Posted on: January 6, 2025
abotvinnik
Verified ownerGames: 7 Reviews: 2
Terrible game.
Terrible, terrible game. No idea what to do here.
Is this helpful to you?
Error loading patrons. Please refresh the page and try again.
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Caves of Qud
Description
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?
NOTICE: a complete development roadmap can be accessed here.
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."
NOTICE: a complete development roadmap can be accessed here.
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.
Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Freehold Games, LLC
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Recommended system requirements:
Time to beat
43 hMain
70.5 h Main + Sides
503 h Completionist
90 h All Styles
Game length provided by HowLongToBeat
Game details
Genre:
Tags:
Languages
English
audio
text
DLCs
Critics reviews
Eurogamer
5/5
Densely imagined and as complex as you fancy, this roguelike RPG is brilliant.
Read full review »PC Gamer
94/100
Caves of Qud is a genre-defining achievement in play, story, and roleplaying freedom.
Read full review »Metro GameCentral
4.5/5
A staggering achievement in terms of role-playing interactivity and flexibility, that also manages to be both accessible and maintain a fun sense of the absurd.
Read full review »
Reviews powered by
OpenCritic
User reviews
Posted on: November 20, 2023
Early Access review
dablob448
Verified ownerGames: 76 Reviews: 1
Great game, "try" it before buying!
Hey Hey People. Incredibly fun game with great setting and gameplay. Mod support is mediocre for GOG, most hosted on steam. Bought because of sseth's review, didnt realize devs called him and his community fascists. Devs dont seem to have learned and continue act in a unproffesional manner for disagreeing with their political leaning. Pepe was banned on their official discord server LMAO
Is this helpful to you?
Posted on: December 15, 2024
Zero_Umbra
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 2
shit ass controls
shit ass controls made by someone older then the commodore 64, if they think these are acutally accepable
Is this helpful to you?
Posted on: July 3, 2022
Early Access review
Crash0verdrive93
Verified ownerGames: 127 Reviews: 1
Great game terrible devs
Great game, don’t support the devs as they are some of the most toxic people you would ever meet. They get mad if anyone of a different political opinion or anyone engaging in “wrongthink” even reviews this game, ( see the Ssethtzeentach drama) this and no mod support make the game not worth buying. TLDR devs hate you and you can’t mod the game.
Is this helpful to you?
Posted on: March 3, 2019
Early Access review
LePeureux
Games: 102 Reviews: 40
Forever Early Access Trash
GoG is starting to add some forever early access titles but unlike Steam does not enforce any standards like having clear details on the current state of EA, or the estimated release date. The devs don't even have an estimated roadmap and are just feature creeping in EA to avoid criticism.
Is this helpful to you?
Something went wrong. Try refresh page.
This game is waiting for a review. Take the first shot!
Add a review
Edit a review
Your rating:
Stars and all fields are required
Not sure what to say? Start with this:
- What kept you playing?
- What kind of gamer would enjoy this?
- Was the game fair, tough, or just right?
- What’s one feature that really stood out?
- Did the game run well on your setup?
Inappropriate content. Your reviews contain bad language.
Inappropriate content. Links are not allowed.
Inappropriate content. Content contains gibberish.
Review title is too short.
Review title is too long.
Review description is too short.
Review description is too long.
Not sure what to write?
Show:
5 on page
15 on page
30 on page
60 on page
Order by:
Most helpful
Most positive
Most critical
Most recent
Filters:
No reviews matching your criteria
Written in
English
Deutsch
polski
français
русский
中文(简体)
Others
Written by
Verified ownersOthers
Added
Last 30 daysLast 90 daysLast 6 monthsWheneverAfter releaseDuring Early Access