For those of you who spent your time in computer class playing QWOP (you know who you are), developer/publisher Ovsko has something to take you back with The Cave Diver, a “physics-horror adventure” game due out this fall on Steam that puts you in a cave system of “claustrophobic caverns and ancient horrors.”

The premise of The Cave Diver takes place over generations of spelunkers, starting with the first cave diver. For generations his family has told stories of a rare flower that grows deep at the bottom of the nearby cave system. They say the flower can cure any ailment- even paraplegia of the legs (which plagues this particular family). Every man who has entered the cave has failed to return.

Some say it’s the cave itself that takes them. Others speak of of something else, an ancient evil that’s been there before man himself. If the first cave diver never makes it back, his next of kin will surely be the one to return home. If not him, then someone else. Or someone after him…

As you might expect, you control the cave diver’s arms in order to propel yourself forward as you explore the cave. Each arm of the cave diver will aim towards a cursor that is controlled with either the mouse or analog stick. Each hand has a dedicated button to grab on to surfaces or physics objects. By using your grip and learning to pull your upper body, you will navigate through the caves,
dangerous gaps, and physical puzzles.

As you explore the caves, you can place down different markers which will help map out which routes are either unexplored, dangerous, unnecessary, or correct. Each time you get stuck and restart, these markers will remain in the cave as a guide for your next run as a new cave diver. The only way to lose is to give up.