Caves of Qud

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Caves of Qud

Developers
	Freehold Games
Engines
	Unity 2018
Release dates
Windows	Early access
macOS (OS X)	Early access
Linux	Early access

General information

Official website

Official wiki

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website		Humble Bundle Widget
GOG.com
itch.io
Steam

An extended demo is available from the developers.

Game data

Launcher video settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Freehold Games\CavesOfQud\PlayerOptions.json
macOS (OS X)
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Freehold Games\CavesOfQud\Saves\
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/com.FreeholdGames.CavesOfQud
Linux	~/.config/unity3d/Freehold Games/CavesOfQud

This location can be changed using the in-game command -savepath

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Display options (from General Settings).

Performance settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Letterboxed 21:9.
Multi-monitor		Pillarboxed 21:9. At 16:3, some minor elements have Vert- Scaling.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Unity Engine borderless windowed mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

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  Overlay (UI) settings.

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  Prompt settings.

Input settings

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Via launcher or in-game.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Uses Windows sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus		Use Enable Overlay User Interface Elements under Overlay UI settings to enable menu mouse input.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings

Audio options (from General Settings).

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Sound Effects, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9, 11
Shader Model support	3.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7 SP1
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz, SSE2 instruction set support
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9 compatible Shader model 3.0 support	DirectX 11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.11
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz, SSE2 instruction set support
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL 3 compatible DirectX 9 compatible Shader model 3.0 support	DirectX 11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities compatible

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 12.04
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz, SSE2 instruction set support
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL 3 compatible DirectX 9 compatible Shader model 3.0 support	DirectX 11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities compatible