Hey friends, Its been a while since weve had a big news post, so we want to give you an update as we head towards our 1.0 launch at the end of the year. We dont have a more specific release date yet, but we will let you know as soon as we do... The team has reached some major milestones in completing the enormous amount of detail work it takes to get Qud to 1.0. We recently finished rewriting descriptions for the 2,000+ (!!!) objects in the game. Heres the last one we did: its trash.
We also finished activated ability descriptions, message log messages, sound effects for everything in the game (over 1,000). And we fixed some long-standing bug chains with cooking, cloning, and creature attitudes. So what is left to do? Aside from more detail, there are two major pieces. First is the tutorial, which were designing specifically to teach the very basics of Qud and help new players get their footing. Were far along and will be making it available to Patreon backers and private testers soon. Second is the endgame. How do you end a game like Caves of Qud? Well, weve had the outline for 15 years, and were finally making good on it. Endings are hard, we take the task very seriously, and to be frank: we are absolutely cooking! Cant say anything else yet, but were so excited to share it soon.

As we head into the endgame

The Price is Going Up. After much consideration to many factors, including how far the game has come since our Early Access launch in 2015, weve decided to raise the price on October 29th to $29.99 USD (and the OST to $9.99). This will be the final price heading into 1.0. We wanted to give as much notice as possible so that folks can get the game at its current price and take advantage of the 10% off sale running now. Please tell your friends whove been on the fence to pick up the game before the price goes up![/olist] We are nearly there, and were feeling it: excited, exhausted, etc. Were committed to having these last few updates put a satisfying capstone on the game while also welcoming new players with (multiple) open arms. Thank you so much to everyone who has stuck with us for the long haul. Soon...
Live and drink!

[ 2024-09-18 19:11:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Who are you?

What can you do?

• 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.

• OS: 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