When comparing The Cave vs Mount Your Friends, the Slant community recommends The Cave for most people. In the question“What are the best Local Co-Op games on Steam?” The Cave is ranked 10th while Mount Your Friends is ranked 37th. 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 Good amount of content for price
Coming in at $4.99 there is actually quite a few modes of play as well as local multiplayer, not to mention a character editor. For the price there is actually a good bit to do in the game making for a nice amount of longevity.
Pro Easy to pick up
The simplicity of the main game makes it easy for anyone to grasp the concept in seconds - people know very quickly whether they will like it or not.
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 Keyboard controls do not work as well as controller
Being that the game was originally designed for consoles the controls work best with a controller. The keyboard controls feel a bit off and are more difficult.