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Caves of Qud

Freehold Games Developer

Freehold Games Publisher

2015-07-15 Release

Indie Strategy RPG Singleplayer EATags

Game News Posts: 447

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Overwhelmingly Positive (9464 reviews)

http://www.cavesofqud.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Caves of Qud - Linux [214.01 M]

Available DLCs:

Caves of Qud - Pet Pack 1

Feature Friday - July 24, 2021

201.114/202.74

If you already have Burrowing Claws, taking a skulk tonic now boosts its level.
Creatures who feel victimized by inanimate objects no longer become retributively angry, usually.
In order to bask, photosynthetic skin mutants must now be able to move their extremities and not be in combat.
Items marked as important no longer show up in the picker for donating at the Sacred Well.
Books marked as important now ask for confirmation before you donate them to Sheba Hagadias.
Roads that pass through Bey Lah and its outskirts now connect properly.
Data disks now display the shortened names of the items they build.
Fixed a bug that caused diagonal autowalk to allow zone transitions.
Fixed some inconsistency in the appearance of data disks for gaslight weapons.
Fixed a bug that made overloaded laser pistols continue to appear as a distinct objects from laser pistols.
Fixed a bug that caused skulk tonics to display endless popups if you lost your burrowing claws or dark vision before the tonic duration expired.
Fixed a bug that caused zone building to sometimes fail if you saved and reloaded on the world map.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused you to forget things too frequently with Amensia.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused quest steps based on visiting a zone to complete before you visited the zone.
Fixed a bug that caused ruins to build endlessly if a door was animated.
Fixed a bug that caused the entrance to Oboroqoru's lair to build endlessly if there was a tree in the northwest corner.
Fixed a bug that caused the up and down stairs in Oboroqoru's lair to be disconnected if you approached them from below.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused the hollowed tree to generate too close to Bey Lah.
Fixed a bug that caused the hollowed tree to generate without floor tiles and Bey Lah's outskirts to generate with grass instead of flowers.
Fixed an exception when cancelling aggression.

[ 2021-07-24 04:35:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth?

Who are you?

Play the role of a mutant indigenous to the salt-spangled dunes and jungles of Qud, or play a pure-strain descendant from one of the few remaining eco-domes—the toxic arboreta of Ekuemekiyye, the Holy City; the ice-sheathed arcology of Ibul; or the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon.

You arrive at the oasis-hamlet of Joppa, along the far rim of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. All around you, moisture farmers tend to groves of viridian watervine. There are huts wrought from rock salt and brinestalk. On the horizon, Qud's jungles strangle chrome steeples and rusted archways to the earth. Further and beyond, the fabled Spindle rises above the fray and pierces the cloud-ribboned sky.

You clutch your rifle, or your vibroblade, or your tattered scroll, or your poisonous stinger, or your hypnotized goat. You approach a watervine farmer—he lifts the brim of his straw hat and says, "Live and drink, friend."

What can you do?

Anything and everything. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world.

Assemble your character from over 70 mutations and defects and 24 castes and kits—outfit yourself with wings, two heads, quills, four arms, flaming hands, or the power to clone yourself—it's all the character diversity you could want.
Explore procedurally-generated regions with some familiar locations—each world is nearly 1 million maps large.

Dig through everything—don't like the wall blocking your way? Dig through it with a pickaxe, or eat through it with your corrosive gas mutation, or melt it to lava. Yes, every wall has a melting point.
Hack the limbs off monsters—every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player. That means they have levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. So if you have a mutation that lets you, say, psionically dominate a spider, you can traipse through the world as a spider, laying webs and eating things.
Pursue allegiances with over 60 factions—apes, crabs, robots, and highly entropic beings—just to name a few.
Follow the plot to Barathrum the Old, a sentient cave bear who leads a sect of tinkers intent on restoring technological splendor to Qud.
Learn the lore—there's a story in every nook, from legendary items with storied pasts to in-game history books written by plant historians.
Die—Caves of Qud is brutally difficult and deaths are permanent. Don't worry, though—you can always roll a new character.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 18.04. and CentOS 7
Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support.Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
Storage: 2 GB available space

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