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Caves of Qud Vinyl Bundle
What's Included?
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LIC exclusive EDITIONS release of Caves of Qud
Limited to 1,500 copies (Switch 2)
Includes everything from the LIC Retail+ version, as well as:
A custom mailer box with original illustrations
Essay and developer interview booklet
EDITIONS exclusive variant coversheet art
Original outer slipcase artwork
Colour-thematic inner slipcase with release number
Fold-out unique artwork poster
4 art cards chosen by the developer with captions
Developer’s authenticity card (individually numbered & digitally signed)
Artwork by Sajan Rai (slipcase, cover), Raquel Meyers (poster, sticker)
Shipping estimated Q1 2027 / Q2 2027
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Lost In Cult Records Presents, Caves of Qud by Kitfox Games & Stumpy Frog Records.
Caves of Qud encompasses universes and lifetimes. A simulation of worlds not yet in being, events not yet fathomed, and actions not yet imagined. This is the music of those lives.
Do anything and everything in Freehold Games’ Hugo Award-winning roguelike, giving you the vast tools to create a character ready to brave a retrofuturistic world. Or, more likely, die embarrassingly to something bizarre. With its minimalist graphics, the project has become unconstrained by the usual parameters of game design, leading to an epic journey nearly 20 years in the making. Come climb inside the layer cake of its history and experience it yourself.
Stumpy Frog Records now presses to wax the sounds of infinite possibility, in collaboration with Kitfox Games and distributed exclusively through Lost In Cult Records. An expansive tracklist spanning 3LP, composed and selected by Craigory Hamilton and mixed by audio engineer Ohad Nissim. This release’s triple gatefold is adorned with newly commissioned art by Filip Ugrin aka Saint Vulture.
Joining our vinyl soundtrack release, we’ve partnered with Kitfox Games and developer Freehold Games once again to bring this Hugo Award-winning roguelike a full physical celebration on the Nintendo Switch 2. An epic journey nearly 20 years in the making, this science-fantasy epic features unbelievably deep lore, steeped in retrofuturism, sentient plants, and a fully-simulated world presented in a minimalistic style.
Our sixth Nintendo Switch 2 physical release, Caves of Qud includes all content on the cartridge with the latest content and patches (up to time of print), tested by archivist group DoesItPlay?.
This prestigious, limited EDITIONS release, complete with a host of artful extras, is ideal for building a library of carefully-curated video games. Limited to 1,500 copies, it is available for collectors while stock lasts. Or, pick up our standard Retail+ version, complete with exclusive pre-order bonus extras.
Built on the core pillars of prestige, quality, preservation, and curation - each EDITIONS release is a work of art, designed to be part of a uniform, consistent, premium quality collection that you can trust. We’ve applied our award-winning design work and our highly curative approach to the games selected to be a part of EDITIONS, with every artful title pushing the medium of gaming forward, presented in the prestigious way they deserve to be celebrated in.
With each limited print EDITIONS game, you’ll find a lovingly crafted package for either PS5, Switch, Xbox, and Switch 2, depending on the title — a tested, preservation-guaranteed physical copy of the game featuring original artwork, with stunning illustrations created especially for our slipcase covers, posters, and more, as well as an essay booklet analysing the story, impact, and history behind the game.
Caves of Qud is a Hugo Award-winning science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit a living, breathing world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth?
Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world that lets you do anything and everything. Don’t like the wall blocking your way? Dig through it with a pickaxe, or eat through it with your corrosive gas mutation, or melt it to lava.
Every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player, with levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. Pursue allegiances with over 70 factions: apes, crabs, trees, robots, and highly entropic beings, just to name a few.
Over fifteen years of worldbuilding have led to a rich, weird, labyrinthine, one-of-a-kind storyworld, layered on top of the simulation, all for you to explore.
Turn-based, sandbox exploration and combat offers as many solutions as you and your mutations, implants, artifacts, and skills are creative enough to invent. Quests, NPCs, villages, historic sites; some dynamic and some handwritten, interwoven to produce a transportative RPG experience.
Play the role of a mutant indigenous to the salt-spangled dunes and jungles of Qud, or play a true kin descendant from one of the few remaining eco-domes — the toxic arboreta of Ekuemekiyye, the ice-sheathed arcology of Ibul, or the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon. Utilise one of the most expressive character creators ever to build your character out of over 70 mutations, dozens of cybernetic implants, 24 castes and kits from across the social order of Qud and beyond, or choose a preset to start your adventure right away.
Play like other traditional roguelikes with permadeath, like an RPG with save points and checkpoints, focus on exploration with most creatures not attacking you, or a survival mode with a fixed character and world seed - play it completely your way.
Caves of Qud is a project of epic proportions that's been in development for over fifteen years, since 2007. It began as the science fantasy roguelike dream of co-creators Jason Grinblat and Brian Bucklew, who released the first beta in 2010. Since then, it's accrued a few more contributors who have enriched the project by helping to add visual effects, sound effects, an original soundtrack, a new UI, new game systems, new lore, and half a world of content. Caves of Qud has grown into a wild garden of emergent narrative, where a handwritten story weaves a path through rich physical, social, and historical simulations. The result is a hybrid handcrafted and procedurally-generated world that's alive in a way few games are.
