Caves of Qud is a Modern RPG Gaming Masterpiece

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  • Опубліковано 29 лип 2023
  • Caves of Qud Gameplay with Splattercat! Let's Play Caves of Qud and check out a game where you'll build a character from loads of skills, fight brutally difficult monsters, and survive the post apocalypse.
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  • @arglebargle42
    @arglebargle42 10 місяців тому +389

    My third playthough of Caves of Qud I threw a potion of animation at a door I couldn't open, just to get it out of the way.
    Turns out the newly sentient door was now my friend and then proceeded to ABSOLUTELY STOMP every other creature in the dungeon.
    Live and Drink, Waterbrother!

    • @SleepyLazyPanda
      @SleepyLazyPanda 10 місяців тому +8

      That's so awesome

    • @yoshi2501
      @yoshi2501 10 місяців тому +27

      I have over 700 hours in this game. What the hell is an "animation potion"?! Did you mean to say you applied 'spray-a-brain' from a maximum distance of 1 tile?

    • @amergingiles
      @amergingiles 9 місяців тому +2

      He is friend now.

    • @Criotos
      @Criotos 9 місяців тому +12

      I animated a block of shale and got blindsided by a mimic who also looked like shale
      I thought he was my friend 😭

    • @YummyWhiteLiquid
      @YummyWhiteLiquid 8 місяців тому +8

      I destroyed a concrete wall, i lost a concrete friend

  • @yobgodababua1862
    @yobgodababua1862 10 місяців тому +432

    Also, it's pretty awesome just reading the weekly patch notes. "Boulders are now less flammable." "Fixed bugs that prevented NPCs from equipping phylacteries and pickaxes." "Creatures who are lost can no longer give directions to other creatures who are lost." "Fixed a bug that made initial cryokinesis field deployment use colors appropriate to pyrokinesis." "Gave fire ant queens wings."

    • @snakeofminthumbugs330
      @snakeofminthumbugs330 10 місяців тому +20

      Yes, you begin to wonder how those bugs even existed, the notes for a small bug fix are huge.
      It's nice to see exactly what the changes are though.

    • @noctisocculta4820
      @noctisocculta4820 10 місяців тому +12

      @@snakeofminthumbugs330 Roguelike players are another breed of humans, lol. I worked on an indie game similar to this, and the bugfixes and patch notes I did were all kinds of insane. Discord players would report most of the bugs, or we'd find them while adding new features and testing the game.

    • @z0mb1d7
      @z0mb1d7 9 місяців тому +2

      The one about lost creatures hahahahha

    • @djlethargic
      @djlethargic 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@noctisocculta4820What's the game called?

    • @NayrAnur
      @NayrAnur 8 місяців тому +1

      It's like The Sims patch notes but more unhinged.

  • @ladams391
    @ladams391 10 місяців тому +117

    A tip for new players: this game is one of those that is highly cheese-able but the cheese is the kind that doesn't feel so much like you're breaking the game or exploiting poor balance, it feels more like you've cracked the code and you can see through the matrix. When you're just getting your footing in the game don't be afraid to lean hard into whatever cheesey loops you might find, you can always experiment with more generalized, balance-focused builds later with your next character after this one dies, which it will, I promise.

    • @arglebargle42
      @arglebargle42 10 місяців тому +17

      Also: The more you cheese it, the more the universe will actively seek to snuff you out so even if you get OP you will still be hounded by enemies even stronger.

    • @zachb8012
      @zachb8012 10 місяців тому +15

      Seems like the devs create these interactions to be exploited and so far I haven't really found a true, "cheese" build. Just builds that aren't fun, like duping cloning draught, but even the more OP builds hit a wall where the game tends to balance itself. For example the water kin/proselytize/beguile ego build works great... 'til you learn your glimmer assassin minion knows temporal fugue and starts casting burgeon 5x the second they see a snap jaw, or your beguiled troll friend from Bethesda Susa starts budding troll-lings which become hostile to the player when you navigate from one screen to another. My point is I've never, "finished" the game and eventually all characters were killed, some spectacularly, but most by something like being beaned in the head by a rock thrown by a baboon.

    • @RupertAndCheese
      @RupertAndCheese 10 місяців тому +14

      One I discovered is that Magma Crabs are a horrendous nuclear weapon; become one permanently, and carry blaze injectors.
      Overdose on blaze.
      Your temperature is now hot enough for quite a long time that anything near you instantly evaporates.
      How it works: Blaze overdose sets your body temperature to . The Magma Crab's ignition temperature is very very very high, so high in fact that it's above the maximum body temperature. Your body temperature is set to the maximum temperature, which is like 6 million. You radiate that heat every tick, and pretty much everything other than Magma Crabs has an evaporation temperature (read: cease to exist temp) far far lower.
      You can literally just OD on blaze, and every turn for a few minutes everything within like 3 tiles of you ceases to exist. (this was discovered more than a year ago maybe it's changed)

    • @lololllololololol
      @lololllololololol 9 місяців тому +5

      One of my first characters wound up being an 8-armed monk with hydrokinesis. If i couldn't chain-stun something to death, I'd drown it then chain-stun it to death ;D

    • @RupertAndCheese
      @RupertAndCheese 9 місяців тому

      @@lololllololololol The hell is hydrokinesis?

  • @CanalTremocos
    @CanalTremocos 10 місяців тому +81

    They didn't sign with the creators of DF, Bay 12, they signed with the same publisher, Kitfox Games. Kitfox is building an awesome portfolio.

  • @terrylyn
    @terrylyn 10 місяців тому +141

    For any technically minded there's an excellent talk by the devs at GDC how the generation algorithms in this game work.

    • @nazaxprime
      @nazaxprime 10 місяців тому

      Yup.

    • @radosawbugalski8370
      @radosawbugalski8370 10 місяців тому +1

      Could you, please, tl;dr it?

    • @harrylane4
      @harrylane4 7 місяців тому

      ⁠@@radosawbugalski8370tl;dr, gdc is a conference for game developers where they talk about the development of their games

  • @bilbo1778
    @bilbo1778 10 місяців тому +66

    The thing I like about Caves of Qud is despite having a minimal visual style it's FAAAR more approachable, streamlined, & optimized than Dwarf Fortress. It's the only old school rougelike (i.e. minimal graphics, permadeath, procedurally generated environments, etc.) I've sunk more than 100 hours into. No requirement to peruse the game wiki for hours to get started here - pretty much anyone can pick it up, play, & have fun almost immediately.

    • @kareningram6093
      @kareningram6093 10 місяців тому +7

      Agreed. I think it's a little more approachable than Cataclysm DDA, too. It's a complicated game and it's merciless, but the menu system is a lot more forgiving than similar games I've played.

    • @jayroi1814
      @jayroi1814 10 місяців тому +2

      Ah yes, an old school redlike.

    • @Steak818
      @Steak818 10 місяців тому +1

      @@jayroi1814 We call them redcomme games here. Sounds almost like redcommie, if you want my opinion.

    • @jayroi1814
      @jayroi1814 7 місяців тому

      kek @@Steak818

    • @Handles_arent_a_needed_feature
      @Handles_arent_a_needed_feature 6 місяців тому

      ​@kareningram6093 i mean cataclysm bn isnt that bad. The tileset for cata is way easier to read

  • @knight_lautrec_of_carim
    @knight_lautrec_of_carim 10 місяців тому +139

    Qud is pure atmosphere. I love how they managed to create such a believable world that seems so damn alien.

    • @Cenot4ph
      @Cenot4ph 10 місяців тому +7

      You gotta have a ton of imagination 😂 what I see is early 90s gaming, ive been there

    • @Jianju69
      @Jianju69 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Cenot4ph Early 90's? Dude, this is 70's gaming.

    • @Cenot4ph
      @Cenot4ph 9 місяців тому

      @@Jianju69 and 90s apparently

    • @Jianju69
      @Jianju69 9 місяців тому

      @@Cenot4ph -and, apparently, 2020's as well.

    • @Cenot4ph
      @Cenot4ph 9 місяців тому

      @@Jianju69 no, not that one ;)

  • @Thedrumsthebass
    @Thedrumsthebass 10 місяців тому +35

    I bought this game damn near 10 years ago. And let me tell you…
    It’s a legit desert island game.

  • @ladams391
    @ladams391 10 місяців тому +25

    Caves of Qud is one of those games that I look at and kind of marvel at the fact that it has managed to exist and continue existing long enough to get to the point it's at in today's gaming ecosystem. It's the sort of game that required a lot of faith from both the developers and prospective players to invest time and money into, especially because the scope and scale of what it promised was so very large. Faith is not something there's a lot of in modern gaming, for good reason what with all the big name studios and publishers rolling out blatantly unfinished titles and having the gall to weave microtransactions into games we already payed upfront for at such a foundational level that removing those monetization systems would require a rework of the entire game. This one was worth placing faith in, though, and I'm glad I bought it all those years ago, because watching it grow and mature into the game it has become has been a fascinating experience, and I'm so glad it has made it to where it is now.

    • @mrjtfang2
      @mrjtfang2 9 місяців тому +2

      Its so interesting for me as someone on the outside who doesn't typically play these games. I can see why people like it though, because its just so fucking crazy and huge, and people love the game despite the weird, cursed nature of the dev of the game.

    • @ladams391
      @ladams391 9 місяців тому +1

      @@mrjtfang2 It's interesting really, I bought the game years ago on a whim purely because it looked cool on the store page, and at that time I had little experience or interest in the majority of the traditional roguelike/rpg genre but got the game nonetheless. I played it for a while and enjoyed it, I was very impressed with the scope of the game and the sheer variety of experiences to be found within and the huge amount of agency it allows the player even in those relatively early days when the game was much smaller and less polished than it is now. Nonetheless, as always happens eventually, I ended up putting the game down for several years, though I did regularly check in on the progress it was making. Several years went by, it was around this time last year that I got really into the traditional roguelike/rpg scene, and by playing a number of other similar games I learned a lot about the history of roguelikes and what makes a good one good. This led me to a realization that was almost disappointing: while there are others that have a similar scope and scale and player agency/build diversity are staples of the genre, there really are no other games like Caves of Qud. It's a very unique blend of thematic and gameplay elements, and after realizing this my appreciation for it has only grown more.
      All of this is to say, I've owned this game so long (and during a period of my life where I was a young person and so my preferences in games and other media have developed over time) that I've managed to experience approaching the game as both someone who is on the outside of the traditional roguelike scene and later as someone with a lot more comprehensive knowledge and experience on that topic, so I feel positioned to say that Caves of Qud, with how vast and varied it is, is kind of like a partner/spouse/significant other - the relationship starts out good already, but with time, age, and most of all familiarity it gets drastically better.

  • @odin3489
    @odin3489 10 місяців тому +14

    HE DID IT, HE WENT BACK TO QUD.

  • @smcfanatique8519
    @smcfanatique8519 10 місяців тому +45

    I started playing this game a week ago after getting comfortable with traditional roguelikes through Path of Achra. Man, Caves of Qud is probably, no joke and I mean it that way, the best gaming experience I ever had. The random generation is so good in this game. Every plathrough feels different even with the same charackter. Random stuff that surpises you happens all the time. That creates a real adventure atmosphere and you never know what you will encounter around the next corner. And there is so much depth. Only played melee charackters for now but I found already so many ways to play them. If you would like to delve into this game but are scared because of the difficulty let me tell you that it is a hard game, but it is more accessible than you think. You may won't come far for a long time but you will have the time of your life if you like RPGs like I do. And the biggest surprise for me was how atmospheric this game is. The Soundtrack is top notch and the world building and lore really is on par with fallout 1+2 but it is portrayed a bit differently. If you love to explore vast and interesting open worlds and you are interested in random generation this is the game for you.

    • @captainprometheus3102
      @captainprometheus3102 10 місяців тому +5

      If you would take the time to watch Sseth's quick review/tutorial of the game, your mind will expand on how to play.

    • @smcfanatique8519
      @smcfanatique8519 10 місяців тому +5

      @@captainprometheus3102 I already watched it. Sseth's video was the reason I was interested in that game in the firs place

    • @Crustmajor
      @Crustmajor 10 місяців тому

      I highly recommend tales of Maj’Eyal if you like Qud

  • @BuranStrannik
    @BuranStrannik 10 місяців тому +27

    This may be the best introduction to this game so far.

  • @bikegeist
    @bikegeist 10 місяців тому +17

    If you've watched Splatt's videos over the years, this is one he often mentions in revered tones. Even before this, he often uses it as an example of these kinds of games done right. I haven't played the game yet, but I know I will at some point.

    • @MySphincter94
      @MySphincter94 10 місяців тому +1

      He is constantly referencing CoQ as an icon, yet also an iconoclast, in a world of high-budget, AAA bullshit. I've never once heard him bad mouth CoQ. And so far not one of the games he's recommended has let me down.

  • @dirtywhitellama
    @dirtywhitellama 10 місяців тому +13

    I love how formal and intellectual this game made you narrate.

  • @jasta07
    @jasta07 10 місяців тому +9

    One important thing to add is it's not just emergent content. There's a huge story questline to follow too if you want to.

  • @josh1382
    @josh1382 10 місяців тому +41

    Splat in my entire career in the sales industry I've never heard anyone pitch anything so perfectly as you did this game in the opening of this video. That was sell me this pen Wolf of Wallstreet sell me this pen level of identifying a need, communicating a solution, and your tonality captured my attention so well that I forgot what I was supposed to be doing and started writing this.

    • @pupip55
      @pupip55 10 місяців тому +4

      hey hey people, sseth here

    • @KaiserSquirrelz
      @KaiserSquirrelz 10 місяців тому +1

      I love Splat, but I guess the best sales pitch came from Sseth.

    • @amergingiles
      @amergingiles 10 місяців тому

      I have yet to find a game that Sseth has reviewed that I haven't already fallen in love with or found to be enjoyable.
      Except for the lizard vore game.
      I can only handle so much schizo.

    • @amergingiles
      @amergingiles 10 місяців тому +4

      Fun Fact: when Sseth reviewed this game, he mentioned that the devs got assmad that he suggested they implement Templar starts and that he made fun of their deviantart oc, QGirl.
      He had nothing but praise for the game, saying it's one of his favorites, but they ended up banning him from their discord and accusing half of their new customers, Sseth included, on being cryptofascists.
      Sseth is literally an Asheknazi jew with a pharmaceuticals degree who shitposts on the internet.

    • @trrxn666
      @trrxn666 10 місяців тому +4

      idk, personally I like this review more than Sseth's. It's more coherent.

  • @D0wn3y_
    @D0wn3y_ 10 місяців тому +13

    After watching your vids for years now.. I just realized how amazing you would do reading lore vids with that intro! Damn Splat you gifted

  • @grayaj23
    @grayaj23 10 місяців тому +3

    WIth the possible exception of Nethack 3, Qud is the greatest 'true roguelike' that has ever existed. Every year or so i spend a couple of months obsessed with it.
    If you kite the irritated tortoises, they're much easier to kill. They get a +3 defensive bonus when they haven't moved in the last turn. So step away, let it come to you and whack it. Then step away again.

  • @raidermaxx2324
    @raidermaxx2324 10 місяців тому +10

    this reminds me of one of the very first games i played on my dad's IBM 286, back in 1986... Ultima III, EXODUS

    • @BockwinkleB
      @BockwinkleB 10 місяців тому

      Ultima I for me, on my friend's Apple.

    • @raidermaxx2324
      @raidermaxx2324 10 місяців тому

      @@BockwinkleB of fucking snap!!! you must be ancient !!!! I'm not worthy.. im not worthy.. .. yea man Ultima III, and Bards Tale for me.. I can't even remember Ultima lol.. Oh yea playted alot of Kings Quest and Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry lol

  • @chadmunson6538
    @chadmunson6538 10 місяців тому +16

    As someone who has about 2500 hours in this world, I cannot recommend it enough.

  • @davesmith1044
    @davesmith1044 10 місяців тому +96

    CoQ and DF together, what a F-ing combo. I’ve more hours into these 2 games then I do any other.

    • @banaman7746
      @banaman7746 10 місяців тому +5

      indeed. they decide to combine the procedural generation and world development and open RPG aspects of both those games... the bar for rpg's are going to just get destroyed.

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough 10 місяців тому +2

      RIGHT?! Crazy combo, I would have figured those kind of devs could never compromise their vision and work together like that.. glad to know I'm wrong 😂

    • @danilpolunin4255
      @danilpolunin4255 10 місяців тому +7

      You should also try CDDA

    • @NahuelPavano
      @NahuelPavano 10 місяців тому +5

      Don`t leave Cogmind behind. It belong with those 2

    • @matthewsanchez7953
      @matthewsanchez7953 10 місяців тому +3

      I'd actually really enjoy it if DF Adventure Mode ended up looking like Qud.

  • @yobgodababua1862
    @yobgodababua1862 10 місяців тому +6

    My shameful admission is that I've been playing a lot more Qud lately than I have DF.
    I do really appreciate the relatively new "save at villages" mode so that I don't have to start completely over in the rust pits every time I'm brutally slain by some new horrifying foe.
    I've taken the Wardens Esther to the Spindle, saved the Barathrumites, murdered the Barathrumites, cured glotrot wit the Flaming Ick, found the Ruin of House Isner, pawned the Ruin of House Isner to a Dromad Merchant, been stoned to death by apes, been an ape, cooked neutron flux, and generally had an amazing time in this twiested twisted world.
    Live and Drink Friend. And may you remain ever rustless. (Steam claims I'm now over 500 hours in Qud...)

    • @monke-dt1tn
      @monke-dt1tn 9 місяців тому

      I demand an update on your playtime. Also, what build did you use as an ape?

  • @brightboar4421
    @brightboar4421 10 місяців тому +4

    My man just casually pulling out Stopsvalinn during his review.

  • @Vesdus
    @Vesdus 10 місяців тому +4

    When I clicked on this video I didn't expect to get a Splattercat narration. Wonderful!

  • @ghstbstr
    @ghstbstr 10 місяців тому +3

    I had to check at first at the start of the video as I thought that I was on a different stream, because I wasn’t sure if I was in the nerd castle. Has to be the first time that Splat hasn’t said “What’s up guys and gals welcome back to the nerd castle”.

  • @dicksoncider5099
    @dicksoncider5099 10 місяців тому +22

    This opening was spectacular. Well done

  • @noctiscaeli2981
    @noctiscaeli2981 8 місяців тому

    Really glad you came back to this. Caves of Qud was one of the first videos of you're I watched maybe 8 years ago. I got a steam account just to try it out. And you're right, it really is a special game. Thanks for the nostalgia and I hope a few others will try the game out too

  • @Godaronful
    @Godaronful 10 місяців тому +56

    When the game looks like it's running on Microsoft Excel you know it's gonna be amazing

    • @Raulikien
      @Raulikien 10 місяців тому +8

      I dunno, everyone's free to play whatever they want but personally I'm never touching a game that looks like this. My minimum standard for awful graphics if the gameplay is sick, is like Terraria level graphics. At least this is kinda better than the old Dwarf Fortress mess lol.

    • @igorthelight
      @igorthelight 10 місяців тому +7

      @@Raulikien I really want to like games like Caves of Quid or non-Steam Dwarf Fortress...
      But I can't! Those graphics, maaaan! xD

    • @VarenvelDarakus
      @VarenvelDarakus 10 місяців тому +5

      would i recommend you CDDA too¬(cataclysm dark days ahead)

    • @Zanaki113
      @Zanaki113 10 місяців тому +14

      @@Raulikien its not for everyone, these games really rely on the players imagination, but if you have an active or easily influenced imagination the game is like skyrim/fallout x100
      BUT if you're unable to get immersed the game isn't gonna stick, unless someone REALLY likes rpgs.

    • @capnheehee8103
      @capnheehee8103 10 місяців тому +5

      @@Raulikien I'm so glad that I'm old enough to remember playing text-based games in DOS. I do not have this mental block, because my very first exposures to gaming involved moving single ASCII characters across the screen to fight other ASCII characters, and others in which I had to read a room description and type "Pick up iron key" or "look north."
      I really think this is a block that's worth pushing through, though. It's like reading for pleasure -- far less popular than it was pre-television, but wonderful if you learn how to appreciate it. It takes some practice with your mind's eye muscles.

  • @rodneyrogers1319
    @rodneyrogers1319 10 місяців тому +8

    Dude I love Splatts commentary, and Qud is one of the best games to watch him play.

  • @TheFeralFerret
    @TheFeralFerret 6 місяців тому +1

    Fun fact about glowspheres... they are not a mysterious artifact of a prior era. Instead these are the useful litter box scrapings of the humble glowcat. You'll always find some in the inventory of any glowcat farmer.
    Live and drink.

  • @tyler89557
    @tyler89557 10 місяців тому +3

    My favorite moment was playing a 20+ hour character that I got to level 30+.
    I was scouring the underground for hidden ruins in search of cybernetics, or at least credits to install the cybernetics I already had or books to turn in for experience up at the Stilt. I came upon a salt kraken, noting that the hulking beast excreted scrap that I could scavenge for parts to make into weapons and ammo. I got a little to overzealous in searching through its excrement that I ended up on the wrong side of the salt kraken, who promptly ate me and the ground beneath me as he moved on with his day.
    My character survived getting trapped by magma slimes while being pelted with guns from desert bandits. From diseases that would make even the most brave of men tremble and quiver. From unspeakable horrors the likes of which would not be believed by those who have not traversed through the world of Qud.
    Only to end up in some beasts excrement without even putting up a fight.

  • @enufgaming5042
    @enufgaming5042 10 місяців тому +1

    my favorite part about this game, is the fact i’ve seen you play it multiple times over the last 6-7 years and loved every bit of it

  • @MisterZealot
    @MisterZealot 10 місяців тому +6

    My boi splatt getting serious with the intro. Chills

  • @OldieWan
    @OldieWan 10 місяців тому +16

    I absolutely love CoQ! I have lived out many generations of fathers sons & daughters within the worlds of Qud. Each child taking the best attributes of their parents into the new world that is before them. And I have not even scratched the surface.

    • @BintangGaryo
      @BintangGaryo 10 місяців тому +4

      I too love CoQ!

    • @StudioBleenk
      @StudioBleenk 10 місяців тому +1

      hehe CoQ

    • @OldieWan
      @OldieWan 10 місяців тому +1

      @@StudioBleenk 😅😅😅🤣😆😄😂 Took me a minute and then I was like LMAO. I walked into that one.

    • @nuke2k
      @nuke2k 5 місяців тому +1

      Everybody loves some CoQ every now and then ;)

  • @LastingLux
    @LastingLux 10 місяців тому +2

    I watched your play throughs wayy wayy back, it was great, I bought CoQ because of you

  • @muzzyman1981
    @muzzyman1981 10 місяців тому +9

    That was an impressive opening. Well done!

  • @wetterschneider
    @wetterschneider 10 місяців тому +4

    I don't believe I've ever heard you soooo excited about a game. We can hear it in your voice.

  • @cchamp4
    @cchamp4 10 місяців тому +4

    What a rousing rendition for an amazing game. Sounded like a completely different Splatt at the beginning of the video, and I loved every second. Apparently I've got 410 hours on this game so far, and I completely agree with your assessment. It's a masterpiece

  • @Theosibo
    @Theosibo 10 місяців тому +6

    It was no surprise at all to learn Kitfox picked this one up. If there is ANY game that has the legacy and quality of improvement for many, MANY years that Dwarf Fortress does, it's Caves of Qud. Think more sci-fi/fantasy adventure and less fortress building. I LOVE this game. The story generation and unique adventure crafting is second to NONE. I'm only at 44 hours in but I know this title will get better and better and better for MANY years to come.

  • @_Jay_Maker_
    @_Jay_Maker_ 9 місяців тому +1

    You don't "play" Qud. You visit. It's my favorite game of all time. I passed on this game for a long time because of the "graphics," and I couldn't have been more fucking wrong in my entire life. After I played it for a few hours, I realized that I'd been missing out on one of the best gaming experiences for way, way too long. I no longer give a shit about graphics in games. If the game's good, the game's good.
    Fighting off your own evil clone who's capable of spawning more clones who also clone themselves, and then stealing his body _mid-combat_ and _killing your old body_ while you live on _Scanners_-style is still unreal to me. Love, love, love this game.

  • @Sorin2120
    @Sorin2120 10 місяців тому +3

    The only game I've played for months. Love to see it get more recognition!

  • @Roy_Oy
    @Roy_Oy 10 місяців тому +1

    Best introduction you've done thus far!

  • @Spaloooshify
    @Spaloooshify 10 місяців тому +1

    It's funny because I was trying to remember who you were but also this game and when I found out the game and searched it, it brought me back to YOU. 😂 HOPEFULLY can get your videos back into my daily rotation now.

