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 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:tangle ~/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:tangle ~/nix/hm/qud.nix

{ pkgs, ... }:

{
  home.packages = [ (pkgs.callPackage ../pkgs/qud.nix {}) ];
}