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Caves of Qud
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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 🍄
🍄 happy new year ✨
may the ritual nourish you
January 1, 2026 at 12:19 AM
🎄 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
December 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🍄 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
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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
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November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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
The award-winning Caves of Qud is coming to Nintendo Switch in Q4 2025!
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
20% off for today's Daily Deal + performance improvements on Beta

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November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
PC Gamer just put out the 2025 edition of their Top 100 Games

#7 is... Caves of Qud!

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October 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Just putting out into the aether that despite coming out in December 2024, Caves of Qud is eligible for a number of this year's awards that have November cutoffs, like the Game Awards
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Feature Friday!

The Barathrumites are now called [redacted] if you get [redacted] in [redacted].

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August 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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The award-winning Caves of Qud is coming to Nintendo Switch in Q4 2025!
August 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🍄 Come on by! Caves of Qud AMA at r/fantasy happening now 🍄

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July 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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

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July 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We made an announcement about the shape of Qud to come — in short, expansion packs!

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Caves of Qud - The Future of Caves of Qud - Steam News
Read about our plan for expansion packs + come to our AMA on r/fantasy this Saturday, July 19th
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July 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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🍄🍄 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...
June 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🍄🍄 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...
June 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Yesterday we dropped patch 1.04, which merges a few months' worth of beta changes into the main branch!

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May 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Beta Update - April 25, 2025

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April 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Beta Update

The 210 sequence will be leaving 'beta' soon, kick it around and see if anything breaks!

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April 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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!

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Caves of Qud - Maintenence Update 1.0.3 and Beta Update 210.3 - Steam News
1.0.3 (build 209.45) The build library is now synced to Steam Cloud. Auto light/douse torches is now toggled on again by default. Horns now benefit from the Jab skill when used for secondary attacks. ...
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April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
March 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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: https://buff.ly/3QcUTw6

#HugoAwards
March 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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game website — cavesofqud.com
eurogamer review — www.eurogamer.net/caves-of-qud...
91 metacritic — www.metacritic.com/game/caves-o...
Nominated for IGF Excellence in Design, Excellence in Narrative, & Seumas McNally Grand Prize + D.I.C.E. Simulation/Strategy Game of the Year

I'm here for questions!
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March 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
New beta branch update; new Unity version, 64-bit Windows client and a big update for multi-version mod support

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March 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Here's a case I made for Caves of Qud during Nebula nomination season. Relevant now as well

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The 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing: a Case for Caves of Qud
By Jason Grinblat
kitfoxgames.medium.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM