you joke but it might actually need it if its a unity game without using unity's multithreading system for a roguelike (hazarding a guess that this is the case) dwarf fortress looks like an excel spreadsheet bbut has so much shit happening/being simulated that it eventually will inevitably tank your computer - this game can have similar issues where you do something that affects multiple levels of a dungeon and yeeeah
I played Qud on hard-core mode for several months. I specialized in phasing out, ranged combat, evasion, regeneration and carried instant heal fruits. I died with full (138 hp) in essentially one round by getting stunned from a distance. I loved it, but I have EPTSD now.
This is what made me switch to roleplay mode. I have died in one round from stuff off screen too many times. There's no way I'm going to spend the time/brainpower/etc required to be 'cautious' enough to defend against anything.
I would say that the game has evolved to the point where roleplay mode is the "main" way to play it classic mode is for weirdos like me who like slamming their dick in a car door, at times (I have 600+ hours in Qud, so the dick slamming only SOMETIMES happens)
I found a random throne full of wiring in the desert. Sat in it. It took me to level 30 of a dungeon. I tried to sit in it again and it didnt work. The wildly more powerful mobs came in and killed me
That's my only detraction against Caves of Qud: It's prone to those one-hit death situations. You could be bumping along just fine, swing at a enemy that you've beaten a hundred times, and, oh no, they crit 4x, you ded. What could you have done differently? Use precognition, I guess. But the addition of RP mode does help with that.
After some 160 hours I am 100% convinced that this is the best PC game available. So many ways you can build your character, so many places to go, things to do, enemies and friends to meet. Man can't believe how immersive it can be by just looking at those simplistic graphics. After some time you will feel that the reduced pixel count of the characters helps to ignite your imagination. I started playing 2 Splat Qud-videos before and I can assure you that "consuming my life" (or my thoughts) is not an exaggeration.
You are delusional... there are much MUCH better games than this overrated shit, are u telling me that that unplayable crap is better than metro 2033, etc...? Lmao
@@websurferwizard There are a lot of enemy types but still finite, and mostly the same are found in a region/biome. Take your time, get to know them, always have a place to back up at the early levels (1~5) and when you go into dangerous territory: measning don't use the world map for travelling so you can go back to cleared screens. Play roleplay mode so you can continue at the last visited settlement when you die.
I love this game. I have over 300 hours in it so far and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface. Sometimes I have a really interesting run and feel sad knowing I'll never be able to fully duplicate that experience, but that's part of the beauty of this game. Nobody will ever have the same experience as you; not even another version of you.
I've been playing this since it first popped on Steam. It's one of those games that just consumes my life for a few weeks, I give it a rest for a couple months, then pop back and there's a tonne of new content and it consumes my life again. The amount of content is truly wild. One of those games where you go "I wonder if I can do this" and the answer is usually yes. Probably my fav game of all time
Watching you play Caves of Qud instantly brought a smile to my face. I am really hoping I'll be able to see you play on Twitch when the 1.0 comes out. Great to hear you help me on this game too. Need all the help I can get lol
Absolutely. I've owned the game for several years, pick it up now and again and never get past the initial learning curve, but love every time splat showcases it and could watch him play it for endless hours.
@@JohnWilson-mk2jp You need to strategize even the way you build your character. If you get only two minor mutations (utility is best, like night vision and the one that give you more action speed) and dump the rest on three stacks of the perk that gives you the choice between three random mutations you can pretty much end up with all the useful mutations. Flaming ray on hands is also OP since it stacks heat on melee so you can ignite stuff pretty easily on a few hits. Also you will have better luck in combat if you treat it more like a weird version of chess instead of an RPG
Man, that music sends me back there in seconds. The written descriptions are the best I've ever seen in a game -- and in many books. Instead of describing objects by their pragmatic function, they describe them aesthetically, building up a sense of wonder. It's one of the best rpg's ever made, and certainly the best open world rpg.
I already love this game! There is a YT channel called GDC (Game development Convention) CAves of Qud Dev does a seminar on his game. Top notch interesting stuff IMO
@@ShadeScarecrowlife sometimes does that to you. I have way less free time and patience than I did as a child. I used to be able to stay up all night and play video games for 10+ hours straight. These days I could probably do six hours in factorio but I'm definitely going to bed by 1am no matter what's happening in the factory.
@@Hawk7886 Same. I honestly could spend forty hours learning the mechanics of dwarf fortress, or dealing with a second-rate zombie shooter's janky behavior. Now? I have enough responsibilities that I just want a game to be singleplayer and relaxing.
If you start in Joppa, and walk around every map tile that is Joppa like, just the center tile, so when you drop down, just that one, the center one, not the additions. Auto explore that map, you should eventually find a corpse that is a pilot who crashed with some flying wings. They will be damaged, you'll need get them repaired, but they are a guaranteed drop of mechanical wings very early in the game. They are randomly placed at the start of the game in some center marsh tile. You can deal with diseases by getting a book from the mushroom city east of Joppa, that will handle the diseases in the game. One negative I have about the title, because there is nothing in the title that makes you go to that town before you go to the place where you are likely to contract a disease.
yuckwheat helps with disease onset aswell, as does having physic trained so you can stop disease onset on a campfire, no need for the corpus cholis. there's many ways to deal w/ diseases. if you have the telepathy mutation, you don't even care about that particular disease that much anyway :D the game is just asking different questions as you progress... ok you figured out basic combat, how do you deal w/ diseases? ok you figured it out, what about extreme temperatures? fungal infections? being dismembered? getting mutated?
I found a copy of Corpus Choliys long before I visited Kyakukya, I believe the guaranteed copy sold there is just meant to provide a failsafe in case you don't find one earlier. It's also likely that the reason you don't get a copy given to you in Joppa is exactly because of you being intended to interface with the fungal infection mechanic.
I guess this is a reference to Morrowind, where you find some guy falling out of the sky early on in the game. He has levitation scrolls on him that are super powerful!
I made the mistake of ignoring it the first time I saw a video from you on qud. I’ve since put 530 hours into it, so safe to say I’m sold. I love everything about this game
Have you experienced the fleeting moment of terror that is having Sheba spawn as a chrome pyramid? You're not in any danger, but for just a moment you feel fear as your character, having probably just finished the starting quest and passed through the salt desert to the stilt, is suddenly face to face with a literal death machine.
My first character is named the "one armed axe maniac" I was new and went exploring before I got a very very important qol item, if you know you know. Early on I stumbled into a portal (2nd floor of the caves I learned) that teleported me down a large number of floors. Luckily I splurged on a large amount of ammo. It took me 10 hours to fight my way out of that hell hole but not without losing an arm. Specced into axes since that decapitation seemed so effective. I eventually replaced it with a powered arm but that took a while.
Just lost my fully cybernetic'd-out Truekin to petrification. Handy tip: enemies that telegraph attacks with a red line sometimes hit adjacent tiles to the red line. 😂 Edit: I'm so glad to hear you gush about Qud. So many people could pass this by if they didn't hear how good it is from someone they trust. If you're reading this, give it a shot!
I played it a few years ago and was utterly fascinated by the scope of this game. Definitely worth the challenge to try and figure it out again when 1.0 drops. Glad you covered this one again.
I poured almost 300 into hours in this game a year ago, and went through maybe almost 50 single-life (ironman) characters... It's definitely the best roguelike I ever played. Not only that, but the fact there's a non-ironman mode now that saves your game each time you visit a town makes it even better. I still play ironman though haha. It's amazing, and I haven't even beaten it yet. Watching this makes me want to get into it again, it already feels nostalgic. I also absolutely love how the game is half randomized, and half static. For instance, almost each major locations do change in each playthrough, but everything else, down to the layouts, differ a lot.
This game consumed over 700 hours of my time in the first 4 months of playing it, it made me lose a job, lost social skills and distanced from a couple friends, 10/10 would repeat (the worst part is that its no bs, i did lose the job i was in for 2 yrs already, and caused me to stop seeing my friends)
Was wondering when you'd get to Qud. 1.0 is coming soon. My fav way of selling it is that you can spray consciousness onto wall and give it sentience and then befriend it as a battle brother. What wall you say? Whichever one you want. Feel free to cook up nanomachine infused bananas that give you the ability to watch the history of any object and learn out to craft it. Whichever you do have fun making your way to the orbital elevator.
Loved this so much. I'm waiting for the final release before jumping in again. I do wish it was more possible to play high DV low AV builds into the end game, that is really my only complaint. Really a glorious mashup of Gamma World / Morrowind / Kabbalah mysticism / psychedelic mushrooms.
This game is a whole vibe! I've had this game for over a year and I've only started getting into recently, but it's always reminded me of two things: Adventure Time and Book of the New Sun!
splat hasn't mentioned it yet but the music is sooo good and atmospheric; the game is worth its price just for the vibe; download it and just listen to the menu music and tell me I'm wrong😂
I want a sandbox/handcrafted procedural crafting rpg that has more role playing then just combat. Like trading, exploring and more. I like when you can avoid fights like a shield that reflects and kills an enemy like the shield on Minecraft, hiring a body guard. Sneaking past enemies invisibility all kinds or stuff. Can you own a house and go on more quests then just fighting? Seems like this game has a lot of what I want.
thank you for promoting my favourite indie of all times. its insane how its getting better and better. now for steam deck? sure. play with a controller? got it.
Qud, where you can one-shot the final story boss with a hand grenade, then accidentally hit your temporal fugue hotkey and one-shot yourself with the emergency backup hand grenade 10/10 game
I just watched a video where someone performed this crazy series of events that ended up with him becoming a playable door. Yup, he became a door and was massively OP. It was hilarious.
How perfectly timely. I’ve picked up Qud again recently after a bit of break. Been playing so much. Especially love the controller support (which I thought was impossible for something like Qud) which makes it a perfect steam link game on the iPad. I completely agree with all your praise!!
Not sure if you tried it but "Tales of Maj'Eyal" would probably be right up your alley. It's 6.99 on Steam but free on the Devs website. The steam version is basically to support the devs It's a pretty amazing game
Alright, I'm sold. I mean, I probably would have bought it eventually anyways - it's very much my jam - but the sheer passion in your monologue here definitely pushed it up my list.
I've fallin 50+ hours inside of two weeks in love with this game at least 4 times now, and since the molting update, this love session is going much deeper than 50. Now I'm on the way to that 1000H mark. So good. So different every time. BUT, one word of advice. If you want to enjoy the 'main quest line' at any point before the 100-500 hour mark, do yourself a favor and dont be a hero, and just play RP mode. This game is SO unforgiving. My heart dashed almost every night upon the rocks of permadeth for about 200 hours before I caved. Don't be like me. 😅
My only "gripe" with CoQ is the big city in the northwest is ALSO procedural, meaning you can end up with a bad roll on what shops are available up there. Not a huge problem overall, but it does kinda suck to start a run and once you get to the big city, you discover the shops you kinda rely on for your build idea just aren't there.
BRUH I just finished watching your recent video of caves of qud just because I liked how you played it ONLY TO HAVE YOU POST A NEW VIDEO ABOUT IT?! uncanny
Splatter, if you see this, do you have a series where you run through some of this game? Where you can show more in depth of how a run works? What are the purpose of the white squares that randomly start flowing everywhere and it usually has some numbers that pop up? I keep thinking it was like an explosion that hurt you or something. The graphics really do turn me off... even something a little more spritey would be great, but I also fucking love games with next to no boundaries.
Appreciate you and your work! Thank you for the upload. I love this game and I’ve been following it ever since you first covered it back in the day. What a treat!
Do you want to become that Apache Helicopter you've always joked about? Well maybe, but you can get tank tred legs and machine gun arms, which is pretty close.
I'm just going to go ahead and urge you to make as many caves of cut videos as you can. Thanks for covering it as much as you have, people really deserve to know. I cant even really remember how long I've been playing it... I got it shortly after it was initially released for free atound a decade ago or nore now...that we're finally at 1.0 is pure insanity. My favorite character ever made was an amnesiac with a random teleportation, precognition, an evil twin, and temporal vortex... Wild times, indeed. It took a day just to get all the points trimmed just right ai it was perfectly minmaxed.
Developed not just by Brian Bucklew; but by Jason Grinblat as well, both of whom are founders of Freehold Games. By now, a dozen or so people have contributed to CoQ - listed on the Freehold site. As for flight: Argyve mentioned his last apprentice, Skref the disembowelled - You can come across some flattened remains...
My Qud Story: Keep dying. Get mad. Become the monster. Four arms. Four legs. Spidermutant. Eat all meat. Focus on DV. Slowly progressing. Pick Double muscle over Precog because I picked classic mode for a reason. Find out how dangerous Frozen is. Prepare. Learn to manipulate faction rep. Keep finishing quests. Becoming an untouchable blender. Holographic bracelet is beyond powerful. Blood is best fuel. Saps are trauma. Find a chrome pyramid. Actually 1k rounds to kill it. Luck into 20 elec manipulation on artifacts. Learn about infinity penetration. Two swords two daggers two pistols. Learn about Moon Stair enemies like Star Kraken because a historic site is full of them. IDK why I keep surviving but also now the enemies are all "polymorphine" level nightmares too.
If anyone hasnt played this - Splatter is right. this game is absolutely phenomenal. There just isnt a comparison out there on the market that can match this game's flow.
Caves of Qud stole my attention from other games, now im playing only CoQ. Some situations I've made in game drastically funny. And I really like new sound design.
Hey since you say this game is definitely on your top games to get, I think it would be great if you made a video maybe once a year about the top games you recommend that you reviewed the past year.
This game is on crack. This game is crack. This game is crack on crack. Also the best drawbacks are blinking tic and the one that makes spacial vortexes. Blinking tic gets you out of melee quickly by accident and the vortex one is basically more fun Russian Roulette with your psy powers.
@@fish5671 Yes, that is the way I died to vortex. Definitely not getting teleported 50 levels underground into one of the hardest areas in the game. Yep, totally just by explosions.
I love the idea of this game but I struggle getting started. I start in the Jabba place, get a quest to go to a cave and... then I'm stuck. What do I need to bring before I leave the town, how do you combat? How do you travel on the map? I feel like once I got a handle on it, I'd love it but it's that initial start that is kind of hell.
An decent build for espers is this. Water baron as job, light beam, revitalize mind (the one that refreshs your powers), sunder mind, mental mirror as mutations and blinking tic as defect, stats are max ego and spend the remaining points on strenght, will and endurance leave agility and intelligence alone. then you level up until you get enough points to get prostalize and you are good to go
Played it years ago. The biggest problem was no mouse support and really hard to understand sprites/textures. I see they updated HUD to be much more user friendly, but sprites/textures are the same and it will get tedius and annoying after hours of play to click and check every small icon on the map to understand what's going on. But the game has massive potential. Was loving playing psy mutant with high charisma))
Now this is why I built my $4000 PC
Same haha! 😅
Are you me?
you joke but it might actually need it if its a unity game without using unity's multithreading system for a roguelike (hazarding a guess that this is the case)
dwarf fortress looks like an excel spreadsheet bbut has so much shit happening/being simulated that it eventually will inevitably tank your computer - this game can have similar issues where you do something that affects multiple levels of a dungeon and yeeeah
@@lawrence4301 Developer ported the game from Unity to Godot when Unity gone crazy ;-)
xD
COQ is so good, I love every inch of content the devs have slammed in me
I see what you did there
@@n3tw0rk_n3k0 Feature Friday! They update COQ almost every week it's amazing
hold up, wait a minute... something ain't right
COQ IS SO GUD?? No diddy
Thats what she said.
I played Qud on hard-core mode for several months. I specialized in phasing out, ranged combat, evasion, regeneration and carried instant heal fruits. I died with full (138 hp) in essentially one round by getting stunned from a distance.
I loved it, but I have EPTSD now.
This is what made me switch to roleplay mode. I have died in one round from stuff off screen too many times. There's no way I'm going to spend the time/brainpower/etc required to be 'cautious' enough to defend against anything.
@@SitWithItBob I'll give it a shot.
I would say that the game has evolved to the point where roleplay mode is the "main" way to play it
classic mode is for weirdos like me who like slamming their dick in a car door, at times (I have 600+ hours in Qud, so the dick slamming only SOMETIMES happens)
I found a random throne full of wiring in the desert. Sat in it. It took me to level 30 of a dungeon. I tried to sit in it again and it didnt work. The wildly more powerful mobs came in and killed me
That's my only detraction against Caves of Qud: It's prone to those one-hit death situations. You could be bumping along just fine, swing at a enemy that you've beaten a hundred times, and, oh no, they crit 4x, you ded. What could you have done differently? Use precognition, I guess. But the addition of RP mode does help with that.
Splattercat be like "this post apocalyptic survival strategy immersive sim is eating my ass"
He changed the title LOL
@@Bradley.Calavera what was the original XD
@@agall664 something something rpg is eating my life
@@Bradley.Calavera XD
@@Bradley.Calaveralol damn that coward
After some 160 hours I am 100% convinced that this is the best PC game available. So many ways you can build your character, so many places to go, things to do, enemies and friends to meet. Man can't believe how immersive it can be by just looking at those simplistic graphics. After some time you will feel that the reduced pixel count of the characters helps to ignite your imagination. I started playing 2 Splat Qud-videos before and I can assure you that "consuming my life" (or my thoughts) is not an exaggeration.
I love brogue. Still too intimidated to play this game. Failed many times and it never clicked.
You are delusional... there are much MUCH better games than this overrated shit, are u telling me that that unplayable crap is better than metro 2033, etc...? Lmao
@@websurferwizard There are a lot of enemy types but still finite, and mostly the same are found in a region/biome. Take your time, get to know them, always have a place to back up at the early levels (1~5) and when you go into dangerous territory: measning don't use the world map for travelling so you can go back to cleared screens. Play roleplay mode so you can continue at the last visited settlement when you die.
🤣🤣
Exactly!! My imagination is always sparked by this game. It’s like reading a book series vs watching the movie.
I love this game. I have over 300 hours in it so far and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface. Sometimes I have a really interesting run and feel sad knowing I'll never be able to fully duplicate that experience, but that's part of the beauty of this game. Nobody will ever have the same experience as you; not even another version of you.
I've been playing this since it first popped on Steam. It's one of those games that just consumes my life for a few weeks, I give it a rest for a couple months, then pop back and there's a tonne of new content and it consumes my life again.
The amount of content is truly wild. One of those games where you go "I wonder if I can do this" and the answer is usually yes.
Probably my fav game of all time
Lots of fond memories of this game and I never even played it.
"The albino ape is engaged in hand to hand combat and is too busy to have a conversation with you" - one of my favorite moments in gaming ever
Same and most from ssseth's video. I have started playing it though
Beautiful game, in every respect. I currently am a photosynthetic scorpion centaur with 3 arms and a big axe. Can't wait to die horribly.
Watching you play Caves of Qud instantly brought a smile to my face. I am really hoping I'll be able to see you play on Twitch when the 1.0 comes out. Great to hear you help me on this game too. Need all the help I can get lol
I know it aint your thing anymore but honestly I and I think a lot of us would go insane for a splat qud episodic
Come on splat, feel like it's been actual years now
Absolutely. I've owned the game for several years, pick it up now and again and never get past the initial learning curve, but love every time splat showcases it and could watch him play it for endless hours.
Yeah! I for real cannot think of any content creator I´d enjoy more watching play this game than Splatt (and I consume a lot of youtube).
I would go wild for this
@@JohnWilson-mk2jp You need to strategize even the way you build your character. If you get only two minor mutations (utility is best, like night vision and the one that give you more action speed) and dump the rest on three stacks of the perk that gives you the choice between three random mutations you can pretty much end up with all the useful mutations. Flaming ray on hands is also OP since it stacks heat on melee so you can ignite stuff pretty easily on a few hits. Also you will have better luck in combat if you treat it more like a weird version of chess instead of an RPG
Man, that music sends me back there in seconds.
The written descriptions are the best I've ever seen in a game -- and in many books. Instead of describing objects by their pragmatic function, they describe them aesthetically, building up a sense of wonder.
It's one of the best rpg's ever made, and certainly the best open world rpg.
I already love this game! There is a YT channel called GDC (Game development Convention) CAves of Qud Dev does a seminar on his game. Top notch interesting stuff IMO
This is also one of my favorite RPGs. Don't let the graphics fool you - the gameplay experience is DEEP.
I wish I had known this game in my childhood, I no longer have the patience or the time I had back then :(
Agreed 100%
Time I get, but how were you more patient as a child than you are now?
@@ShadeScarecrowlife sometimes does that to you. I have way less free time and patience than I did as a child. I used to be able to stay up all night and play video games for 10+ hours straight. These days I could probably do six hours in factorio but I'm definitely going to bed by 1am no matter what's happening in the factory.
@@Hawk7886 Same. I honestly could spend forty hours learning the mechanics of dwarf fortress, or dealing with a second-rate zombie shooter's janky behavior. Now? I have enough responsibilities that I just want a game to be singleplayer and relaxing.
@@Hawk7886 the answer is drugs
thank you. always makes me so happy to see a Qud video
I swear I see you everywhere literally ;-; (love ur game tho)
@@acklord7145 hell yeah brother
hell yeah dude thanks for covering Qud! Live and drink
Hey hey, people...
He actually likes the game but the Game Creator hates SSeth and he's the greatest advertiser for the game ironically.
Because he killed his furry character in the game he was just testing if it could be done he got so butthurt that he had the code it out in the game.
I just want to be a putus templar@@mikecampos1193
@@mikecampos1193I heard the creators are weird freaks
@amergingilesremember that game was paid off by the merchants Guild respect the members of the merchant Guild they have a lot of pull.
If you start in Joppa, and walk around every map tile that is Joppa like, just the center tile, so when you drop down, just that one, the center one, not the additions. Auto explore that map, you should eventually find a corpse that is a pilot who crashed with some flying wings. They will be damaged, you'll need get them repaired, but they are a guaranteed drop of mechanical wings very early in the game. They are randomly placed at the start of the game in some center marsh tile.
You can deal with diseases by getting a book from the mushroom city east of Joppa, that will handle the diseases in the game. One negative I have about the title, because there is nothing in the title that makes you go to that town before you go to the place where you are likely to contract a disease.
yuckwheat helps with disease onset aswell, as does having physic trained so you can stop disease onset on a campfire, no need for the corpus cholis. there's many ways to deal w/ diseases. if you have the telepathy mutation, you don't even care about that particular disease that much anyway :D
the game is just asking different questions as you progress... ok you figured out basic combat, how do you deal w/ diseases? ok you figured it out, what about extreme temperatures? fungal infections? being dismembered? getting mutated?
