Caves of Qud overview

Overview

Caves of Qud comes from Freehold Games and is published by Kitfox Games. It arrived on Steam on Dec 5, 2024, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Workshop, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, and DualSense Controller Support. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Caves of Qud's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 249 players at 26 September 2026 - 06:16:39 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2,853. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 95% positive across 12,260 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Caves of Qud is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Caves of Qud has sold up to 573,000 units and has 11,906 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $9,200,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Caves of Qud overview details

Caves of Qud combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Caves of Qud is a Hugo Award-winning science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit a living, breathing world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth? Do anything and everything. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world. DEEP PHYSICAL SIMULATION — Don’t like the wall blocking your way? Dig through it with a pickaxe, or eat through it with your corrosive gas mutation, or melt it to lava. Yes, every wall has a melting point. FULLY SIMULATED CREATURES — Every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player. That means they have levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. So if you have a mutation that lets you, say, psionically dominate a spider, you can traipse through the world as a spider, laying webs and eating things. DYNAMIC FACTION SYSTEM — Pursue allegiances with over 70 factions: apes, crabs, trees, robots, and highly entropic beings, just to name a few. RICHLY DETAILED SCIENCE FANTASY SETTING — Over fifteen years of worldbuilding have led to a rich, weird, labyrinthine, one-of-a-kind storyworld, layered on top of the simulation, all for you to explore. Live and drink, friend. TACTICAL GAMEPLAY — Turn-based, sandbox exploration and combat offers as many solutions as you and your mutations, implants, artifacts, and skills are creative enough to invent. RPG ELEMENTS — Quests, NPCs, villages, historic sites; some dynamic and some handwritten, inter…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Caves of Qud is listed as a game with $29.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Workshop, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, and DualSense Controller Support, and is associated with Adventure, Indie, RPG, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 249 players at 26 September 2026 - 06:16:39 UTC, a tracked peak of 2,853, and 95% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Procedural GenerationTurn-Based CombatOpen WorldTurn-BasedTranshumanismSci-fiReplay ValueTraditional RoguelikeRogue-likeStory RichRPGCharacter CustomizationSurvivalPixel GraphicsAtmospheric

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Support and legal notes

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