Caves of Qud
Caves of Qud is a science fantasy RPG & roguelike epic, built on deep simulation, set in an intricately etched, far-future world.
🚀 2025 Hugo Award for Best Game
🖥️ PC Gamer Top 100 games of 2019, 2020, and 2024.
🍄 by Freehold Games & Kitfox Games 🍄
- Friends! Update on our Switch launch. The port is out of our hands & we’re waiting for final approval. This can take a little bit & so we can't give you a release date just yet, but it's looking likely it'll slip just past the end of Jan. We’ll let you know as soon as we can, should be quite soon!
- 🍄 happy new year ✨ may the ritual nourish you
- 🎄 moon and sun; wisdom and will. holiday cheer on your Ut yara Ux 🍄 if you want to give your favorite game a gift this season, think about leaving us a Steam review! We're 23 away from 10,000 LIVE AND DRINK
- 🍄 LIVE AND DRINK 💧 Just about 12 hours left to nominate us for some Steam Awards, all of which we're eligible for due to releasing less than a year ago
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View full threadThird, Outstanding Story-Rich Game. Story-rich, story-drenched even. The whole game is leaking story. Traditional, emergent, etc
- And... all the rest that I do not have graphics for — Game of the Year, Outstanding Visual Style, Most Innovative Gameplay, Best Game You Suck At (!!), Sit Back and Relax (sicko) ALSO, if you haven't already, please leave us a review! store.steampowered.com/app/333640/C...
- The link: store.steampowered.com/steamawards/... And some categories to consider. First, Best Soundtrack. What other game has a track composed and played on an Otamatone??
- Second, Best Game on Steam Deck. Many people tell us "I cannot believe this game plays so well on Steam Deck." Are you one of those people?? Go vote !
- I am ELIGIBLE 😏
- Reasons to nom Caves of Qud for the Steam Awards: ▶ Loved by science fiction writers, sickos and critics alike ▶ Flexible pick, can nominate for almost every category ▶ The one the cool kids are picking ▶ This is the ONLY year you can do this store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...
- Hey friends! Unfortunately we are delaying our Switch release til January. Port isn't perfect yet, & given Qud's long dev timeline, what matters most to us is releasing the best possible ver of the game, even if it means a delay We're confident on the Jan timeline, so we'll see you on Switch soon
- Here's some more news about Steam award nominations and the results of our Monster Mash mod jam store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- Soon, waterfreaks, soon... live and drink
- 20% off for today's Daily Deal + performance improvements on Beta store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- PC Gamer just put out the 2025 edition of their Top 100 Games #7 is... Caves of Qud! www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...
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- Feature Friday! The Barathrumites are now called [redacted] if you get [redacted] in [redacted]. store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- 🍄 Come on by! Caves of Qud AMA at r/fantasy happening now 🍄 www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
- live and drink! We're doing an AMA over at r/Fantasy tomorrow at 10AM PST. Co-creators Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat + writer Caelyn Sandel will be around to answer questions! come by www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/
- live and drink! We're doing an AMA over at r/Fantasy tomorrow at 10AM PST. Co-creators Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat + writer Caelyn Sandel will be around to answer questions! come by www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/
- Reminder! We're a Hugo Award finalist this year for Best Game or Interactive Work! If you're a Seattle Worldcon member or attendee & eligible to vote, reach out per the instructions in the voting packet & we'll get you a key! Voting ends this Wednesday, July 23rd at 11:59PM PDT seattlein2025.org
- We made an announcement about the shape of Qud to come — in short, expansion packs! store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- 🍄🍄 Our biggest sale yet — 20% off 🍄🍄
- The Steam Summer Sale is here and all our published games are 20% off! ✔️ Check out the entire sale: store.steampowered.com/publisher/ki...
- Yesterday we dropped patch 1.04, which merges a few months' worth of beta changes into the main branch! store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- Beta Update - April 25, 2025 store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- Beta Update The 210 sequence will be leaving 'beta' soon, kick it around and see if anything breaks! steamcommunity.com/app/333640
- Update 1.0.3 and Beta Update 210.3 The build library is now synced to Steam Cloud. Auto light/douse torches is now toggled on again by default. Fixed a bug that caused quest objectives to pick up items to complete when just looking at them. and moe! store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- Caves of Qud?? Vote for Best Game????? thank you, live and drink
- 🚀 Nominations for the 2025 Hugo Awards are now open! 🚀 Members of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon & the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon can nominate for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award & the Astounding Awards Deadline: March 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PDT Learn more: buff.ly/3QcUTw6 #HugoAwards
- New beta branch update; new Unity version, 64-bit Windows client and a big update for multi-version mod support store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- Maintenance Update 1.0.2 store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- 🍄🍄 Last chance for this! 🍄🍄 Nebula nominations close TOMORROW! If you're an SFWA member & Caves of Qud enjoyer, please consider nominating us for Best Game Writing live and drink
- live and drink, CAVES OF QUD is eligible to be nominated for Best Game Writing at the 2025 Nebula Awards! If you're a Nebula voter, check out this post on the #SFWA forums for more info & game codes
- as a snapjaw I do not like to brag (ahem), but we believe Caves of Qud is a novel work of language-driven science fiction, and that it should be considered for the 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing!!
- Nebula nominations close in ONE week. I'm here to reminder you that Caves of Qud is eligible for Best Game Writing. If you're an SFWA member, get a game code + more info here www.sfwa.org/forum/forum/... Message me with any questions!
- live and drink, CAVES OF QUD is eligible to be nominated for Best Game Writing at the 2025 Nebula Awards! If you're a Nebula voter, check out this post on the #SFWA forums for more info & game codes
- also! co-creator and writer @jfg.land wrote a case for Caves of Qud's nebula nomination over on Medium kitfoxgames.medium.com/the-2025-neb...
- and finally! @jfg.land is going to stream Caves of Qud on Monday, Feb 3rd (3-5pm PDT) at twitch.tv/ptychomancer he'll talk about the dev process and show off some of the game's writing!
- geh heh heh heh heh. while we've been hibernating, it appears we were nominated for some awards! 🎲 D.I.C.E. Award for Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year ✍️ IGF Award for Excellence in Narrative 🧮 IGF Award for Excellence in Design 🍿 IGF Seumas McNally Grand Prize what an honor!
- there's also the IGF Audience Award, which you can vote on! if you'd like to vote for Qud, live and drink?? Voting closes this friday
- 1.01 patch is out! + launch thoughts and a "live and drink" sendoff before our (much-needed) break steamcommunity.com/games/333640...
- 17 years later, Caves of Qud 1.0 is here store.steampowered.com/app/333640/C...
- It's 1.0 eve! We wrote a letter to our fans www.patreon.com/posts/117308...
- a sneak peak at merch 👀
- more info store.steampowered.com/news/app/333...
- ✨✨ 2 weeks out from our 1.0 release ✨✨ Want to help support our launch? 💸 Buy Caves of Qud! If you already have, consider buying it for a friend ✍️ Leave a review on Steam/itch/gog 🐪 On launch day (Dec. 5th), buy the Dromad Deluxe bundle. Game + OST + Pets DLC + this seal stamped on your main menu!
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- yeah ports will come after 1.0, no timeline yet
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