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Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. By @freeholdgames & @kitfoxgames

Joined November 2017
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Caves of Qud
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We molted.
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hi, videogame 'Caves of Qud' here something important to tell you ✨Dwarf Fortress is having its Steam release today ✨ Dwarf Fortress is the most intricate simulation game ever made and one of the biggest influences on me, videogame Caves of Qud
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THE MOON STAIR IS HERE
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Caves of Qud
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The Palladium Reef feature arc is complete. Game modes, new character creation, and a new late game — all out now
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@cavesofqud
Caves of Qud
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who's ready to [redact] the [redacted]
@KitfoxGames
Kitfox Games 🦊
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The Caves of Qud team are making their final preparations for 1.0 launch later this year! ✏ Tutorial beta early next month 🔥 Feature Fridays pausing after this week (to focus fully on dev) ⏰Price is going up Oct 29th
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Caves of Qud
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Live and drink, friends. Caves of Qud is going up to $19.99 in January. Now's the time if you wanna get in at the current price!
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Caves of Qud
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The Palladium Reef + New Character Creation are now available in beta.
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Caves of Qud
2 years
The Moon Stair comes out this Friday, December 16th
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Caves of Qud
3 years
The Palladium Reef comes out Monday, October 25th. One week from today.
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Caves of Qud
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Our next feature arc — Creatures of the 7th Plague — is out now
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Caves of Qud
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The Moon Stair beta is here.
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Caves of Qud
4 years
After so many months, the Tomb of the Eaters is finally here.
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Caves of Qud
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Creatures of the 7th Plague — our new feature arc — is now in beta
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The Spring Molting beta is out now
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The commissioner is doing a great job
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Caves of Qud
5 years
🎉🎲FOLKS!🎲🎉 Caves of Qud price is going up to $14.99 in 10 DAYS (April 18th)! On all platforms. This is your LAST CHANCE to get it for $9.99! Come chisel through a layer cake of thousand-year-old civilizations. 🍰
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Live and drink, folks. We're putting Feature Fridays on hold as we ramp up to the Moon Stair beta. :crystaleyes:
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Caves of Qud
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The indie game we're making and three of the inspirations behind it
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Caves of Qud
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please support the game and its creators, who have spent a literal ⌛20 years⌛ immersed in a one-of-a-kind visionary project that's pushed the videogame medium forward like few others it is really hard to overstate how special Dwarf Fortress is
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Caves of Qud
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As our #blaseball sponsorship of Season 1 wraps up, we'd like to note it's fitting that the Internet Series Champions are the Moist Talkers — the Water Ritual is an important ceremony of cultural exchange in Caves of Qud
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Caves of Qud
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It's #GoingRogue week on Steam and Caves of Qud is on sale. Come meet all our normals
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if you enjoy the game 'caves of qud', kindly leave a positive review on your platform(s) of choice! they matter a lot thank you, the review moth
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Caves of Qud
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The Deep Jungle comes out this Thursday, Feb 17th
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losing is fun strike the earth live and drink
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4 years
The Mutation Overhaul—our biggest mutation rebalance ever—is now live!
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Caves of Qud
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🎉🎉🎉GET READY🌱🌱🌱 🎉🎉🎉SEPTEMBER 28TH🌱🌱🌱
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Caves of Qud
3 months
Want a sightly beak? it's the Steam Summer Sale and Caves of Qud is in it
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Caves of Qud
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🌙🌙🌙 GET READY ☀️☀️☀️ 🌙🌙🌙 SEPTEMBER 28TH ☀️☀️☀️
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Caves of Qud
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💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
@pcgamer
PC Gamer
4 years
You can have like 12 arms in Caves of Qud's new update
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Caves of Qud
1 year
Live and drink, friends. The new Abilities screen is now live on beta.
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Caves of Qud
3 years
The Deep Jungle feature arc is here. New late game areas, new Red Rock, new historic sites — and much more
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Caves of Qud
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You don't have to stop playing Dwarf Fortress to enjoy the Moon Stair. Do a run while your world is generating. The thing about computers is, they can run two applications at once 🖥️2✨
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Caves of Qud
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🌌🌌🌌 GET READY ⌛⌛⌛ 🌌🌌🌌 SEPTEMBER 28TH ⌛⌛⌛
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Caves of Qud
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CAVES OF QUD is live on ! CAVES OF QUD is live on ! The Generated Villages & Alternate Starts patch is live everywhere!
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Caves of Qud
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The Deep Jungle feature arc is now live in beta.
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Caves of Qud
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If you have the Socially Repugnant defect, you are less graceful with your phrasing
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🗣️🗣️🗣️ NEW CONVERSATION UI 🗣️🗣️🗣️ ➡️➡️➡️ SEPTEMBER 28th ⬅️⬅️⬅️
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Caves of Qud
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4 days until the Moon Stair drops 4 dreams of crystal & static
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Caves of Qud
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The Moon Stair comes out this Friday, December 16th
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Caves of Qud
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Today is the last day to get Caves of Qud at its winter sale price — $13.49 AND one of the last few days before the regular price goes up to $19.99 itch: gog: steam:
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🔥🔥🔥 GET READY 🦜🦜🦜 🔥🔥🔥 SEPTEMBER 28TH 🦜🦜🦜
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Caves of Qud
3 years
Feature Friday! Small boulders now weigh less than medium boulders.
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simulation depth, design tone, visual style. All extremely foundational for the genre. All imprinted on me and hundreds of other games
@ptychomancer
Jason Grinblat
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Next: the continents of Dwarf Fortress ( @Bay12Games ) were the first generated maps that truly blew me away. They're the most artful use of ASCII I've seen and the biggest influence on the visual style of Caves of Qud.
