Climb some psychic crystals and get dreamcrungled within the newest Caves of Qud launch

Delightfully unusual classical roguelike Caves of Qud acquired an update at present, including the ultimate area of Qud’s late-game and a brand new stretch of the primary quest to go together with it. Qud has had numerous updates in between, however that is the primary addition to the primary quest for the reason that Tomb of the Eaters just a few years again.

The Moon Stair update is a giant one, and provides all method of latest critters and gadgets alongside the Moon Stair itself, a area partially terraformed into psychic-power-inflected biomes by crystals. It additionally features a new village, akin to they’re within the post-apocalyptic science-fantasy panorama of Qud, with Chavvah, the Tree of Life and its NPCs.

It additionally has the newest in Qud’s UX and UI overhaul, which has introduced an ever-greater stage of accessibility to the game. Whereas it is a very conventional roguelike in some ways, its new UI has added loads of multifunctional help for controllers and mouse stuff. This newest design move tweaks broad rendering like play space, and in addition new UI bits for issues like focusing on, choices, and the assistance screens.

In fact, no Qud update can be full with out delightfully gibberish additions like the next: “Added a brand new liquid: heat static,” which is seemingly one thing you may drink. Not ok? Maybe “Horns now regrow correctly when you should not have a head after which develop a brand new one” is extra your pace. That is, in spite of everything, the game where you may have like 12 arms.

Qud has solely gotten simpler to play through the years, and I would encourage anybody concerned with science fantasy, dynamic storytelling, deep simulation mechanics, or traditional roguelikes to dive in posthaste. Tons of of joyous hours await you.

As do new creatures, such because the: “zero jell, unimax, dawning ape, n-dimensional starshell, dreamcrungle, glow-wight apotheote, monad, and dream wren.” And, as Freehold Video games informed me in an electronic mail, “loads of extraordinarily bizarre stuff you’d solely discover in a area terraformed by psychic crystals.” You’ll find the total patch notes on Steam.

You’ll find Caves of Qud on GOG, itch.io, and Steam.