When comparing The Cave vs Evolve Stage 2, the Slant community recommends The Cave for most people. In the question“What are the best team-based games on Steam?”The Cave is ranked 8th while Evolve Stage 2 is ranked 29th. The most important reason people chose The Cave is:

The Cave has a good sense of humor within, something expected when considering the game was created by the same people as The Secret of Monkey Island.

Pros

Pro

Cheesy jokes of the best kind

The Cave has a good sense of humor within, something expected when considering the game was created by the same people as The Secret of Monkey Island.

Pro

3 player local co-op

The Cave supports up to 3 player local co-op play. Sadly there is no online co-op.

Pro

Characters based on 7 deadly sins

Each character represents one of the seven deadly sins making the game a bit of a moral tale.

Pro

4v1 FPS gameplay

Evolve's gameplay is based around a simple asymmetric dynamic of four vs one.

Pro

Varied gameplay options created by different classes and variations on classess

Each of the different classes will be able to level up and fine tune their weapon loadouts, allowing for a wide array of options.

Cons

Con

Tedious level design

There is a lot of backtracking and lever pulling that gives a feeling of lazy level design to elongate the game.

Con

Co-op may leave one or two players out on certain stages

Some stages do not offer gameplay for all co-op players. Although the co-op is drop in drop out, certain points of the game do not offer anything for the other players to do.

Con

Pre-order unlocks

Evolve will allow anyone who pre-orders the game to have all monsters unlocked from the start. Something that will not be true for normal post release paying customers. What this means is that the grind that is necessary to unlock the monsters is pretty much superfluous and only there to incentivize pre-order money (getting money before anyone finds out if the game is good or not) as well as falsely lengthen the game with monotonous tasks allowing the creators to keep their player-base playing the until more DLC is released.