  • @TokerChron
    @TokerChron 10 місяців тому

    your style on intro is by far the most appealing and drawing me in intro i have seen you make as of yet ... awesome 2 min intro!!

    • @TokerChron
      @TokerChron 10 місяців тому

      i have had CoQ for over 6 years and you may have done better than me in my 12 runs x 450 is hrs

    • @alexanderdiogenes8067
      @alexanderdiogenes8067 10 місяців тому

      Yeah, and it's the same template as the first voiced trailer years ago. All you have to do is list some of the cool stuff you did and you've got a compelling pitch.

  • @tompuce84
    @tompuce84 10 місяців тому +1

    Man I liked this video a lot, I like all of the splatter cat stuff but I really like this one a lot a lot :D

  • @danm3570
    @danm3570 9 місяців тому +2

    the graphics actually make this game appealing to me, it reminds me of ultima 4 and crpgs around that time

  • @zachb8012
    @zachb8012 10 місяців тому +1

    I love this game. I have played it every few months since 2015 and discover new things every run. I have to say, I play RPG mode almost exclusively, and have never looked back. There's a lot of what folks will call, "artificial difficulty" as a rogue like, because a single mistake will often result in your death, slow or immediate. As a rogue that can be frustrating but if that decision only sets you back a few steps, it stings less and becomes part of a learning experience. Plus the majority of the game's content lies beyond the 10 hour mark of a run. My recommendation is to play the campfire saving mod or at the very least RPG mode if you're new to Qud.

  • @lukusblack6442
    @lukusblack6442 10 місяців тому +3

    This reminds me of my days in Moria, Boss, and Omega. *Thousands* of hours were spent in those games, usually at night when my mother thought I was sleeping... thus my exemplary grades in school...

  • @nekkomacioce
    @nekkomacioce 10 місяців тому +3

    This game looks like MUME had a baby with dwarf fortress and that baby was raised by Kenshi. Sounds cool!

  • @ohdubwest7533
    @ohdubwest7533 10 місяців тому +5

    A bit more poetic than usual Matt. It’s interesting when a game inspires you to go beyond prose.

  • @ShamblerDK
    @ShamblerDK 10 місяців тому +1

    I could watch you play this for hours on end.

  • @Reoh0z
    @Reoh0z 10 місяців тому +3

    You've gotta be Qudding me.

  • @Wolfsheim23
    @Wolfsheim23 10 місяців тому +1

    Wow that's the most talking Splatt ever spoke over a game. Even heard a part of him I've never heard before.

  • @Emilioisasi
    @Emilioisasi 9 місяців тому +1

    These rpg games overwhelm me hahaha. Great channel!

  • @guidodima
    @guidodima 10 місяців тому +5

    After +10y following, felt awfully weird not to hear your usual Welcome

  • @dt7202
    @dt7202 10 місяців тому +5

    This game is amazing! I always come back to it

  • @LegioPanda
    @LegioPanda 10 місяців тому +1

    Stay with the one that talks about you as passionately as Splatter talks about Caves of Qud.

  • @Flemingluiz-mr9ep
    @Flemingluiz-mr9ep 10 місяців тому +1

    Today i reached 1200 hours in this game. This game Changed me deeply i have made Art about it, made mods for it. It havent been a Day since i first played it. That i didnt thought about this game,imagined myself on it. I love to see Artwork people made about this game. Just like the gameitself all of them are very unique even if they are about the same thing. Everyone have its own way to interpretate the descriptions and sprites in their own way. This game is trully a Masterpiece and im happy that is getting more recognition now.

  • @dakaodo
    @dakaodo 10 місяців тому +25

    I've never even heard of Caves of Qud, but I played the original Rogue and NetHack (and various ASCII/sprite forks). This was a fascinating bit of gaming history and anthropology!

    • @BockwinkleB
      @BockwinkleB 10 місяців тому +3

      Rogue was so great. Used to waste time playing it at university in the early 90s instead of programming my projects.

    • @Aurinkohirvi
      @Aurinkohirvi 10 місяців тому

      Played Nethack with Vulture's Eye graphics. I think it is still the best dungeon crawler RPG ever. What you can do, the NPCs can do, what items you can use, they can use, you drop an item, they can pick it up. Helluva challenging.

  • @Tyfyss
    @Tyfyss 10 місяців тому +1

    This intro...grabbed me by my nethers and wouldn't let me go.

  • @kirkenstiensmonster6522
    @kirkenstiensmonster6522 6 місяців тому +1

    Tortuga Muerte would be a sick name for a metal band.

  • @Sarcose
    @Sarcose 6 місяців тому

    First several moves: steal from the chests in Joppa (close the doors, make sure no one sees you), get the quest from Mehmet, do the water ritual with Mehmet and Irudad and learn harvestry, buy lead slugs and a rifle from Tam, give two artifacts to the artificer and loot his chests, take one chest into your inventory and put any yuckwheat into it (so when you get confused or eat witchwood you can find it and eat it to cure confusion), then head to the salt desert and hug the edges of the map tiles, avoiding dawn gliders, until you kill enough Issachari Raiders to level a couple times and pick up a desert rifle.
    No matter your build this strategy is the ideal Joppa start IMO

  • @BloodBrudda1
    @BloodBrudda1 10 місяців тому +3

    I love this game. So glad you keep coming back to it

  • @bernard832
    @bernard832 10 місяців тому +4

    Steam says I haven't played Caves of Qud since 2017, but that intro convinced me to go back.

