When comparing The Cave vs Evolve Stage 2, the Slant community recommends The Cave for most people. In the question“What are the best team-based games on Steam?” The Cave is ranked 3rd while Evolve Stage 2 is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose The Cave is:
The Cave supports up to 3 player local co-op play. Sadly there is no online co-op.
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Pros
Pro 3 player local co-op
The Cave supports up to 3 player local co-op play. Sadly there is no online co-op.
Pro Cheesy jokes of the best kind
The Cave has a good sense of humor within, something expected when considering the game was created by the same people as The Secret of Monkey Island.
Pro Characters based on 7 deadly sins
Each character represents one of the seven deadly sins making the game a bit of a moral tale.
Pro Varied gameplay options created by different classes and variations on classess
Each of the different classes will be able to level up and fine tune their weapon loadouts, allowing for a wide array of options.
Pro 4v1 FPS gameplay
Evolve's gameplay is based around a simple asymmetric dynamic of four vs one.
Cons
Con Tedious level design
There is a lot of backtracking and lever pulling that gives a feeling of lazy level design to elongate the game.
Con Co-op may leave one or two players out on certain stages
Some stages do not offer gameplay for all co-op players. Although the co-op is drop in drop out, certain points of the game do not offer anything for the other players to do.
Con Dedicated servers have been shut down
The game is no longer supported. You can still play peer-to-peer though.
Con Pre-order unlocks
Evolve will allow anyone who pre-orders the game to have all monsters unlocked from the start. Something that will not be true for normal post release paying customers. What this means is that the grind that is necessary to unlock the monsters is pretty much superfluous and only there to incentivize pre-order money (getting money before anyone finds out if the game is good or not) as well as falsely lengthen the game with monotonous tasks allowing the creators to keep their player-base playing the until more DLC is released.