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

 

For me, I was introduced when we downloaded the demo for the WiiWare version of it on our Wii. I did admittedly spoil most of the story for myself before getting access to the full game (not on the Wii, though, it was the 3DS exclusive port), but I still enjoyed it just as much when I was able to play through the whole thing.

 

i first downloaded the gog version on a win7 32bit computer (featuring intel core i3) and honestly, i have one save file that is on about grasslands, idk if i really gonna beat it as the best ending idfk

 

My computer is super limited, and the games I could play were really old. I managed to play Resident Evil 3 (Classic), Halo 1, Half-Life, Counter-Strike 1.6/Condition Zero, among others. Once I finished them, I was like, "I need more!" and replaying them wasn't an option since most ran at less than 30 FPS. I asked Gemini almost daily what games would work on my PC, and he kept recommending Cave Story. Until one day I got fed up and decided to try Cave Story... I don't regret it XD.
The music really captivated me (especially Grasstown's). The story truly touched my heart, even though I didn't know who the heck he was until more than halfway through the game XD. But after having to defeat Toroko, I realized I had underestimated this game... And then Ballos came along, and well, I spent days trying to beat him XD