Caves of Qud, a roguelike game 17 years in the making, is now “complete” [Video]

Play, Die, Mutate: A two-man team worked for an ungodly amount of time on a “simple” roguelike game, but now they are nearly done and celebrating their first major release. Caves of Qud is one of those punishingly hard games in which you can fully immerse yourself, with permadeath looming as a constant threat to spoil the fun.

Caves of Qud takes inspiration from Dwarf Fortress and other lore-rich worlds, blending core quest-based gameplay mechanics with procedurally generated content. Freehold Games, which includes Brian Bucklew, Jason Grinblat, and other contributors, worked on the game for 17 years. Now, they have announced that release 1.0 is ready to launch on new and old PCs – stretching all the way back to the Windows 7 era.

Caves of Qud(CoQ) is a science fantasy roguelike epic experience dealing with retrofuturism, deep simulation, …