Hey friends, Its Alexandra from Kitfox here with a quick update on how things are going. Development has started again after the Freehold Team was on a much deserved break! As we mentioned last month, the major focus post-1.0 will be to explore localization and porting to mobile and consoles but theres so much more in the works. Theres a couple of updates you can expect in the next few weeks: February 28th This week there will be a maintenance patch on the main branch with bug fixes. March 7th Then we have the initial 'beta' branch release of 1.1, including an upgrade to Unity 6 and Windows 64-bit builds. No new game features yet, just technical and modding platform updates for now. Future After that, the team will return to a regular maintenance fix cadence, probably slower than weekly updates. The team is also building the technical localization API, and starting builds for mobile & consoles but we are just in the very early stages of this so we will have more to say later. We are excited for more folks to be able to play Caves of Qud! See you in the next one. -Alexandra
[ 2025-02-26 20:56:00 CET ] [ Original post ]
- Caves of Qud - Linux [214.01 M]
- Caves of Qud - Pet Pack 1
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.
- 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
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