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Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Caves of Qud is a procedural generation, turn-based combat and open world game
developed by Freehold Games
and published by Kitfox Games.
Released on December 05th 2024 is available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 11,914 reviews of which 11,199 were positive and 715 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 30.49€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Caves of Qud into these genres:
Procedural Generation
Turn-Based Combat
Open World
Turn-Based
Transhumanism
Sci-fi
Traditional Roguelike
Replay Value
Roguelike
RPG
Story Rich
Character Customization
Pixel Graphics
Survival
Atmospheric
CRPG
Difficult
Singleplayer
Moddable
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 21H1, Windows 11 21H2
- Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support.
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics card: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable
- Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Big Sur 11+
- Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support.
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics card: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04
- Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support.
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics card: OpenGL 3.2+, Vulkan capable
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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-Make a build with thick fur. -Game gives me a quest to go to Red Rock. -Baboons. -Figure out they are not hostile bcuz of my fur. -Figure out I can trade with baboons cause they are not hostile. -Walk up to a baboon who was pelting a poor goat with stones. -Make an offer for all of their stones for my leather armor. -The baboon accepted. -watch the baboon get gored by the goat and die horribly bcuz they no longer had their stones to protect themself. -Loot the armor I traded them off their corpse 10/10 game. No notes \_(•-•)_/⠀⠀ absolute cinema
This game is the answer to the question: What if Gene Wolfe was more of an Old Testament guy? Much like The Book of the New Sun, the series of novels from which Caves of Qud draws heavily, this game is a favorite of mine. The world building prose is the best I've read in any game. It may be the best in any piece of media I've ever consumed, Wolfe notwithstanding. Descriptions of items, places, and characters are so quaint and poetic. Even the description of something as simple as a fan you might stumble upon in some ancient ruins takes you somewhere far away, to another place and time where things you can't even imagine were happening without you. You almost get the sense that the developers are seeing everything for the first time, and you are too, or that they're translating what they've seen through some long-lost language. Everything mundane around you is actually fantastical. There's an aura of mystery about everything. Everywhere you go, you find yourself asking, "what happened here? Who were these people? What were their works?" Yes, I'd say this game is somewhere between The Book of the New Sun and Ozymandias, with some Old Testament thrown in. Oh, the gameplay is decent - it's pretty fun, but can be frustrating. Turn-based roguelike. There are plenty of playstyles and a good variety of weapons and items. It's pretty fine-tuned at this point, but there are still some things that will instantly kill you if you're unlucky enough to stumble into their parasang. I don't bother with the roguelike mode, because I want to explore freely and experience the world. The soundtrack and the soundscape in general fits the world so well. Wailing parade horns when you enter a city. The haunting, revving roars of beasts or machines when you're lost in the jungles. Playful low-key xylophonic tinkling when you're speaking to the local tinkerer. Now that the story is complete, I can say that this game is a must-buy. If it sounds interesting to you at all, I guarantee it will not disappoint you.
i'm not much for writing reviews -- i'm not very good at them. but this game is spectacular. i'm old. so i played rogue. and angband, and zangband. most importantly, i played mission: thunderbolt. which, i suspect, few people have. this is the perfect successor. it's difficult. it's deep. it's quirky. i'm only on my second or third run, but i suspect it is infinitely replayable. if you understand the words that i wrote above. you must play this game. if you don't understand, you should play it anyways.
I've owned this game for 4 years and despite continually being drawn back to it, I just didn't get it. I could see the potential and really wanted to enjoy it, but it was too overwhelming and I just couldn't get my head around it. Well, finally 4 years later and with 36 hours in game, I get it now. I'm still dying all the time and have so much more to see and understand, but I'm having so much fun. Here are some tips that helped make it click for me: - Play classic mode and just randomize everything each time you make a character. It's easy to get decision fatigue from so many options, so just roll the dice instead and make do with what you have. Each time you play you'll get exposed to new mutations, abilities, strengths and weaknesses. - Familiarise yourself with whatever abilities you rolled, use them as much as you can. - If you don't know what to do, start with the Joppa quests. It might feel repetitive, but you'll encounter various things (that are random each run) while traveling across the map trying to complete them. - Use autoexplore, even on the surface. Use it in Joppa and the graveyard to the north. It'll help you discover things you might not otherwise have noticed as a new player. - Always examine new unfamiliar enemies first, don't just go in swinging. Get a feel for their toughness first. - At the beginning, rest between every fight until you're healed and restore your abilities! - Run away when health gets low, when you see a tough enemy, or when positioning is not in your favour. Use the sprint ability liberally. If an area is too crazy, go and do something else until you level up, just wander around elsewhere until you see some action. - You don't need to get to the bottom of each dungeon. Underground goes very deep and it gets tougher and tougher - grab what you need then get out and go elsewhere. Most quests give XP and being on the surface gives you a chance to restock. You can always come back when more powerful. Eventually, after dying dozens of times you'll start to work out which mutations, attributes etc. you want to pick instead of randomising everything. This game was a slow burn for me, but it's so worth it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Caves of Qud is currently priced at 30.49€ on Steam.
No, Caves of Qud is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 30.49€ on Steam.
Yes, Caves of Qud received 11,199 positive votes out of a total of 11,914 achieving an impressive rating of 9.14.
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Caves of Qud was developed by Freehold Games and published by Kitfox Games.
Yes, Caves of Qud is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Caves of Qud is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Yes, Caves of Qud is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Yes, Caves of Qud is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Caves of Qud is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Caves of Qud does not support VR.
Caves of Qud is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 2 DLCs available for Caves of Qud. Explore additional content available for Caves of Qud on Steam.
Yes, Caves of Qud is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
No, Caves of Qud does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Caves of Qud 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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Developer
Freehold Games
Publisher
Kitfox Games
Release
05 Dec 2024
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