Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

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

Gamepad support + new Abilities screen beta is now live!

Hi there, We've been working on some UI features, including better gamepad support, a more robust input manager, and a whole new Abilities screen. That work is now live on the beta branch! If you'd like to help us test it, right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. Note: previous saves won't be compatible with this beta. Please post your bugs here. Live and drink, friends.

Merged all input managers down to one, meaning you no longer have to change settings for gamepad to work.
Made keyboard & gamepad input much more robust across the board.
We added a new Abilities screen ('a').
- Added icons for every ability.
- Added in-depth, dynamic descriptions for many abilities (the rest to come).
- You can reorder abilities on the Abilities screen and they will also reorder in your hotbar.
We made several enhancements to the ability hotbar.
- Your abilities are now automatically hotkeyed. You can change the hotkeys from the Abilities screen.
- Added hotkeys for scrolling through your hotbars (default ctrl+1 - ctrl+5).
- New ability icons also appear on the hotbar.
Added the new ability icons to the old UI sidebar. They also now respect the order of abilities on your ability screen.
Added a new, highly visible autoexplore danger indicator.
Holding down movement keys to move quickly is now safeguarded by the autoexplore danger indicator.
Added gamepad button glyphs for Xbox and PlayStation controllers wherever the UI indicates a button bind.

[ 2023-06-27 22:21:21 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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