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Crystal Caves HD

The best miner in the Galaxy is back! Revisit the 3 original episodes in spectacular HD and guide Mylo through a brand new episode featuring new enemies, break away platforms and new biomes! Ramp up the excitement and compete against your friends on the online leaderboards, collect all 32 achievements and because we’re old school developers, there’s a Secret Level that’s quite revealing! Help Mylo get that burger joint all over again by guiding him through the original 3 episodes in HD! All new achievements will have you competing for that top position of the online leaderboard! Unearth exciti

Release date
October 15, 2020
Platforms
Windows, Linux
Developer
Emberheart Games
Publisher
Apogee Entertainment
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The best miner in the Galaxy is back! Revisit the 3 original episodes in spectacular HD and guide Mylo through a brand new episode featuring new enemies, break away platforms and new biomes! Ramp up the excitement and compete against your friends on the online leaderboards, collect all 32 achievements and because we’re old school developers, there’s a Secret Level that’s quite revealing! Help Mylo get that burger joint all over again by guiding him through the original 3 episodes in HD!

All new achievements will have you competing for that top position of the online leaderboard! Unearth exciting adventures in the all new Crystal Caves Episode, with challenging puzzles, action oriented hazards and rewards, featuring sandworms, break away platforms and much more! Be the first to earn all the achievements including discovering the “Secret of the Volcano”! Challenge your friends to beat your own adventures using our built-in level editor New Difficulty levels, Saved Games, New OST in the classic style and finally get that damn hard crystal!

Modernizing the visuals of a classic game in HD in the mind of a gamer isn’t enough. A true remastering of a classic game must mean preserving everything that made the original game challenging, fun and addictive, well we did this and more with Crystal Caves by incorporating a new vibrant color pallet to the not only the gameplay action but the storyboard elements as well.…

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★ 9.2/10GOG · 95 ratings
GOGLast checked November 2, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 5 / 5
Few things this year have made me happier than booting up a new game release beginning with the familiar sound of Apogee's fanfare music accompanied…
★ 5 / 5
Back in time I loved the game in EGA and was kind of concerned when I read about an "HD remake". In fact the modernisation…
★ 5 / 5
tl;dr The game is almost the same as the original with improved graphics, music soundtrack, bonus episode and some extra stuff (level editor and leaderboard)…
★ 5 / 5
In short: This is a GREAT remake that preserves the old touch and I like it very much! I really liked the original game back…
★ 5 / 5
I didn't have a PC when this came out and the times when I had access to one I never got to play this, nor…
★ 5 / 5
When this game was released, I wasn't particularly impressed. A decent game, sure, but not really in the same league as Commander Keen, Duke Nukem,…
★ 5 / 5
First of all, I must say that there's a lot of nostalgia behind this title for me. The original Crystal Caves is one of the…
★ 5 / 5
The levels in Crystal Caves HD can be challenging. I often need a couple of attempts to get the jumps and the puzzles right. However,…

Most recent8

★ 5 / 5
I love the game my mom used to play it and now i play it
★ 5 / 5
My favorite game, allways will be. Such a great upgrade with all the extra's and playing it in HD
★ 5 / 5
Fun simple game, easy to jump in and play a few levels casually. This HD version is graphics is nice and smooth, so worth a…
★ 3 / 5
.....Because if you are new-comer (which I'm not) the game has quite the ''out-dated'' gameplay of the past , but in contrast to other Apogee's…
★ 4 / 5
Exactly as I remembered from when it came out. Could have more levels.
★ 5 / 5
I played this game in my youth and had a great time. This is exactly how I remember it, except for the herculean effort I…

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