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Caves of Qud

Caves of Qud

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Released Dec 5, 2024 Developer Freehold Games Publisher Kitfox Games Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Procedural GenerationTurn-Based CombatOpen WorldTurn-BasedTranshumanism
View on Steam ↗ $29.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

95.2%positive10,410 reviews
Recommended · 38 found this helpful

“i'm not much for writing reviews -- i'm not very good at them. but this game is spectacular. i'm old. so i played rogue. and angband, and zangband. most importantly, i played mission: thunderbolt. which, i suspect, few people have. this is the perfect successor. it's difficult.…”

— a player, Steam review · 143 hrs played
Recommended · 15 found this helpful

“This is the game that when youre playing it, your buddies will ask "what game are you always playing". Then you show them, and they have zero idea what on earth is going on. But its the greatest game to sink infinite hours into and they have no idea. Qud is my guilty pleasure,…”

— a player, Steam review · 158 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“I wish I could give this a mixed rating. Positives: The setting- The world is very unique and creative, and it truly gives you a 'stranger in a strange land' type feeling. Exploring and finding weird creatures or environments is very satisfying because there's so much and it's…”

— a player, Steam review · 57 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:18 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

305playing at last check
44624-hour peak
2,853all-time peak
0 1k 2k 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 1.5k avg · Dec 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

150achievements
2.4%median completion
0.1%rarest: Sound Sleeper
69.2% of players 34.8% of players 24.6% of players 21.7% of players 17.0% of players 14.9% of players 13.1% of players 12.1% of players 11.5% of players 9.9% of players 9.5% of players 9.2% of players 8.7% of players 8.0% of players 7.9% of players 7.8% of players 7.4% of players 7.0% of players 6.8% of players 6.4% of players 6.2% of players 6.1% of players 5.4% of players 5.2% of players 4.6% of players 4.5% of players 4.5% of players 4.2% of players 3.9% of players 3.7% of players 3.6% of players 3.5% of players 3.5% of players 3.3% of players 3.2% of players 3.0% of players 2.7% of players 2.4% of players 2.4% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 69.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
69.2%Welcome to Qud — Hidden achievement
38.5%Jawsnapper — Kill 100 snapjaws.
34.8%What's Eating the Watervine? — Complete the quest What's Eating the Watervine?
Rarest badges of honor
0.1%Sound Sleeper — Wake peacefully from twenty dreams.
0.1%Klanq Puff at Sun — Hidden achievement
0.1%Imagine a Rubber Sheet — Dash yourself on the crags of spacetime.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$29.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$29.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US29.99 USD
EU30.49 EUR
UK26.75 GBP
Australia41.95 AUD
Canada35.99 CAD
Japan3,850 JPY
Brazil99.99 BRL
China109.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$16 Brazil Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$36

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 04, 2026
Maintenance Patch - July 4, 2026

211.50 Autoexplore will now only dig in order to reach revealed objects of interest. Autoexplore is now less prone to discard its last target if interrupted. Fixed a bug that caused saves to load with

Jun 25, 2026
Burgeoning Summer Growth

Hey folks,We have some nice updates to share. First, after several weeks on the beta branch, our performance patch is now ready for everyone. It includes lots of little fixes and some deep rewrites th

Apr 25, 2026
Beta Patch - April 24, 2026

211.38 - 'beta' branch Greatly improved performance on wet maps.

Apr 23, 2026
Beta Patch - Bethesda Susa performance improvements

211.37 - 'beta' branch Improved performance in Bethesda Susa. Fixed a bug that caused to sometimes meander off the main map or into important quest locations. Fixed a bug that caused the Modern UI opt

Mar 27, 2026
Experimental branch for testing our localization framework

Hey folks,We put up a new, experimental branch (lang-experimental) for testing a total rewrite of our text generation systems. This was done to support our efforts to localize Caves of Qud. We don't h

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAdventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Player tagsProcedural Generation · Turn-Based Combat · Open World · Turn-Based · Transhumanism · Sci-fi · Replay Value · Traditional Roguelike · Rogue-like · Story Rich · RPG · Character Customization (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Includes level editor · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
ControllerFull support
Achievements150
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttp://www.cavesofqud.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 21H1, Windows 11 21H2 Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support. Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Graphics card: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable Storage: 2 GB available space