![]() ![]() “Narratively, this is one of the most compelling game stories that I’ve seen in a long time.” -Charlie Hall, Polygon ![]() “ Caves of Qud is one of the best roguelikes in years, packed with evocative prose and featuring a captivating world of arcane secrets to explore.” -Heather Alexandra, Kotaku “There’s a sense of magnificent history to dredge from its depths.” -Chris Priestman, Kill Screen Don't worry, though-you can always roll a new character. ![]() ![]() Die- Caves of Qud is brutally difficult and deaths are permanent.A novel's worth of handwritten lore is knit into a procedurally-generated history that's different every game. 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.Follow the plot to Barathrum the Old, a sentient cave bear who leads a sect of tinkers intent on restoring technological splendor to Qud.Pursue allegiances with over 60 factions-apes, crabs, robots, and highly entropic beings-just to name a few.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. That means they have levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. Hack the limbs off monsters-every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player.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.Explore procedurally-generated regions with some familiar locations-each world is nearly 1 million maps large.Assemble your character from over 70 mutations and defects, 24 castes and kits, and dozens of cybernetic implants-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.You approach a watervine farmer-he lifts the brim of his straw hat and says, "Live and drink, friend."Ĭaves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world. You clutch your rifle, or your vibroblade, or your tattered scroll, or your poisonous stinger, or your hypnotized goat. Further and beyond, the fabled Spindle rises above the fray and pierces the cloud-ribboned sky. On the horizon, Qud's jungles strangle chrome steeples and rusted archways to the earth. There are huts wrought from rock salt and brinestalk. All around you, moisture farmers tend to groves of viridian watervine. You arrive at the oasis-hamlet of Joppa, along the far rim of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. 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. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth? Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through a layer cake of thousand-year-old civilizations. Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. ![]()
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