# Caves of Qud

Summer DB entity ID: 799792b6\-6663\-48e7\-8884\-5c4168cd697b

Steam App ID: 333640

Caves of Qud is a Hugo Award\-winning science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants\. Come inhabit a living, breathing world and chisel through layers of thousand\-year\-old civilizations\. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth?           Do anything and everything\. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world\.     DEEP PHYSICAL SIMULATION  — 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\.     FULLY SIMULATED CREATURES  — 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\.     DYNAMIC FACTION SYSTEM  — Pursue allegiances with over 70 factions: apes, crabs, trees, robots, and highly entropic beings, just to name a few\.     RICHLY DETAILED SCIENCE FANTASY SETTING  — Over fifteen years of worldbuilding have led to a rich, weird, labyrinthine, one\-of\-a\-kind storyworld, layered on top of the simulation, all for you to explore\. Live and drink, friend\.     TACTICAL GAMEPLAY  — Turn\-based, sandbox exploration and combat offers as many solutions as you and your mutations, implants, artifacts, and skills are creative enough to invent\.     RPG ELEMENTS  — Quests, NPCs, villages, historic sites; some dynamic and some handwritten, interwoven to produce a transportative RPG experience\.     ATMOSPHERIC ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK  — Over two hours of otherworldly music to delve to\.                 Caves of Qud has one of the most expressive character creators of all time\.    Play the role of a mutant indigenous to the salt\-spangled dunes and jungles of Qud, or play a true kin descendant from one of the few remaining eco\-domes — the toxic arboreta of Ekuemekiyye, the ice\-sheathed arcology of Ibul, or the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon\.    Build your character out of:      Over 70 mutations — outfit yourself with wings, two heads, four arms, flaming hands, teleportation, the power to clone yourself…    Dozens of cybernetic implants \(and more to find as treasure\) — night vision, translucent skin, carbide fists, spring\-loaded ankle tendons…    24 castes and kits from across the social order of Qud and beyond Moghra’yi, the Great Salt Desert    Too overwhelmed to build a character from scratch? Choose one of 9 preset characters and start your adventure right away\. Then return to character creation when you are ready\.                   Play one of four modes:     CLASSIC  — Like other traditional roguelikes, this mode has permadeath, meaning you lose your character when you die\. Extremely challenging even for experts\.     ROLEPLAY  — Play it like an RPG\. Save your progress at checkpoints located in settlements\.     WANDER  — Focus on exploration\. Most creatures will not attack you, you don’t gain experience by killing, but you DO gain experience by discovering new locations and treating with legendary creatures\.     DAILY  — One chance with a fixed character and world seed\. How long will you survive?         After 9 years of continuous  development and frequent updates, Caves of Qud has finally reached its 1\.0 release\! Here are some highlights of what's been added for 1\.0:       The last leg of the main quest    The new, fully graphical UI    Hundreds of visual & sound effects    Lots of polish & stability                   Caves of Qud is a project of epic proportions that's been in development for over fifteen years, since 2007\. It began as the science fantasy roguelike dream of co\-creators Jason Grinblat and Brian Bucklew, who released the first beta in 2010\. Since then, it's accrued a few more contributors who have enriched the project by helping to add visual effects, sound effects, an original soundtrack, a new UI, new game systems, new lore, and half a world of content\. Caves of Qud has grown into a wild garden of emergent narrative, where a handwritten story weaves a path through rich physical, social, and historical simulations\. The result is a hybrid handcrafted and procedurally\-generated world that's alive in a way few games are\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Freehold Games

- Publisher: Kitfox Games

- Release date: Dec 5, 2024

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Workshop, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

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- Price: 2999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 367

- Steam review count: 12669

- Steam positive reviews: 12042

- Steam negative reviews: 627

- Steam positive percentage: 95.05091167416529%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T02:02:34\.33609\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T02:02:35\.57929\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T02:02:35\.31261\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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