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Caves of Qud
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@blaseball it's not our fault there are no regulations on bat size, or stipulations against pitchers blasting one at the batter with their own gigantic bat
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Caves of Qud
3 years
Feature Friday! You can no longer attempt to sit on yourself, if you are a chair, or sleep on yourself, if you are a bed.
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Caves of Qud
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Warm static in the air tonight. But is that... a signal? We put together a signup page for a Caves of Qud newsletter, and more live and drink, folks
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SPECIAL GUEST???
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Kitfox Games sale on Steam
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Caves of Qud
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Feature Friday!
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Feature Friday! Waterbeds now break if someone with Quills sleeps in them.
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Caves of Qud
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Having *nothing at all* to do with @blaseball 's implication yesterday that WE were incinerated, we thought we'd quote from this article on our community wiki that enumerates all the ways your character can instantly die in Caves of Qud
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Caves of Qud
1 year
Dwarves are the snapjaws of the fantasy underearth. People are always saying this
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PC Gamer
1 year
It's time for another PC Gamer roundtable! The brains behind Dwarf Fortress ( @Bay12Games ) and Caves of Qud ( @cavesofqud ) get together to talk about making the kinds of deeply simulated games they love to play.
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Caves of Qud
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The Steam release makes the game 100x more accessible with a beautiful and clean and streamlined UI, that learned snapjaw vtuber Gra is demo'ing on her stream right now!
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Caves of Qud
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🥂🥂🥂 DRINK CHARGE ⚡⚡⚡ 🥂🥂🥂 SEPTEMBER 28TH ⚡⚡⚡
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Caves of Qud
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do crossover fanfic write a song about dwarves drinking warm static what happens when a chrome pyramid digs into an aquifer things of that nature
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Caves of Qud
3 years
Feature Friday! Redrock and Ruins Remastered.
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Caves of Qud
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Caves of Qud is on sale till November 1st!
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Caves of Qud
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Feature Friday! You can no longer use Menacing Stare on yourself unless you have two or more heads.
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Caves of Qud
3 years
Feature Friday! Roleplay and Wander modes are now available on the beta branch.
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Feature Friday!
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Feature Friday!
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The Caves of Qud Soundtrack is now available on steam and itch! It's a gorgeous hour long album by @Craigoryham . It will be updated as we release new music alongside the early access game.
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final offer
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Feature Friday!
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Feature Friday! Vomiting now has an action cost.
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Caves of Qud
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Feature Friday! Fixed a bug that prevented entering clams.
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Caves of Qud
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Feature Friday! Beta branch includes the first big batch of updates for the upcoming mutation balance pass. We've updated and refreshed 23 mutations in this patch.
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Come grab Caves of Qud on sale this weekend!
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Feature Friday!
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Caves of Qud
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Live and drink, friends. We're skipping Feature Friday this week and instead posting an early beta of our new feature arc early next week.
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Caves of Qud
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GET READY! Tomb of the Eaters is launching NEXT FRIDAY! Until then, enjoy the last beta patch. Live and drink.
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Caves of Qud
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"For ages they dreamed, 'the hands must grow'. In the soft luster of a laboratory, the dream was realized." Get Caves of Qud and fellow body provocateurs in this new Steam bundle, available now
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Xalavier Nelson Jr.
3 years
THE ECONOMIC BODY HORROR BUNDLE IS LIVE! Pick up Cruelty Squad, Caves of Qud, Wrought Flesh, and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator--now in a single, convenient bundle of existentially terrifying fun!! Remember: flesh is the ultimate gift
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Caves of Qud
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Feature Friday! Non-player creatures now occasionally pet nearby pettable creatures.
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Caves of Qud
2 years
do you like a capital r 'Reference'?? heheh
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AHHHHH
@KitfoxGames
Kitfox Games 🦊
1 year
Kitfox is publishing Caves of Qud, the legendary sci-fi roguelike by @freeholdgames ... and it's coming to 1.0 in 2024!!! LIVE AND DRINK, FRIENDS! Let's all be mutants together, it's in Early Access! Steam: :
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"Joppa? Never heard of it." -Mehmet The Generated Villages & Alternate Starts patch is now available.
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Caves of Qud
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#3 is the late game. Two new regions, a new village, a new side quest, and many, many new creatures, items, cybernetic implants, pieces of furniture, etc
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Feature Friday!
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Live and drink 🗣️💦
@blaseball
BLASEBALL COMMISSIONER ALTERNATE
3 years
Talk Spit! The Canada Moist Talkers are Internet Series Champions! Thank you for watching Internet League #Blaseball Season 1, presented by @cavesofqud ! See you at the Election Sunday! Don’t forget to #Vote !🩸⚾️
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Feature Friday!
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Feature Friday!
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#2 is Roleplay mode, Wander mode, and preset builds (6 mutants, 3 truekin, all with unique tiles)
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Feature Friday! Creatures who feel victimized by inanimate objects no longer become retributively angry, usually.
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Feature Friday! Creatures can now only vomit once every three turns.
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a tangent about this little guy — this often gets reported as a bug, but it's just the robot's name
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Caves of Qud
2 years
Younès points out it also released on itch! A fact that I did not know, as a simple videogame
@pyrofoux
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2 years
@cavesofqud It also got released on itch!! Live and build, little friends.
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Caves of Qud
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⬆⬆⬆ GET READY ⏱️⏱️⏱️ ⬆⬆⬆ SEPTEMBER 28TH ⏱️⏱️⏱️
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Caves of Qud
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Feature Friday! Walls with pipes installed in them now get their ignition temperature raised to 1200 degrees if it was below 1200 degrees, preventing random villages with lava-based hydraulics in their wooden walls from instantly bursting into flame.
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Caves of Qud
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"Water" means different things to different creatures
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Feature Friday!
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