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Caves of Qud
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Caves of Qud

Dec 5, 2024 Steam: Overwhelmingly Positive

Give it 5 hours

Gets good by 5h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 69% of owners
Steam reviews 95% positive of 12,750

What the data shows

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

before it gets good opening up fully opened up

Based on all 12,797 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 43h for positive, 5.6h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (69.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.

All achievements (150)

story milestone ending side

  • Welcome to Qud Die. 100%
  • Jawsnapper Kill 100 snapjaws. 56%
  • What's Eating the Watervine? Complete the quest What's Eating the Watervine? 51%
  • Litteratus Read 10 books. 42%
  • May the Ground Shake But the Six Day Stilt Never Tumble Travel to the Six Day Stilt. 36%
  • Waterpipe and Rest Smoke from a hookah. 36%
  • Weirdwire Conduit.. Eureka! Help Argyve build the contraption. 32%
  • Raisins in the Layer Cake Recover a relic from a historic site. 26%
  • What With the Disembowelment and All Find one of Argyve's old apprentices. 25%
  • A Bond Knit with Trust Become loved by a faction. 25%
  • That Was Nice Compliment Q Girl. 22%
  • Sight Older Than Sight Discover psychic glimmer. 19%
  • Proteus Have 10 mutations. 19%
  • More than a Willing Spirit Return from Golgotha with a repaired waydroid and gain admittance to Grit Gate. 18%
  • Synolymb Regenerate a limb. 18%
  • You Are Becoming Install a cybernetic implant at a becoming nook. 17%
  • Six Arms None the Richer Have six arms. 17%
  • Dark Tidings Foresee your own death. 15%
  • So Powerful is the Charm of Words Read 100 books. 15%
  • Say No More Contract glotrot. 14%
  • Free Falling Fall to your death. 14%
  • Live and Ink Tattoo yourself. 14%
  • Open Your Mind Have your head explode. 13%
  • Quiet This Metal Speak to the alchemist. 13%
  • Shoot. Get killed by a chute crab. 13%
  • Red Rock Hazing Ritual Be stoned to death by a baboon on the surface of Red Rock. 12%
  • Mumblecore Learn a secret from the microbiome. 12%
  • What Are Directions on a Space That Cannot Be Ordered? Attain 40 psychic glimmer and discover the vast psychic aether. 12%
  • The Comedy Settle the dispute in Bey Lah in Eskhind's favor. 12%
  • Decoding the Signal Travel to the Temple of the Rock and decrypt the mysterious signal. 11%
  • Your Thirst Is Mine, My Water Is Yours Perform the introductory water ritual 100 times. 11%
  • Your Better Half Get killed by your evil twin. 11%
  • Oathbreaker Violate the sacred covenant of the water ritual. 11%
  • Three-Sludge Monte Kill a trisludge. 11%
  • Metal Pedal Contract ironshank. 10%
  • Starry Demise Be crushed under the weight of a thousand suns. 10%
  • Mutagenic Mastery Advance a mutation to level 15. 10%
  • There Can Be Only One Encode the psionic bits of someone's psyche onto the holographic boundary of your own psyche. 9.5%
  • Oops Be killed by a companion on accident. 9.4%
  • The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 1 Violate the Pauli exclusion principle. 9.4%
  • The Sonnet Return the crumpled sheet of paper to its intended recipient or its author. 9.2%
  • The Earl of Omonporch Strike a deal with Asphodel the Lovely for control of the Spindlegrounds. 9.1%
  • Knight Conical Recover Stopsvalinn. 8.8%
