Cave Guessers

About this game

Cave Guessers is a casual game with 5 different game modes for 2 to 16 players. Pick a prompt and then either describe it using concepts, words, music, or lights and shadows! Or receive one-word clues from your fellow players and try to guess a prompt yourself! Combine any game modes into a personal tournament for an epic battle for most points!


Game modes:

Watch your words

Here it’s all about words! Describe away but make sure not to use any of the prohibited terms in your text. Did you start typing an illegal term? Just delete it, right? Well… anything typed is set in stone, — you have been caught! That’s one less point for you, but don’t worry. Just try to make it up before your time has run out!

Break it down

Explain your prompt using concepts only! So what’s a book? A rectangular object of small to medium size, made of organic material and found in urban locations. Hm.. that could also be a wooden board! But no sweat! To narrow it down, guessing players receive some clues.

What’s that tune?

Pick from a list of popular songs and tickle your melodic brain! Try to re-compose the song using the instruments provided! Don’t worry, it’s enough to know a few seconds of the song, and you don’t *have* to hit the right pitch. At the end listen to all compositions and try to guess the underlying songs!

Shadow on the Wall

Combine several shapes to cast shadows or coloured lights onto the cave wall. Can your friends recognize the item shown? Or is that snake shadow you have created just a bit too similar to a river?

NEW: One or None

Here everyone knows the keyword – except you! Your fellow players try to give you one-word hints to help you find it. If only they had chosen unique words instead of the same, most obvious clue! Any duplicates are removed; can you figure out the prompt with the few hints remaining?


You’re done with the default word lists? Create your own via the in-game editor and publish it to the Steam Workshop. Or browse the Workshop for items already published!

With Twitch integration! Stream and play with your chat!

Latest news

• Patch Notes·28 Feb 2023Official

  Patch Notes for 28 February 2023

  - Fixed a critical issue in Explain and Compose mode when Twitch was connected - fixed minor text issue in editor
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• Patch Notes·10 Jan 2023Official

  Patch Notes for 10 January 2023

  ### Fixes - fix “Watch your words” input allowing to replace previous characters in certain scenarios - fix localisation issues - fix errors in score table when another player takes a long time to join - fix errors in “Shadow on the wall” with handles after a shadow was removed
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• Patch Notes·22 Dec 2022Official

  New game mode for the holiday update! Merry Xmas and a happy new year!

  ### Features & Improvements - A whole new game mode! Check out "One or none!", where players have to give each other hints so the guesser can figure out what the original word was! But beware, duplicate hints will be deleted! Grab your family and friends and try it over the coming days! - Players can now open the tournament configurator by clicking on the current game summary - increased sensitivity on every scrollbar for a smoother scrolling experience - added subtle lighting effects to the stone edges in every game mode ### Fixes - fixed that names in tournament configurator were not reflecting language changes - fixed some missing tooltips on buttons - fixed game length estimations in lobby not working for estimations longer than an hour - “Whats that tune”: fixed hiding the song title after voting for a song - fixed word editor for “Break it down” not showing content of text input box
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• Patch Notes·8 Dec 2022Official

  Patch Notes for 08 December 2022

  ### Features & Improvements - Made the Pause screen more interesting by allowing players to chat and showing the score - Add new control hints (Search-function in “Break it down”, Score-board on IntroScreens) - Tinted dialogue boxes in warmer colours - Spiced up the visuals for inputboxes everywhere ### Fixes - Make transitions in “Break it down” faster and fix a rare issue where animations could be interrupted, which left concepts being invisible - Add some missing letters to our font
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• Patch Notes·1 Dec 2022Official

  Patch Notes for 01 December 2022

  ### Features & Improvements - Break it down: Introduced a search function for easier navigation of concepts - Public game list now displays all active games regardless of language - Separate game language from wordlist language, they are now individually selectable - Break it down: Brightened up the concept glyphs to make their colours even more vibrant! ### Fixes - Fixed some localisation issues - Fixed an issue where people could get stuck in a game if the host paused and then left during the pause - Fixed an issue where the displayed estimated game time was wrong on clients
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