  • @shayneoneill1506
    @shayneoneill1506 10 місяців тому +2

    Just to clarify , Kitfox games did not create Dwarf Fortress, they just publish it, and managed to make the Adams brothers loaded in the process (well deserved after 20+ years of developing DF in near poverty).. They seem to be decent people who have let DF flourish under their new arangement, so I strongly suspect they'll be good to Qud's creators.

  • @archindar_
    @archindar_ 10 місяців тому +10

    Oh, if you like Caves of Qud, you need to try C:DDA

    • @Ninja40K
      @Ninja40K 10 місяців тому

      You need a Ph.D. to play it.

    • @robcoguy6909
      @robcoguy6909 10 місяців тому +1

      @@Ninja40K C:DDA has come a long way recentlyin terms of becoming way more user friendly. Catapult launcher's been the best version so far for all the included mods and scenarios.

    • @richiebee33
      @richiebee33 10 місяців тому +1

      Splat talks about C:DDA constantly, it's one of his faves

    • @richiebee33
      @richiebee33 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Ninja40KYou don't have one, yet? Everyone is doing it

  • @elg3cko
    @elg3cko 8 місяців тому

    After a long break from playing Caves of Qud, I also came back this year. It's been very awesome and one of my favorite items I've found recently was the tattoo gun. I've started to tattoo every part of my body.

  • @montolio3288
    @montolio3288 10 місяців тому +2

    I did play ADOM a lot, but never heard about this, thanks a lot Splatt.

    • @tymmezinni
      @tymmezinni 10 місяців тому +1

      This, ADOM, and C:DDA are my 3 big go-to recommendations for current-day Rogue variants.

  • @sunnyjim1355
    @sunnyjim1355 10 місяців тому

    Seems like almost every time I open Steam that there's an update for this game. It really is a labour of love: "a Domino factum est istud et est mirabile in oculis nostris".

  • @isitanos
    @isitanos 10 місяців тому

    Roguelikes are just amazing, aren't they? Thanks for sharing your passion. I think you'd love Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup too, it really refined the single sprawling dungeon style down to an artform, and it has a crazy variety of races, classes and gods.
    I think Caves of Qud graphics are great BTW, they're abstract enough to let your imagination fill in the blanks, but at the same time are full of small details that add atmosphere, like the flickering lanterns.

  • @johnny_hammer
    @johnny_hammer 10 місяців тому +1

    i have 200 hours in cod and was playing one day and was told by an on-looker that the game looked easy and dumb. I started them up a new character and let them play. they walked south from joppa. i seen an aligator and surely thought well this is gonna be the end of their run...they didnt even notice it lol seconds later they find a stairway and climb down it and walk right next to a slumberling.....game over. they died with 0 exp points earned. i was so proud of caves of qud.

  • @jayst
    @jayst 7 місяців тому

    Caves of Qud is one of the best games ever made in my opinion. To anyone who is on the fence about it, if you like RPG’s or roguelikes, you will like this game. It does not have to be permadeath if you don’t like that aspect of roguelikes. This game has been an obsession of mine for the last year or so and it just keeps getting better. They just released the beta for the new update too and the visuals keep getting better with more quests too.
    To give a little window into what you can expect: you can play as a wizard type character called an “esper” and the game becomes completely different from other builds. Normal enemies become pathetic compared to your power. You are no longer facing scary dungeons or boss battles. Instead, now you are playing a game of cat and mouse - being chased by extradimensional psychic assassins that will show up at inopportune times and give you the fights of your life.
    This game allows you to really break it wide open if you experiment a bit, and I think that’s what makes it so fun for so long.

  • @SonySteals
    @SonySteals 9 місяців тому +2

    This game is very pretty. It’s obviously designed that way and I love it. Color choice is also very good. You can easily tell there’s someone with artistic taste and talent behind it.

    • @darmakx99
      @darmakx99 6 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, with so few pixels and colors per sprite they still manage to create incredibly evocative artwork of creatures and locations and items. Plus I feel like the lack of detail works in the game's favor because the wonderful descriptive text would be very tough to accurately portray with higher fidelity sprites, so the lofi ones let you fill in the blanks with your imagination.

  • @CapnSnackbeard
    @CapnSnackbeard 10 місяців тому +24

    What a rad collab! Grats devs! Grats DF boys! This could be the beginning of one of the best gaming companies ever.

  • @jeremylackey6587
    @jeremylackey6587 5 місяців тому

    Sometimes this game makes you feel like sci fi conan the barbarian.
    Ambushed by 50 or so snapjaws in a narrow canyon, Nimjasakha Oli-Omonur stood her ground armed only with a knife and a combination of Psionic barriers and hand made acid grenades turned the whole army of snapjaws to fresh meat. Then their leader, a legendary warlord appeared and we fought a brutal and bloody battle on the butcher corpses of his fellows.
    After a long back and forth, he lobbed off my left arm, but i finally got his heart with the knife in my right. After flopping to the ground for a quick breather, i stuck my arm with a salve that regenerated my arm, and my adventure coninued

  • @eddieballgame
    @eddieballgame 10 місяців тому

    Great video extolling all that is good about this gem.