  • A Call to Arms Defend Grit Gate from the Putus Templar. 8.7%
  • Tongue in Cheek Cure glotrot via traditional methods. 7.9%
  • The History Settle the dispute in Bey Lah in Hindriarch Keh's favor. 7.7%
  • Eat an Entire Bear Kill a bear and eat it. Just eat an entire bear. 7.7%
  • Psst. Find the oddly-hued glowpad. 7.5%
  • Pax Klanq, I Presume? Deliver a message to the mushroom prodigy. 6.9%
  • Dawnglider Become auroral. 6.6%
  • *gulp* Be swallowed whole. 6.6%
  • Absolute Unit Successfully cook a meal with neutron flux as an ingredient. 6.5%
  • Love Thyself Fall in love with yourself. 6.5%
  • You Recame Rematerialize in the corporeal realm. 6.5%
  • 0 for 2 Die of thirst. 6.4%
  • Star-Eye Esper Attain 100 psychic glimmer. 5.6%
  • The Spirit of Vengeance Recover the Ruin of House Isner. 5.6%
  • Rocket Bear Equip the Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear. 5.5%
  • Hole Like a Head Get decapitated. 5.5%
  • To Thine Own Self Be True Wear your own severed face on your face. 5.5%
  • Tomb of the Eaters Travel to Brightsheol and disable the Spindle's magnetic field. 5.3%
  • A Clammy Reception Enter Mak's clam in the Yd Freehold. 5.3%
  • Aaaaaaaaargh! Overdose on a hulk honey tonic. 5.2%
  • Footloose Cure ironshank via traditional methods. 5.1%
  • Goat Simulator Project your mind into a goat's body. 5.1%
  • The Tragedy Settle the dispute in Bey Lah and doom the village. 4.9%
  • All the Leaves are Grey Contract monochrome. 4.9%
  • Five-Sludge Monte Kill a pentasludge. 4.9%
  • Biographer Learn the complete history of a single sultan. 4.9%
  • Me, Myself, and I Share the map with 10 clones of yourself. 4.6%
  • Donation Level: Kasaphescence Make an offering at the Sacred Well of an artifact worth at least 200 reputation. 4.3%
  • Pyramid Scheme Kill a chrome pyramid. 4.0%
  • Mechanimist Reformer Convince the High Priest of the Stilt to join your party. 4.0%
  • You Became Have a cybernetic implant installed on every implantable body part. 3.8%
  • Aleph Defeat one of the Girsh nephilim. 3.6%
  • The Golem Form large creature. 3.5%
  • Cosmo-Chrononaut Enter 25 spacetime vortices. 3.5%
  • Go on. Do it. Wield the amaranthine prism. 3.5%
  • Glimmer of Truth Attain 20 psychic glimmer as a true kin. 3.3%
  • The Quasar Mind Attain 200 psychic glimmer. 3.2%
  • Was It Something I Said? Invoke the Chaos Spiel. 3.0%
  • Rainbow Reading Cure monochrome via traditional methods. 3.0%
  • Caves of Qud Beat the game. 2.9%
  • Friend to Fungi Host three different fungal infections at once. 2.9%
  • Reclamation Recover the Spindlegrounds from the Putus Templar war party. 2.9%
  • Arconaut Descend 50 strata deep. 2.7%
  • We Are Starfreight Ascend the Spindle. 2.7%
  • Then Help Chavvah complete the ritual of -elsing and sever Tau at Taproot. 2.7%
  • In Contemplation of Eons Perform the water ritual with Oboroqoru, Ape God. 2.7%
  • On the Rocks Drink lava. 2.6%
  • Lottery Winner Gain a mutation from a gamma moth's mutating gaze. 2.6%
  • Cubic and Wisest Human Activate a time cube. 2.5%
  • The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 3 Prove the information paradox by causing your surroundings to glitch. 2.3%
  • Ten-Sludge Monte Kill a decasludge. 2.3%
  • All Those Who Wander Travel to the pocket dimension Tzimtzlum. 2.3%
  • Aetalag Be turned to stone. 2.3%
  • Lair Cake Discover 100 lairs. 2.2%
  • The Woe of Apes Kill Oboroqoru, Ape God. 2.0%
  • The Recitation of the Drowning of Eudoxia by the Witches of Moonhearth Wear the Otherpearl. 2.0%
