Yes, worth buying.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $23.99.
- Story and characters: 111 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 59 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 41 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 31 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 18 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 13k player reviews · updated 4 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
There's just a whole pile of lore, and a lot of interesting cultures and dialogue and stuff to see.
Caves of Qud has easily become one of my favorite games and I place its complexity and amazing gameplay up there with Zomboid (personally even above it).
The graphics, by the way, are pretty nice.
CoQ plays great on Steam Deck too.
I feel like the music is a little plain, to the point where I generally have it turned down very low, since by default it is at like 100% volume just like the sound effects and it can drown out everything else a bit in some areas, but it does make good wallpaper, and certain areas like the 'salt dunes' have a great soundtrack that really immerses you, so it's kind of inconsistent at best.
I bet you could also play it with a controller and enjoy it that way, but I stuck with the keyboard.
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Currently $23.99 (−20%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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