Caves of Qud

Fantastic and fun game

Extremely addicting

This is an amazing game. I could write multiple articles on why I find the game so fascinating, talk about how the minimalistc art style is not only beautiful but will also initiate your own imagination like otherwise only books will do, I could write about SO many unique and memorable experiences I made during playing the game for not even 200 hours (there will be many more in my life). I will however just copy one reddit thread I posted some years ago. In this post I talk about how the game visualizes the confusion effect the player might get from an enemy. (Basically the whole screen and almost every written word gets scrambled up, nothing makes sense any more visually. You can still do almost everything but you have to REMEMBER where you were and where e.g. your enemies where, which is very hard, so more likely you will just stumble around...) Here is the post that imo speaks of my love for the game itself: What I love most about the confusion mechanic though is the fact that not the world is confused but your mind is. When you try to breathe for a second, calm down, and try to remember where your enemy has just been, where that saving flight of stairs has been – you CAN attack it, you CAN reach it. But most likely you will frantically slash the air, and run into a wall a couple of times. One has to imagine this battle from the outside. It's hillarious, it's such a great initial of phantasy and role play, and I am fairly sure it can only work this way with a game that leaves a lot of the visualization to the imagination of the player. Yesterday I was searching around in the unterground beneath some historic site which was swarmed by not only goat folk but also disciples. I was having a pretty hard time because this is my first real classic run and my pulse was going hard. I nevertheless wanted to stress my luck, and went one strata deeper. When I came down the stairs I was instantly circled by 5 or 6 disciples, and for some reason I was pushed away from the stairs. I tried but couldn't make it up again, and in this scenario not only my character but also myself were really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ confused. I tried to find the stairs but while staggering around the room in cold sweat I couldn't attack the disciples which where slowly damaging me. There was one of them, I guess, that did a whole lot more damage then the others, must have been their leader. I was already severly injured and injected some salve into my arm which managed to save me for a second and let me regrow my hope to reach the stairs in time. That's when I felt a weird tingle in my limbs. I was being teleported and suddenly found myself in a much smaller room with all the disciples sourrounding me again. I did not understand how I got there or who teleported me but my hope was gone, I made peace with the idea of dying under the fanatic eyes and hands of the disturbed disciples. However I didn't want to give up and in the brief moments of a clear mind, I again shot up some salve and thought about a way to survive. While everything in front of me was spinning I rummaged around my bagpack, couldn't make anything of all the shiny objects but suddenly found something that looked... blue... It was heavy, I could hold it in my hand... It must have been a freeze grenade. In my unexperienced and amateur kind of mind, a freeze grenade was the perfect strategy to get out alive of this situation. I chaotically threw it in the direction I vaguely imagined my enemies to be and I froze 3 or 4 of the degenerated. This was the beginning of my big escape, and very slowly, tile by tile, with a brain in my head that operated like scramble eggs, I fought my way back to the stairs, back up. I barely survived this trip, which was a trip in every sense of the word. Note: I didn't know about yuckwheat at this time yesterday, and I also didn't use sphynx salt. I just read about these things on the wiki now lol. I will probably go about this situation differently the next time, but this is another thing about CoQ that I love. You can have tons of different ways to approach a situation. The best way will lilkely be described in the wiki but won't come to your mind on it's own. But trying out all the other ways under the imminent threat of dying is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun.