effika<p>I found a village made up of sentient anarchist plants whose signature dish is Shredded Salt <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a> </p><p>(I tried it. The special status it gives is simply "Hmm.")</p>
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StreamRadar<p>🎮 Join <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Samsai" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Samsai</span></a></span>'s stream! live on Owncast: <a href="https://cast.samsai.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cast.samsai.eu/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> 🎮</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DungeonCrawlAdventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DungeonCrawlAdventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SavageCreatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SavageCreatures</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGamingLive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGamingLive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/owncast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>owncast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livestream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>livestream</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stream</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a></p>
BeefGriller<p>OK, has anyone else played today's daily <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a> game? Why are the villagers of Urqanna killing each other?!? It's freaking me out!</p>
jmac<p>The second-least-visible reason to be into Caves of Qud is the Steam profile background that it unlocks. Nothing says "I'm here for the inscrutable roguelikes about procedurally generated fungal infections" like this background. <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/id/halstrick" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">steamcommunity.com/id/halstric</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p><p>The least-visible reason is game's Steam-chat emojis, of course. Yes, I collected them all anyway. <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steam</span></a></p>
Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟♂️<p>Small surprises are very nice. My leisure time sink <a href="https://vis.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a> now supports cloud syncing of saved games.</p><p>Live and drink, my friend.</p>
jmac<p>There we are. Klanq the horny mushroom wizard has colonized my <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> with his pixelated clone-spores. Everyone wins. <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p>
Kat Marchán 🐈<p>I have finally finished <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p><p>What a game, y’all. That story went places, and the writing/prose was absolutely incredible. Multiple endings and I’m happy with the one I chose, and how they did the epilogue!</p>
Len<p>Right, so I was wrong. There isn't actually a space chicken involved in any of the endings, they're already in the area before I did the <spoilers> thing.</p><p>I think my version of events is much cooler, though! </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p>
Len<p>Honestly I think some of the appeal is simply a character reacting to something you've done. I was a little let down by Dardi mentioning he'd like the recipe for Bone Babka and not having any new dialogue options when I spoke to him while knowing the recipe. That, and the locals near <final battle area> not acknowleding the conflict, nor its end </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p>
Len<p>Went and read the hidden achievements on the wiki. It turns out you can actually talk to Resheph! I completely missed that, and I'm not sure I know how to do it, though I can guess.</p><p>I'm also gratified to see there's an achievement for telling Resheph his plan failed, if you've killed all of the Girsh Nephilim. I considered doing that before I ascended the Spindle for the second time, but gave up on the idea when I learned that some of their cradles are simply randomly located, and it's just chance whether you'll find or discover them. </p><p>Annoyingly, in that playthrough I did discover the lair of Girsh Rermadon, but that's one of the ones with a fixed location.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p>
Len<p>So it seems to me that Barathrum didn't actually have any plan beyond "flee". Flying off into space to leave Qud at Resheph's mercy. Kinda sucks.</p><p>I'd savescummed before the final battle at the base of the Spindle, so I did that whole fight again, and went to confront Resheph.</p><p>The cherubim weren't too hard to kill.</p><p>My read on the other ending is that, well, Resheph was a computer in the spindle's space station, that was ineffable and unfathomable, because it relied on the thoughts of a space chicken for its random number generator. So when I opened the RNG and released the space chicken, that broke Resheph, and I could return to the surface.</p><p>I liked how this time the "1,000 years later" was a figure in the entryway of the Spindle's station, rather than a blob in a mud hut village. I think the implication is that I did succeed in helping Qud recover from the Gyre, and restore some of the technology of the Eaters.</p><p>A much better ending than fleeing into space like a coward.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p>
Len<p>Huh. That was certainly an ending.</p><p>I found the first one unsatisfying, and went back and did the second one just now.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p>
jmac<p>I maintain that permadeath “classic" mode in <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a> should be considered a variant, and not the default setting. This could be accomplished as easily as making “role-playing” mode the first option in the New Game screen, and not the second one.</p><p>The writing is so good, and I want to experience the whole story, which I *never* would were the game permadeath-only. I'm not alone: fewer than 30% of players have the achievement for finishing the introductory quest, and that's a shame.</p>
jmac<p>I am up to Bethesda Susa again in <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a>. Jotun killed me four or five more times before I started figuring him out. Carved through the rest of the trolls easily, and have now died in the subsequent “abandoned ward" floor repeatedly, drowning in the ankle-deep slime of ickslugs and snailmothers.</p><p>For the first time since starting this playthrough, I was starting to feel frustrated, so I backed off to mop up some easier quests for a while. Found some nice boots in a deeply chthonic pig farm.</p>
Kat Marchán 🐈<p>It’s funny how long it took me to realize that <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a> just… doesn’t gender the main character. You can’t pick your gender because it literally just never comes into play in any way shape or form, so you’re free to just project whatever you want.</p><p>And I think it’s also fun how, in years of playing this game, I don’t think I gendered my character even once?</p>
ozoned<p><strong>Caves Of Qud - SciFi Classic Roguelike 1.0 Release - Livestream 2024-12-05</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/videos/watch/d5269f7f-75de-426a-b465-ce895dd8925a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">video.thepolarbear.co.uk/video</span><span class="invisible">s/watch/d5269f7f-75de-426a-b465-ce895dd8925a</span></a></p>
Brian Swetland<p>Much enthusiasm for Caves of Qud in this PC Gamer review (94/100):<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/caves-of-qud-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/ca</span><span class="invisible">ves-of-qud-review/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p>
Brian Swetland<p>Happy Caves of Qud 1.0 Launch Day:<br><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Caves_of_Qud/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">store.steampowered.com/app/333</span><span class="invisible">640/Caves_of_Qud/</span></a></p><p>Enjoy a modern roguelike in the style of the classic tiled, turn based games, with nicer UI/UX, in a far-future science-fantasy setting more in the spirit of Dune or Book of the New Sun than the typical D&D fare.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a></p>
Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟♂️<p>Tomorrow, the 1.0 version of <a href="https://vis.social/tags/CavesOfQud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CavesOfQud</span></a> will be out. It will likely be the end of my character called "Kievarin Erehdys", as the save games have not been compatible across major versions.</p><p>It's the character with which I've managed to get closest to the end game. My character has become friends with unshelled reptiles and sentient oozes, hated by centaurs, and helped high-tech humanoid bears fight off an attack on their secret base. The character's name means "The Brewer's Mistake".</p>
Grogpod Roguelike Podcast<p>Excited to share a tutorial run through of Caves of Qud for the upcoming 1.0 release with one of the best streamers of the game <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.social/@BigSimple" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BigSimple</span></a></span> </p><p>For the series, we are running through the tutorial and the first few quests, unpacking the wild uniqueness of an enormously influential traditional roguelike (morrowind-like?). </p><p>Excited to finally learn the game properly!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOEBoRN1S8&list=PLXr3aFsuMON_9BNjVKplmLvwC51J6yCwG&index=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=1sOEBoRN1S</span><span class="invisible">8&list=PLXr3aFsuMON_9BNjVKplmLvwC51J6yCwG&index=1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roguelike</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/cavesofqud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cavesofqud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/steamdeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steamdeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/rpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rpg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/morrowind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morrowind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiegame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p>
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