Cave Survivor
YoungHo Choi Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Cave Survivor is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by YoungHo Choi. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated January 29, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 313 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Jan 29
- 2026 · v1.0.3
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About Cave Survivor
Cave Survivor is an action survival game where you become a small plush guardian protecting your owner from invading nightmares. Every night, dark and dangerous dream creatures appear and threaten your owner’s peaceful sleep. As a brave plush companion, your mission is to defeat these nightmares and keep the dreams safe for as long as possible. Control your character with simple and intuitive controls, defeat endless waves of nightmare monsters, and grow stronger by collecting and upgrading various equipment. As time passes, the nightmares become faster and more powerful, testing your reflexes and strategy. Game Features: - Unique concept as a plush guardian protecting dreams - Endless survival-style action combat - Simple controls with challenging gameplay - Equipment collection and character growth - Increasing difficulty for constant challenge - Designed for both short play sessions and long-term play Cave Survivor supports online features for game data synchronization. Optional in-app purchases are available, but all core gameplay content can be enjoyed without making any purchases. Protect your owner’s peaceful sleep, defeat the endless nightmares, and become the ultimate dream guardian.
What’s new
Version 1.0.3 · Updated January 29, 2026
Ranking Mode Balance Adjustment - Reduced enemy stat scaling in Ranking Mode to improve long-term playability. - Enemy HP and Attack growth per wave have been adjusted to scale more smoothly over extended runs. - Difficulty spikes in late waves have been eased to provide a fairer and more consistent challenge. - This change aims to better reward player skill, build optimization, and endurance rather than raw stat pressure.
App privacy
The developer, YoungHo Choi, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
- Contact Info: Email Address
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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