This game is a work of art/engineering. Important even. Deep, experimental, and beautiful. I play this game the way I read Borges or look at a Bosch painting. I recommend this game to anyone who vaguely likes gaming (without being annoying... ). It takes 17 years to have an idea this well thought out. This game is built the way semiotics are constructed to communicate with the future. And what do these symbols say?: Build to last. Build with purpose. Make art with beauty and enjoyment in mind. This isn't a cash grab. Who would make something like this just to get rich? It's made for you to enjoy, to enrich your life: with purple prose, with sapient plants, with 10,000 years of procedurally generated history. Thank you so much guys. Thank you for making my favorite game.
I like to solo journal pen and paper rpg games and ive been obsessed with it. Caves of qud was my big catalyst for starting this since my pc died during my early runs of Qud. Its design and world building definitely shaped my game world and this vid has helped immensely for my own personal projects of mapping out my brain for constructive play
Teenage me transcribed my entire Morrowind journal across several notebooks. I found them again a few years ago and it truly felt like reliving adventures from a life I had almost forgotten... It was a beautiful experience ^°^
@maykstuff oh man that is such a dope idea, the journal entries in Morrowind were so fleshed out too they're perfect to make a full on scrapbook of entries. When I play my journals feel like I'm looking at the journal entries of different character files. One day I'll follow the adventures of a mycelial fungus manservant guiding a sentient capybara scientist named manzikert, the next day I'll be following the trouble caused by a delusional archeobarbarian looking for a good story to tell from exploring abandoned ruins.
As a Gen X gamer (52 years old) I grew up with arcade machines and my beloved C64. There was a game called Questron...and RPG that was one of the first I ever beat. The graphics in Qud lovingly remind me of that game so much but of course with much, much deeper gameplay. Thanks to all those involved for this gem of a game!
Audio design and music blend so darn well together in this game. But I miss the old level-up sound. It had more oomph, blewing me from my chair from time to time. :D
here's the review i left on steam: easily one of the best games of all time. i have never seen a game elevated more by the writing and music, it's incredibly atmospheric and dense in the best ways a game can be. difficult yet flexible and getting better every week. don't sleep on it. then i dumped 200 more hours into it. welcome everyone, live and drink!
I became a chrome pyramid once. It was annoying because they see the world monochromatically. Green I think it was. It made things much harder to look at.
Haven't even entered Golgotha yet, and my char is so stronk it's kinda scary. I just love cutting things to tiny pieces, then using them for cooking things. Fun fact, a certain part enhances your Ego stat, but really angers the original owner's faction.
Thanks for the analysis! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
My character is a powerful chimera/esper lvl 43, super green humanoid because my skin is photosynthetic, fast like a bullet and can dilatate time, boost stength and adrenaline control, the real problem for me are the esper hunters, 156 of psychic glimmer and growing for all the ego absortion. I love this game.
I spent 200 hours on this game, and can't wait to put more into it now that it's 1.0
Almost twenty years in development and I still can't milk Dromads. Ridiculous!
Likely a mod out there to fix that 😂
Almost 20 years in development ABC I just now realized “Dromad” Is a pun. (Dromedary, which is a type of camel + Nomad)
This game is a work of art/engineering. Important even.
Deep, experimental, and beautiful.
I play this game the way I read Borges or look at a Bosch painting. I recommend this game to anyone who vaguely likes gaming (without being annoying... ).
It takes 17 years to have an idea this well thought out.
This game is built the way semiotics are constructed to communicate with the future. And what do these symbols say?:
Build to last. Build with purpose. Make art with beauty and enjoyment in mind.
This isn't a cash grab. Who would make something like this just to get rich? It's made for you to enjoy, to enrich your life: with purple prose, with sapient plants, with 10,000 years of procedurally generated history.
Thank you so much guys. Thank you for making my favorite game.
