The Lion's Rear

Caves of Qud

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Caves of Qud is my 2025 Game of the Year. It is an incredibly crunchy and difficult procedurally generated roguelike game with a really great narrative and a gripping beautiful world sandbox to play in.

Check out my roleplay log The Journal of Irushum, Nomad .

Run Caves of Qud on NixOS

This uses wrapWine . I download my Qud build from Itch.io but I might switch to Steam now that it supports cloud saves and workshop... [2025-01-08 Wed] I have been doing this; install Salt Shuffle Revival, Nomadism, and travel the world as a pokemon trainer, but its the pokemon trading card game and you're in hell.

nix source: :tangle ~/arroyo-nix/pkgs/qud.nix
{ pkgs, stdenv, lib }: let wrapWine = (pkgs.callPackage ../lib/wrapWine.nix {}); in wrapWine { name = "cavesofqud"; executable = "$HOME/sync/cavesofqud-windows-default/CoQ.exe"; chdir = "$HOME/sync/cavesofqud-windows-default/"; # tricks = [ "vcrun2010" ]; }

This is installed through Arroyo Home Manager :

nix source: :tangle ~/arroyo-nix/hm/qud.nix
{ pkgs, ... }: { home.packages = [ (pkgs.callPackage ../pkgs/qud.nix {}) ]; }