between you and the dark. A Dark Cave is a text-based, story-driven survival, settlement-building, and incremental adventure where every decision matters. Inspired by the minimalist incremental classics, A Dark Cave trades flashy graphics for intense atmosphere, discovery, and meaningful choices. Build a thriving village, uncover ancient secrets, and descend ever deeper into a world that becomes more dangerous the stronger you grow.
Outlast a cruel world. Uncover the dark past.
Build a thriving settlement. Construct and upgrade buildings, assign villagers to specialized jobs, and expand your village so it can endure.
Master complex production chains. Turn time and raw materials into tools, weapons, and powerful items while juggling trade-offs, because nothing is ever quite enough.
Explore the cave. Uncover what lies deep within the cave and reveal the secrets of the lost civilization.
Defend what you've built. Fight off waves of creatures from deep within the cave that try to tear down everything you've raised.
Mine and explore. Dig deep for minerals and push into the unknown in search of resources, rewards, and secrets.
Venture into the lost land. Scout, trade, research, upgrade, and sacrifice as new locations, game mechanics, and characters are unlocked.
Unlock and achieve. Incrementally unlock game mechanics, lore, and over 70 achievements.
Weekly game updates with new content. New events, mechanics, and story keep arriving, so there is always more to discover.
Genres
Ways to play
- Single-player
Weak PC? It still plays
Play A Dark Cave on a weak PC
A Dark Cave needs at least 1 GB of RAM. Cloud PC is a Windows computer with a strong GPU in the cloud. You control it from your laptop, phone or desktop.
Turn on Cloud PC
Log in to Thinkmay and start your machine. You get a Windows desktop of your own.
Install the game
Install A Dark Cave from Steam as you would at home.
Play on any device
Play on a laptop, phone or desktop. Controllers and microphones work.

























