Early Access release: December 9th 2026 (desktop only)
Diaspora full release: ???
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Developer: Freehold
Website: cavesofqud.com
Creators:
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📧 Contacts: General/Business: i[email protected]
Diaspora is the first Caves of Qud expansion. It includes several new features arcs centered around the influx of riotous life and culture into marsh-moated ruins of Qud. Over the course of its Early Access development, we'll be evolving the initial release into a full-featured expansion with new systems, quests, mutations, creatures, items, and more.
Along with the Mutated Human and True Kin genotypes, you can now play as a Mutated Animal or Mutated Plant. Choose from one of several animal and plant stocks and customize your character as before. Play as a dog, cat, goat, chameleon, spider, jelly, flower, vine, tree, etc…
Play as one of the denizens of the Great Rondures on the Ocean of Iber — Propeller, Starsteer, Man of Kelp, or Delphine.
Choose from a host of new animal and plant mutations to outfit your character. Create an even more protean Mutated Human than before, or upgrade your animal's Species Traits with new animal mutations. Claws, Muzzle, Tail, etc. Take your animal's Tail and mutate it into a Prehensile Tail!
From across Moghra'yi, a great host of new creatures have migrated to the surface and subterranean habitats of Qud. And along with them, hauled inside the dromad freight chests, artifacts of disparate cultures begin to speckle the great layer cake anew.
Wield many kinds of spears and attack your enemies from two tiles away!
Dromad trade caravans have received a big makeover. Mount the saltback and treat with the dromads on their motile shell-bazaars.
Road and river networks use a much more sophisticated set of worldbuilding algorithms to snake their way through Qud. Follow a road and there's a good chance you'll arrive at an interesting location.
Over the course of Diaspora's Early Access development we'll be adding many, many more features, including: