Cave Story

This page is for the original game. For the enhanced remake, see Cave Story+.

Warnings

This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).

Key points

Multiple language translations available.

General information

Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari) - A Tribute Site

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website		Freeware.

A patch that includes various improvements and fixes for the game's graphical fidelity like widescreen support, 60 FPS etc. More info here.

A complete open-source clone/rewrite of Cave Story. NXEngine-evo is the upgraded/refactored version of original NXEngine.

Source code can be found here.

Large amount of bugfixes.

Proper widescreen support up to Full HD.

Animated character portraits.

Modern main menu.

Custom soundtrack support, including the "New" and "Remastered" soundtrack of Cave Story+. See here for details.

Incompatible with other mods of the game.^[1]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Config.dat^{[Note 1]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Profile.dat^{[Note 1]}

General settings.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Use the unofficial translation.
Spanish				Use the unofficial translation.
Simplified Chinese				Use the unofficial translation.
Traditional Chinese				Use the unofficial translation.
Dutch				Use the unofficial translation.
French				Use the unofficial translation.
German				Use the unofficial translation.
Italian				Use the unofficial translation.
Japanese				Use the original Japanese version.
Korean				Use the unofficial translation.
Lithuanian				Use the unofficial translation.
Polish				Use the unofficial translation.
Brazilian Portuguese				Use the unofficial translation.
Portuguese				Use the unofficial translation.
Russian				Fan translation by «Шедевр Translations».

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).