  • @scottshaffer8686
    @scottshaffer8686 10 місяців тому

    I see you did play it on twitch. Thank you. I listen to your videos as I work.

  • @TherealTenmanI
    @TherealTenmanI 10 місяців тому +2

    >stopsvallin
    Its a stop sign with a 9 volt taped to it. Robots can't ignore their official symbols of the old world such as traffic directions.

  • @grandfremdling3841
    @grandfremdling3841 10 місяців тому +2

    This was a really positive review!

  • @knight_lautrec_of_carim
    @knight_lautrec_of_carim 10 місяців тому +1

    Your Thirst Is Mine, My Water Is Yours

  • @forrest1777
    @forrest1777 10 місяців тому +1

    Man, this game hits hard

  • @noctisocculta4820
    @noctisocculta4820 10 місяців тому

    My favourite roguelike! Jupiter Hell (and predecessor D**mRL) being a close second.

  • @JohnClarkW
    @JohnClarkW 10 місяців тому

    I felk in love with this game after your last video on it. Live and drink.

  • @user-vf9zd8rw9f
    @user-vf9zd8rw9f 10 місяців тому

    I'm glad you have stuck with this game with at least 3 reviews now i know of. It truly is a work of art. As well, one hell of a game. It's the dwarf fortress of roguelikes.
    ps. You dont start out with random faction relations everytime do you?

  • @Lustvig
    @Lustvig 3 місяці тому

    This sounds like the Gamma World based game I've waited 40 years for!!!

  • @jonasan77
    @jonasan77 9 місяців тому

    This is an awesome video mate, I'm super impressed with you content. fair play. Qud looks amaizng, been on my list for i dont know how long. The time is coming soon though! cheers

  • @reddishm1st
    @reddishm1st 10 місяців тому +2

    Great cold open!

  • @Ar0474
    @Ar0474 9 місяців тому

    I want more games like this, seriously, why is this not more popular?

    • @xJayhawkFANx
      @xJayhawkFANx 6 місяців тому +1

      Because it looks like an Excel sheet probably

  • @scottshaffer8686
    @scottshaffer8686 10 місяців тому

    I picked this game up last week because of your older play series on youtube. Could you play it on Twitch also, it is fun watching you play.

  • @elbonnybar
    @elbonnybar 10 місяців тому

    Great intro... Also this game kicked muy teeth un for about 1 year

  • @keith3946
    @keith3946 10 місяців тому +455

    Hey hey people, Sseth here.

    • @Ninja40K
      @Ninja40K 10 місяців тому +9

      That's a lie 🐍

    • @WiseOwl_1408
      @WiseOwl_1408 10 місяців тому +8

      No humor here. Definitely not sseths channel

    • @cernunnos_lives
      @cernunnos_lives 10 місяців тому +8

      Don't toy with our feelings...

    • @pupip55
      @pupip55 10 місяців тому +20

      Going have to watch his reviews again

    • @PaulBeetge
      @PaulBeetge 10 місяців тому +8

      Love Sseth

  • @genericvillain7534
    @genericvillain7534 10 місяців тому +1

    All hail Taco Suprema con Crema!

  • @CainKellye
    @CainKellye 9 місяців тому

    Just came back to say after watching this vid and researching a bit I contemplated for 1-2 days to buy it. Then a weekend sale of 10% hit which was the sign. I had more than 40 hours since which might not sound much but with having a toddler it is. I had to buy Shattered Pixel Dungeon for my phone to ease the Qud-itching I got while I can't sit at my computer.
    Thanks! :D

  • @zackbob6
    @zackbob6 10 місяців тому +1

    Reminds me of an old ASCII game I used to play called Cataclysm DDA

  • @mikewest7839
    @mikewest7839 10 місяців тому

    There aren't many games that i'd watch you play through, but due to the randomness, the complexity and fundamentally the lack of spoilers, this is one. I'm one of those die in the Rust Pits players. I've made it out a couple of times and died to some random thing shooting me from off screen. Certainly understood mutations more than cyborg add ons though.
    I think Stone Soup is a much easier game to drop in and out of, Qud really neds investment.

  • @joaodfreire
    @joaodfreire 10 місяців тому +1

    Remember when I was a kid and had to load k7 tapes on my MSX computer to play Dragon Quest.

  • @ArkDEngal
    @ArkDEngal 10 місяців тому +1

    love the szeth ref gg

  • @Bandi1138
    @Bandi1138 10 місяців тому +1

    7 mins into this video I went directly to steam and bought this game

  • @ATZag135
    @ATZag135 8 місяців тому

    ThankYou SirSplatt

  • @CAVEDATA
    @CAVEDATA 10 місяців тому +1

    It truly is. Its also the dwarf fortress devs fave game. Nuff said.