Cave Story+

* Knowing what very specific actions you have to take for the best ending requires a guide and is super-easy to miss.

The gameplay, story, music, characters, map design, and atmosphere are all just soooo good.

I played with original textures and original soundtrack.

I played with original textures and original soundtrack.

I say all of this as, despite this being a great port offered on Steam, this is arguably not the best version of this game as the one for Nintendo Switch under the same name is currently being updated by Nicalis, with further new content such as entire new characters to play as through it's unique 2 player co-op mode alongside other gameplay and graphical improvements, as they have seemingly stopped updating this game since 2018 for the most part.

First and foremost, while this version has some new features over the original freeware version, those being updated graphics and new music, but what you're NOT getting with the PC version of Cave Story+ that the later produced Switch port received are a wealth of new content such as new challenge modes, Easy and Hard difficulty options, local co-op multiplayer, further visual improvements (e.g. animated dialogue portraits, new dynamic lighting effects), extra soundtrack options, and native widescreen presentation.