When comparing The Cave vs Circle Rush, the Slant community recommends The Cave for most people. In the question“What are the best Android games without in-app purchases/paywalls?” The Cave is ranked 31st while Circle Rush is ranked 132nd. 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 Creative gameplay mechanic
Creative idea with super simple controls. Easy to pick up, hard to master. The gameplay consists of the players white ball dodging all red balls in the two outline circles. By tapping the screen the player can slow down or speed up their white ball.
Pro Beautiful, minimalistic design
The graphics are simple yet hold to a true minimalistic design.
Pro Local multiplayer for two players on the same device
Play with a friend on the same device and choose how many games to play.
Pro Runs smoothly
Being that there is not much graphics to push the game runs very smoothly on all devices.
Pro Ads are opt-in
Advertisements are not on by default, user need to turn them on in the settings. This allows the user to decide if they want to contribute to the dev, which is a remarkably clever way to go about allowing users to support a free app.
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 Advertisements can slow down the game
The optional advertisements, when turned on do slow the game down a little bit, which can detract from the gameplay.