I like to solo journal pen and paper rpg games and ive been obsessed with it. Caves of qud was my big catalyst for starting this since my pc died during my early runs of Qud. Its design and world building definitely shaped my game world and this vid has helped immensely for my own personal projects of mapping out my brain for constructive play
Teenage me transcribed my entire Morrowind journal across several notebooks. I found them again a few years ago and it truly felt like reliving adventures from a life I had almost forgotten... It was a beautiful experience ^°^
@maykstuff oh man that is such a dope idea, the journal entries in Morrowind were so fleshed out too they're perfect to make a full on scrapbook of entries. When I play my journals feel like I'm looking at the journal entries of different character files. One day I'll follow the adventures of a mycelial fungus manservant guiding a sentient capybara scientist named manzikert, the next day I'll be following the trouble caused by a delusional archeobarbarian looking for a good story to tell from exploring abandoned ruins.
As a Gen X gamer (52 years old) I grew up with arcade machines and my beloved C64. There was a game called Questron...and RPG that was one of the first I ever beat. The graphics in Qud lovingly remind me of that game so much but of course with much, much deeper gameplay. Thanks to all those involved for this gem of a game!
One of the best designs/styles/lores
The creation of those who made it is beautiful
Caves of Qud is a work of beautiful art, which is also a game.
Honestly, the game has so much too it and is so neat that I forgot it wasn't fully released.
Thank you so much for this work of art
"Lovingly baroque and bespoke" 🥰🤗
a beautiful aspiration, realized
When you start as a nearly naked hobo fighting hyena people over scraps and begin your journey to master of time and space
The sound and music is fantastic. Would love a video about that too
6:00 I still remember how I jumped out of my seat when I first heard the “explosion“ plus glissandi.
Timothy Leary Dwarf Fortress. Such an engaging game.
Audio design and music blend so darn well together in this game.
But I miss the old level-up sound. It had more oomph, blewing me from my chair from time to time. :D
here's the review i left on steam: easily one of the best games of all time. i have never seen a game elevated more by the writing and music, it's incredibly atmospheric and dense in the best ways a game can be. difficult yet flexible and getting better every week. don't sleep on it.
then i dumped 200 more hours into it. welcome everyone, live and drink!
The music is amazing
Caves of Qud is a masterpiece in every sense, thank you to everyone who made it!
That said... these two devs do not make for great narrators 😅
Gonna psychically project my brain into a Chrome Pyramid and open a kitchen.
I became a chrome pyramid once. It was annoying because they see the world monochromatically. Green I think it was. It made things much harder to look at.
@@dougdupont6134 So Chrome Kitchen should stick to salads for food safety...
@@dougdupont6134night vision. 😅
This game deserves a spot in the MoMA as much as Dwarf Fortress.
AHH its book of the new sun! It's book of the new Sun!
Awesome video, would love more of these and to hear more from Jason and Brian
Haven't even entered Golgotha yet, and my char is so stronk it's kinda scary. I just love cutting things to tiny pieces, then using them for cooking things.
Fun fact, a certain part enhances your Ego stat, but really angers the original owner's faction.
amputate and use your own part
regenerate the old part
(you had regeneration, right?)
I've enjoyed this ever since Seth recommended it in a vid.
Best true roguelike of the last decade. 👍
Best fucking game ever. Im 800hrs in
are there NPCs who can do the things players can do? e.g. if the player, via some sequence of actions, can become a door, can NPCs do that as well?
The remake when?
It bothers me that the person(s) playing in this video isn't doing diagonal movement lol
So... you're going to start working on Qud 2, then?
Thanks for the analysis! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
When is the ttrpg system dropping? jk.... unless...?
Lmao check out vaults of vaarn
It came out in 1978, its called Gamma World. I recommend the 4th edition (1992)
@@TheJman423this or GURPS
Can you please fix input lag when moving on the steam deck 🙏 I love this game but it makes it absolutely unplayable on the deck
its a masterpiece
My character is a powerful chimera/esper lvl 43, super green humanoid because my skin is photosynthetic, fast like a bullet and can dilatate time, boost stength and adrenaline control, the real problem for me are the esper hunters, 156 of psychic glimmer and growing for all the ego absortion. I love this game.
based
I love Qud, but the editing in this video is a bloody mess
Yeah I'm liking it. Not enough biblical references imho.