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Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!

Cathedral is a action, indie and metroidvania game developed and published by Decemberborn Interactive.
Released on October 31st 2019 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 417 reviews of which 313 were positive and 104 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.15€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Cathedral into these genres:

Action Indie Metroidvania Adventure Pixel Graphics Retro Platformer 2D Difficult Side Scroller Singleplayer

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7, 8 or 10, 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5 2.3GHz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, 512 MB or equivalent
Storage: 60 MB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X 10 or newer
Processor: Intel Core i5 2.3GHz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, 512 MB or equivalent
Storage: 60 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 or later
Processor: Intel Core i5 2.3GHz or equivalent
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, 512 MB or equivalent

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2026

Recommendation Armed with an 8-bit aesthetic and chiptune soundtrack both very reminiscent of Yacht Club game's Shovel Knight, Cathedral takes a more action-adventure/Metroidvania approach to the retro 2D platformer. With its solid presentation; simple but snappy combat; and expansive world map full of platforming challenges, puzzles, treasure, upgrades, and secrets to find; Cathedral manages to occupy itself a very strong place among the C-listers in the genre -- alas, the C-list is as high as it goes, as its uneven and sometimes bloated level design, spiky difficulty, and extremely frustrating final stretch hold it back from being placed amongst more vaunted company. This one's a full recommendation -- but just barely . 6.5/10

Nov. 2025

This one had been sitting in my backlog for quite a while, but I'm so glad I gave it a chance. Rogue Legacy movement and combat in a Castlevania 2 style setting with cryptic hints, good puzzles, and 30 hours of content. I'd honestly put this above Blasphemous on my personal ranking list.

July 2025

Definitely on the more difficult side of metroidvanias (like Hollow Knight or Aeterna Noctis).As far as progression goes, the game is rather linear and sometimes a little nonsensical - you may need to trigger a cutscene to make an NPC spawn in a completely different area that opens a gate for you in order to progress. There's some minor annoyances with the camera when you're moving vertically, but other than that it plays well. The bosses are unique and challenging. A number of the upgrades you can find are inconsequential, but the ones that are significant really make a difference. The difficulty curve's a little awkward as armor upgrades in new towns are big upgrades and so the areas immediately before those upgrades are tougher than others. I really liked the music as well, though I can see people not liking the weird breakdown sections most songs have. Overall, I really enjoyed Cathedral. It's my second favorite metroidvania, behind Hollow Knight

July 2025

The game is ok. About a 6/10 in my book. Exploration is too ambitious than rewarding, padding the overall pacing. I got this game for $5 so I'm not going to be too harsh. Overall, the game is fine. Level design is to be desired. If the maps had more upgrades, more bosses, less money grinding, and overall smaller map size this would have been an 8/10 easily. It is what it is.

June 2025

That's a crazy one, it feels like playing an arcade game with frantic combat. The retro inspiration is not hidden, and it's also quite challenging, the bosses had me giving my all to survive and win. The gameplay is fast and dirty, you will need to crush the enemies. The map had a nice marker system, and there were interesting ideas with progression abilities. The main progression was quite linear and not many side areas beyond some collectibles. Some people might hate a number of design decisions taken by the game. After beating the game I feel satisfied and full, will go take some rest.

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Cathedral is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

Cathedral is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

Cathedral received 313 positive votes out of a total of 417 achieving a rating of 7.10.

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Cathedral was developed and published by Decemberborn Interactive.

Cathedral is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Cathedral is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Cathedral is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Cathedral is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Cathedral. Explore additional content available for Cathedral on Steam.

Cathedral does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Cathedral does not support Steam Remote Play.

Cathedral is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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