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

Meet Kitfox Games! They are co-publishing Caves of Qud 1.0 with us!

Hey friends! We want to introduce you to a couple of our friends at Kitfox Games, community manager Alexandra and director Tanya. Kitfox is here to help us ring in a new era of Caves of Qud development. Today, we'd like to all announce together that the game will fully launch out of Early Access next year, 2024! Kitfox will be helping us do that, and hopefully as many people as possible will enjoy the fruits of those efforts. We made a new trailer to announce the upcoming launch and publishing partnership, so please do watch it and send it to those of your friends who weirdly haven't bought the game yet for some reason: [previewyoutube=2c6burNvtsU;full][/previewyoutube] If you like the new visual effects you see in the trailer, you can check 'em out in game now, on the beta branch! (right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch) Feature Fridays will continue, as well as everything else we normally do, but we'll also be popping up regularly with news and updates surrounding other ways to chat and hype and enjoy the game together. For example, you're welcome to join the Qud channel on the Kitfox Discord server, or come meet some Kitfoxes at the Gamescom booth this year, where we'll be showing Qud to mystified Germans alongside Dwarf Fortress. Kitfox will probably livestream the game on their Twitch channel in the coming days or weeks, so keep an eye out there too, if you want to hang with some fellow mutants or even give them a few pointers on how best to enjoy our journey under the salt sun. You can sign up for our email newsletter for updates directly to your inbox! Excitedly, Brian (AlphaBeard), Jason (ptychomancer), Alexandra & Tanya

[ 2023-07-28 13:51:02 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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