What got you into Cave Story?

My cousin showed to me Cave Story in 2024, but i stopped playing, so in 2025 (NOW) he installed it for me again and now i'm playing and almost finishing it (in the true ending)

 

I know I've asked and said this way too many times on the discord before (I'm sorry), but what introduced you to this game?

In my case, I watched a Calamity mod nohit video and really liked the music which was a Running Hell remix. Eventually, I listened to the original which motivated me to play the freeware version, and the rest was history.

I honestly don't remember at all. It's been so many years.

 

I saw that Cave Story + was free on Epic some years ago and i liked the pixel art so I started playing. Best game I have ever played.

 

I discovered Cave Story from discovering Undertale, because Cave Story inspired it. It wasn't until summer of 2025 (current year as of posting this) that I actually played it, on RetroArch with the NXEngine core. I beat Balrog in the Shack, then got lost. A while after that, I got the Sega Genesis port downloaded to my PC and played that.

 

i never had consoles growing up, but i had a wii, since i didnt have the money at the time, i just played the demos
and turns out cave story has a pretty good demo!, then i joined the community a long while after that

 

When I was 4, my older brother and dad got it on a whim for the Wii. I didn’t play it until I was 9 and I got really good at it. I loved the story so much, and after I beat ballos, I had a mission. I was to beat it on every version possible. So far, it’s been Wii, 3ds, Ds, freeware, cs+. Working on it for the calculator now