Setting a date for the launch of a video game can be tremendously complicated, since it can only be done once the game is ready for the public. This has been the goal of Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat since 16 years ago when they began developing their successful roguelike.
And it is that a 95% positive reviews on Steamamong 5,613 shared by the community, endorse the good work of Freehold Games with Caves of Qud. We are talking about a science fiction roguelike, retrofuturism and full of a peculiar context. Now, after its arrival in Early Access format in 2015, the title has achieved the great step of programming its version 1.0.
Thanks to the collaboration with the publisher Kitfox Games, the work will land in full sometime in 2024, although the exact day remains to be known. The adventure that it proposes to us is to control a character belonging to any of the varied settings, be it the toxic forests of Ekuemekiyye, the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon or the dunes and jungles dotted with salt of Qud.
The simulation it offers Caves of Qud It is very deep, focusing on an immense biological diversity and a cultural richness like few games. We can arm our character with rifles, vibroblades, frayed parchment or poisonous stingers while we feed on more than 70 mutations. That is, we can end up having wings, two heads, feathers, several arms, or the ability to clone ourselves.
The map is procedurally generated, its size being almost overwhelming, and there are more than 60 factions to join; some are made up of apes, crabs, robots and various other beings. You can also draw on the immense lore through historians, books and other sources of knowledge. Caves of Qud boasts of being extremely difficult and being a roguelike, death is permanent, and the games are never the same.
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