Cave Crawler 2 is now available to wishlist on Steam. The game is scheduled for a 2024 release and will be completely free to play.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3000490/Cave_Crawler_2/

Cave Crawler 2 will feature:

• 15 levels
  
• 3 boss fights
  
• A custom level editor
  
• New and returning enemies
  
• Exanded soundtrack

Thanks to everyone who supported Cave Crawler over the past few years, and I hope you enjoy the sequel.

You can now disable particle effects in the options menu. I've also fixed the intermittent lag spikes by manually caching the particle effects on load.

Some people have been experience a bug that turns the player around randomly. This is caused by lag spikes and will hopefully occur much less often now.

I'd like to address some issues that people have been experiencing.

Some of the main criticisms that I've seen is that the character slides too much. I slightly increased the friction in the last patch to address this, but if the game still feels to slippery I'm willing to change it again. Let me know if you'd like to see this changed.

The game frequently experience frame drops that seem to be universal to all hardware. As far as I can tell, this is likely caused by the way OpenGL caches Godot's particle effects. I'm hoping to fix this when Godot 4.0 is released.

Please contact me at evanyoussef8@gmail.com if you have any other issues.

Again, thanks to eveyone for trying out the game.

To celebrate 20,000 downloads, I added a new bonus stage along with an achievement for beating it. Beat level 5 to unlock the new stage.

Thanks to everyone who helped playtest the game before release.