Games like The Cave on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: Grim Fandango Remastered (★ 4.0). Highest rated: Valiant Hearts: The Great War at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Bulb Boy at about 3 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for The Cave — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Point & Click, 2D and Steam Achievements.
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67%
1. Grim Fandango Remastered
Shares Dark Humor, Point & Click, Comedy, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.4 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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61%
2. Broken Sword 5 - The Serpent's Curse
Shares Point & Click, 2D, Full controller support, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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61%
3. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Shares Side Scroller, Point & Click, 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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60%
4. Bulb Boy
Shares Dark Humor, puzzles, Point & Click, 2D and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 75%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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59%
5. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
Shares Point & Click, Female Protagonist, 2D, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 94%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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59%
6. 2064: Read Only Memories
Shares Point & Click, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 44%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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59%
7. RiME
Shares puzzles, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
-
58%
8. Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Shares Dark Humor, Point & Click, Comedy, Female Protagonist and 2D and 3 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 77%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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58%
9. Thimbleweed Park
Shares puzzles, Point & Click, Comedy, Female Protagonist and 2D and 4 more tags; rated 0.5 higher; about 5h longer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
-
58%
10. Broken Age
Shares Controller, Point & Click, Comedy, Female Protagonist and 2D and 3 more tags; same developer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 66%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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58%
11. Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren`s Call
Shares Point & Click, Female Protagonist, 2D, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 69
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 100%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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58%
12. Syberia 3
Shares puzzles, Controller, Point & Click, Female Protagonist and Full controller support and 2 more tags; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 50
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like The Cave on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, Grim Fandango Remastered is the closest match to The Cave on Nintendo Switch — shares Dark Humor, Point & Click, Comedy, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.4 higher; released within 2 years.
Which game like The Cave is rated highest?
Valiant Hearts: The Great War holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 1,365 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against The Cave on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.