  • Gemini Wield Caslainard and Polluxus. 2.0%
  • Sultan of Salt Invent 100 recipes. 1.9%
  • Bet Defeat two of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough. 1.9%
  • You Are What You Eat Eat one of your own limbs. 1.9%
  • Get in the Robot Infiltrate a temple mecha. 1.9%
  • Belong, Friends Help the slynth find a new home. 1.9%
  • Swollen Bulb Consume 10 drams of sunslag in a single playthrough. 1.9%
  • The Psychal Chorus Drink 20 drams of brain brine. 1.7%
  • Total Makeover Pour a dram of pure warm static on yourself. 1.7%
  • The Woe of Joppa Become hated by the villagers of Joppa. 1.7%
  • Peekaboo Become loved by newly sentient beings. 1.7%
  • Close the Loop Recover Kindrish. 1.7%
  • Love at First Sign Fall in love with a sign. 1.6%
  • Surprise! Eat the Cloaca Surprise. 1.4%
  • Gimel Defeat three of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough. 1.4%
  • On Second Thought Eat a serving of humble pie. 1.3%
  • Seraphic Heresy Spurn Resheph and return to Qud. 1.3%
  • Feast Upon the Goat Hearts! *cheers* Perform the water ritual with Mamon Souldrinker. 1.3%
  • Dalet Defeat four of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough. 1.2%
  • tsk tsk Disappoint a highly entropic being. 1.2%
  • The Dusted Cosmos Leave the solar system on a starship. 1.2%
  • He Defeat five of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough. 1.2%
  • Clonal Colony Share the map with 30 clones of yourself. 1.0%
  • Two Cats Are Better Than One Clone Ctesiphus. 1.0%
  • From Thyn Heres Shaken the Wet and Olde Lif Cross into Brightsheol. 1.0%
  • Seraphic Covenant Enter into a covenant with Resheph and help prepare Qud for the Coven's return. 1.0%
  • Bricks Can Be Thrown, Too Kill Aoyg-No-Longer. 1.0%
  • Else Help Chavvah complete the ritual of -elsing and sever Tau at Taproot. 1.0%
  • Vav Defeat six of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough. 1.0%
  • Tourist Visit 100 generated villages. 0.9%
  • Jeweled Dusk Be transmuted into a gemstone. 0.9%
  • Ungyre Annul the plagues of the Gyre. 0.9%
  • My Many Facets Eat the Crystal Delight. 0.7%
  • Non-Locally Sourced Cook a meal with an extradimensional limb as an ingredient. 0.7%
  • Dayenu Give the repulsive device to all four children of the Tomb. 0.7%
  • Zayin Defeat all seven of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough. 0.7%
  • The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 2 Exploit wave-particle duality to clone yourself. 0.6%
  • Become as Gods Bestow life to 20 inanimate objects. 0.6%
  • Token of Gratitude Be gifted a 10-pointed asterisk. 0.6%
  • Leap, Frog. Convince a frog to teach you how to jump. 0.6%
  • The Narrowing Sky Wear each of the six Faces of the sultanate. 0.6%
  • Byevalve Enter 100 giant clams. 0.4%
  • The Tillage of the Noosphere Accede to Resheph's plan for purging the world of higher life. 0.4%
  • Delight in the Abundance of Peace Pacify all seven of the Girsh nephilim in a single playthrough. 0.4%
  • I- Wink out of existence. 0.4%
  • Dream within a Dream Enter a waking dream from within a waking dream. 0.3%
  • Heat Death Get vaporized. 0.3%
  • Wander Darkling in the Eternal Space Lose your will to live. 0.3%
  • Imagine a Rubber Sheet Dash yourself on the crags of spacetime. 0.1%
  • Klanq Puff at Sun Spread Klanq in space. 0.1%
  • Sound Sleeper Wake peacefully from twenty dreams. 0.1%
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