That's the guaranteed spot to find a copy. I usually find one at the Stilt long before I attempt Golgotha.
I found a copy of Corpus Choliys long before I visited Kyakukya, I believe the guaranteed copy sold there is just meant to provide a failsafe in case you don't find one earlier. It's also likely that the reason you don't get a copy given to you in Joppa is exactly because of you being intended to interface with the fungal infection mechanic.
You didn't think to check out what the giant red shrooms on the map was?
I guess this is a reference to Morrowind, where you find some guy falling out of the sky early on in the game. He has levitation scrolls on him that are super powerful!
Qud has been the Staple of my gaming, what it lacks in pixels it makes up for in depth.
I like the game's art style actually
I still remember your old video about it I love this game
I made the mistake of ignoring it the first time I saw a video from you on qud. I’ve since put 530 hours into it, so safe to say I’m sold. I love everything about this game
when that saw-hander came into view in melee range the phrase "ass pucker level 100" became true
better that than a chrome pyramid
Have you experienced the fleeting moment of terror that is having Sheba spawn as a chrome pyramid? You're not in any danger, but for just a moment you feel fear as your character, having probably just finished the starting quest and passed through the salt desert to the stilt, is suddenly face to face with a literal death machine.
@@luxuriousturnip181 the bigger problem is that you cant talk with her trough the force field
Bought this on your recommendation. I dropped your name in the review.
My first character is named the "one armed axe maniac"
I was new and went exploring before I got a very very important qol item, if you know you know. Early on I stumbled into a portal (2nd floor of the caves I learned) that teleported me down a large number of floors. Luckily I splurged on a large amount of ammo.
It took me 10 hours to fight my way out of that hell hole but not without losing an arm. Specced into axes since that decapitation seemed so effective. I eventually replaced it with a powered arm but that took a while.
Just lost my fully cybernetic'd-out Truekin to petrification. Handy tip: enemies that telegraph attacks with a red line sometimes hit adjacent tiles to the red line. 😂
Edit: I'm so glad to hear you gush about Qud. So many people could pass this by if they didn't hear how good it is from someone they trust. If you're reading this, give it a shot!
lost mine the other day too. turns out, high level templar can spawn with domesticated star kraken pets.
I just lost mine to the jungle people, i was searching for mamon location
0:59 - Jason Grinblat: Am I a joke to you??
I have put 1200+ hours into qud after your 1st recommendation video, however many years back that was
I played it a few years ago and was utterly fascinated by the scope of this game. Definitely worth the challenge to try and figure it out again when 1.0 drops. Glad you covered this one again.
I poured almost 300 into hours in this game a year ago, and went through maybe almost 50 single-life (ironman) characters... It's definitely the best roguelike I ever played. Not only that, but the fact there's a non-ironman mode now that saves your game each time you visit a town makes it even better. I still play ironman though haha. It's amazing, and I haven't even beaten it yet. Watching this makes me want to get into it again, it already feels nostalgic.
I also absolutely love how the game is half randomized, and half static. For instance, almost each major locations do change in each playthrough, but everything else, down to the layouts, differ a lot.
This game consumed over 700 hours of my time in the first 4 months of playing it, it made me lose a job, lost social skills and distanced from a couple friends, 10/10 would repeat (the worst part is that its no bs, i did lose the job i was in for 2 yrs already, and caused me to stop seeing my friends)
Was wondering when you'd get to Qud. 1.0 is coming soon. My fav way of selling it is that you can spray consciousness onto wall and give it sentience and then befriend it as a battle brother. What wall you say? Whichever one you want. Feel free to cook up nanomachine infused bananas that give you the ability to watch the history of any object and learn out to craft it. Whichever you do have fun making your way to the orbital elevator.
Loved this so much. I'm waiting for the final release before jumping in again.
I do wish it was more possible to play high DV low AV builds into the end game, that is really my only complaint.
Really a glorious mashup of Gamma World / Morrowind / Kabbalah mysticism / psychedelic mushrooms.
This game’s OST is beautiful
This game is a whole vibe! I've had this game for over a year and I've only started getting into recently, but it's always reminded me of two things: Adventure Time and Book of the New Sun!
I've been obsessed with this game since 2015 and I'm so glad to see it getting more love again!!!!
splat hasn't mentioned it yet but the music is sooo good and atmospheric; the game is worth its price just for the vibe; download it and just listen to the menu music and tell me I'm wrong😂
I want a sandbox/handcrafted procedural crafting rpg that has more role playing then just combat. Like trading, exploring and more. I like when you can avoid fights like a shield that reflects and kills an enemy like the shield on Minecraft, hiring a body guard. Sneaking past enemies invisibility all kinds or stuff. Can you own a house and go on more quests then just fighting? Seems like this game has a lot of what I want.
this is a reimagining of a game of the same name from back in the....oh i think the 90s? but still holds strong today! great video!
thank you for promoting my favourite indie of all times. its insane how its getting better and better. now for steam deck? sure. play with a controller? got it.
Qud, where you can one-shot the final story boss with a hand grenade, then accidentally hit your temporal fugue hotkey and one-shot yourself with the emergency backup hand grenade
10/10 game
I just watched a video where someone performed this crazy series of events that ended up with him becoming a playable door. Yup, he became a door and was massively OP. It was hilarious.
There's just something about QUD that I can't explain it really is unique.
How perfectly timely. I’ve picked up Qud again recently after a bit of break. Been playing so much. Especially love the controller support (which I thought was impossible for something like Qud) which makes it a perfect steam link game on the iPad.
I completely agree with all your praise!!
I have over 1000 hours in CoQ and I still see new things all the time. Definitely one of the best open world RPGs of all time.
Yes, I love Cave of Qud.
Not sure if you tried it but "Tales of Maj'Eyal" would probably be right up your alley. It's 6.99 on Steam but free on the Devs website.
The steam version is basically to support the devs
It's a pretty amazing game
Alright, I'm sold. I mean, I probably would have bought it eventually anyways - it's very much my jam - but the sheer passion in your monologue here definitely pushed it up my list.
I've fallin 50+ hours inside of two weeks in love with this game at least 4 times now, and since the molting update, this love session is going much deeper than 50. Now I'm on the way to that 1000H mark. So good. So different every time. BUT, one word of advice. If you want to enjoy the 'main quest line' at any point before the 100-500 hour mark, do yourself a favor and dont be a hero, and just play RP mode. This game is SO unforgiving. My heart dashed almost every night upon the rocks of permadeth for about 200 hours before I caved. Don't be like me. 😅
My only "gripe" with CoQ is the big city in the northwest is ALSO procedural, meaning you can end up with a bad roll on what shops are available up there. Not a huge problem overall, but it does kinda suck to start a run and once you get to the big city, you discover the shops you kinda rely on for your build idea just aren't there.
BRUH I just finished watching your recent video of caves of qud just because I liked how you played it ONLY TO HAVE YOU POST A NEW VIDEO ABOUT IT?! uncanny
Exciting times. Bought this game in 2019 or 2020.
Hyped to see it come together.
Splatter, if you see this, do you have a series where you run through some of this game? Where you can show more in depth of how a run works? What are the purpose of the white squares that randomly start flowing everywhere and it usually has some numbers that pop up? I keep thinking it was like an explosion that hurt you or something.
The graphics really do turn me off... even something a little more spritey would be great, but I also fucking love games with next to no boundaries.
Appreciate you and your work! Thank you for the upload. I love this game and I’ve been following it ever since you first covered it back in the day. What a treat!
Do you want to become that Apache Helicopter you've always joked about? Well maybe, but you can get tank tred legs and machine gun arms, which is pretty close.
I'm just going to go ahead and urge you to make as many caves of cut videos as you can.
Thanks for covering it as much as you have, people really deserve to know.
I cant even really remember how long I've been playing it... I got it shortly after it was initially released for free atound a decade ago or nore now...that we're finally at 1.0 is pure insanity.
My favorite character ever made was an amnesiac with a random teleportation, precognition, an evil twin, and temporal vortex... Wild times, indeed. It took a day just to get all the points trimmed just right ai it was perfectly minmaxed.
Just bought it on the summer sale. Been waiting for a while. Have no idea what I am doing. Need this video and about 100 more.
It hooked Splatt and left him speachlees, surprised and blown his socks off 😂
Understood … B-line to the Rainbow Forest.
In my opinion this is the best game of all time :)
😂 Love how you describe the freedom of game play by telling us how we can take away the free will of a boss lol. Great video!
Took a long break from Caves of Qud, this got me back into it seeing all the updates! Next thing you know I'm gonna be back on dwarf fortress....
Yeah my favorite roguelike rpg of all time quickly became my favorite game of all time. This game is incredible.
OH, I love Qud so much....my god I have to do some runs, it has been so long!
BTW if you are looking for wings, just go find Argyve's former apprentice's flattened remains in the center parasang of a salt marsh territory.
Oh this reminds me so much of the original Rogue. Childhood memories.
Love the splat, but all the time he's talking I'm like "dude u need to eat, plz look up your hunger!" Love CoQ, this game is awsome
I've had my eye on this for a while, but I'm really not sure what to make of it. Thanks this was helpful.
Reminds me of Ultima 1 2 and 3 which was young and lived in my room on my Amiga 1600
The Burrowing Claws mutation is something I always take when making a mutant.
Alright bro. Now you have convinced me, I am gonna give it a whirl! It is steam deck verified!
This RL and Cogmind are the best "newer" RL games up to date! Masterpieces In all senses IMO.
This is legitimately my favorite game
Developed not just by Brian Bucklew; but by Jason Grinblat as well, both of whom are founders of Freehold Games. By now, a dozen or so people have contributed to CoQ - listed on the Freehold site. As for flight:
Argyve mentioned his last apprentice, Skref the disembowelled - You can come across some flattened remains...
My Qud Story:
Keep dying.
Get mad.
Become the monster.
Four arms. Four legs. Spidermutant.
Eat all meat.
Focus on DV.
Slowly progressing.
Pick Double muscle over Precog because I picked classic mode for a reason.
Find out how dangerous Frozen is.
Prepare.
Learn to manipulate faction rep.
Keep finishing quests.
Becoming an untouchable blender.
Holographic bracelet is beyond powerful.
Blood is best fuel.
Saps are trauma.
Find a chrome pyramid.
Actually 1k rounds to kill it.
Luck into 20 elec manipulation on artifacts.
Learn about infinity penetration.
Two swords two daggers two pistols.
Learn about Moon Stair enemies like Star Kraken because a historic site is full of them.
IDK why I keep surviving but also now the enemies are all "polymorphine" level nightmares too.
It's interesting how differently different people approach CoQ.
I've never prioritized flight...
Your mom approaches CoQ.
If anyone hasnt played this - Splatter is right. this game is absolutely phenomenal. There just isnt a comparison out there on the market that can match this game's flow.
Live and drink Splat
Caves of Qud stole my attention from other games, now im playing only CoQ. Some situations I've made in game drastically funny. And I really like new sound design.
Hey since you say this game is definitely on your top games to get, I think it would be great if you made a video maybe once a year about the top games you recommend that you reviewed the past year.
Reminds me the days of multi-user dungeons in the 90s.
This game is on crack. This game is crack. This game is crack on crack.
Also the best drawbacks are blinking tic and the one that makes spacial vortexes. Blinking tic gets you out of melee quickly by accident and the vortex one is basically more fun Russian Roulette with your psy powers.
vortex can get you killed by causing an explosion, blinking tic is top tier though
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Yes, that is the way I died to vortex. Definitely not getting teleported 50 levels underground into one of the hardest areas in the game. Yep, totally just by explosions.
there is always mechanical wings on the flattened remains in the marshes. just gotta find em
Wooahhh! I havent played this in a while, the new UI for the Inventory & Equipment looks incredible!
This is my favorite game world. It is just wonderfully bizarre.
I love the idea of this game but I struggle getting started. I start in the Jabba place, get a quest to go to a cave and... then I'm stuck. What do I need to bring before I leave the town, how do you combat? How do you travel on the map?
I feel like once I got a handle on it, I'd love it but it's that initial start that is kind of hell.
An decent build for espers is this. Water baron as job, light beam, revitalize mind (the one that refreshs your powers), sunder mind, mental mirror as mutations and blinking tic as defect, stats are max ego and spend the remaining points on strenght, will and endurance leave agility and intelligence alone. then you level up until you get enough points to get prostalize and you are good to go
Reminds me of a graphical MUD called Wyvern that was popular in the late 90s and early 2000s.
If splat says it's a must buy, then that's what it is.
Live and drink! I love roguelikes.
Oh look. One of my favorite games of all time.
Sweet. :)
Oh noes he played it again
We need a qud series pleeeease
This looks much more enjoyable than my 3 or 4 five minute confused sprints to permadeath.
Played it years ago. The biggest problem was no mouse support and really hard to understand sprites/textures. I see they updated HUD to be much more user friendly, but sprites/textures are the same and it will get tedius and annoying after hours of play to click and check every small icon on the map to understand what's going on.
But the game has massive potential. Was loving playing psy mutant with high charisma))
I can't see a Caves of Qud video without thinking of Sseth's vid on it lol
hey hey people
I had to go back and re-watch Seth's video before I finished this one ha ha
… “It is an underground flying whale that belches out urchins that release sleep gas.” Is such a CoQ sentence. It’s got that Gamma World energy. >)X^D
So I can role play as Captain Ginyu, sign me up!
Well well well, looks like the Ironlord himself blesses us with another video! Praise be to the Cash Falcon! Praise be to the Ironlord!
Looks fun! Which is better, this OR Rogue's Tale?
You should really try Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. I think you'd love it :)