History VideoGame / CavesOfQud

* ChainLightning: Electric melee weapons produce electric discharge when they hit enemies, and the said electric discharge can harm nearby enemies too.

* ContractualBossImmunity: Averted; every boss in the game is vulnerable to the Decapitation skill which provides a very low chance of instant death on hit (and a higher chance when using the Dismember skill). Of course, it doesn't matter for creatures with multiple heads or that don't need a head to survive.

* {{Autocannibalism}}: When you get dismembered by enemy attacks, you can choose to eat your own severed limb. If you have the Dismember ability, you can intentionally dismember yourself with your axe for eating your own limbs!

* ProtectThisHouse: Around the midpoint of the main quest line, you are tasked with defending [[spoiler:Grit Gate]] from [[spoiler:a Putus Templar assault]]. You have a limited window to decide how to allocate power to the settlement's various defenses, and your victory reward will depend on how much destrution the bad guys manage to cause (both infrastructure and casualties) before you defeat them all.

* PsychicPowers: Mutations! Clairvoyance, {{telepathy}}, precognition, {{psychometry}}, domination, sunder mind...

** Argyve of Joppa is fond of handing these out. Becoming his apprentice involves finding him two separate artifacts, and then 200 feet worth of copper wire.

* ForceField: One of the more powerful mutations, and practically a must if you've sunk all your points into being a mutation-heavy esper.

* FollowTheMoney: Not ''money'', exactly, but those 200 feet of copper wire that Argyve wants are just laying on the ground of the Rust Wells, and if you're particularly unlucky, you might end up collecting some of it 1 foot at a time.
* FriendlyFire: Ranged weapons will damage anything the projectile or explosion hits. One way tinkers die is building turrets that shoot through them to the enemies.
** One of the encounters in Bethesda Susa is a single cannibal with a rocket launcher, fought in a room with several sleeping super-bosses. If one is woken up with splash damage it's usually game over for the player.

* {{Mutants}}: Of the second variety.

* DungeonBypass: Golgotha is normally a maze full of deathtraps, slime, and absurd quantities of [[TheSwarm vent crabs]]. However, breaching the bunker on the surface lets you access an elevator shaft that leads directly to the bottom floor. Surviving the fall is another story, but possible with a Rubbergum Injector and over 100 hit points.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: When you dismember limbs from creatures, the dismembered body parts often have duplicated adjectives, like "bloody bloody bear's tail".

** Though, considering the {{FutureImperfect}} nature of [[spoiler: the engravings made based upon ''your'' memories]], the actual extremity of the sultans may not be as clear as it seems.

* CoolKey: One category of artifact are the colored key cards that can unlock doors of the same color. Unfortunately for looters, keycards of ''any'' color tend to be rare and expensive as artifacts go. The {{psychometry}} mutation bypasses the need for these Keycards, as you simply use your biological item scan to help the door "Remember" its passcode.

* BeneathTheEarth: The titular Caves of Qud are host to astounding treasures and terrors. Non-story dungeons allow you to descend until you hit lava floes, and you can cross the game world entirely underground if you wanted to.

The game is still in active development, has been released available on Steam Early Access in 2015, which can be played [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/ here.]] The {{Wiki|Rule}} is [[https://cavesofqud.gamepedia.com/Caves_of_Qud_Wiki here]].

* DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment: When you dismember limbs from creatures, the dismembered body parts often have duplicated adjectives, like "bloody bloody bear's tail".

* MessianicArchetype: Resheph, the last Sultan of Qud. When the Gyre unleashed its plagues upon Qud, he healed the sick, and when the Girsh Nephilim attacked, Resheph fought them off. LLearning that the plagues were caused by "the misdeeds of the elder saads and sultans", he dissolved the sultanate, and closed the gates to the Tomb of the Eaters, thus finally freeing Qud from its curse. When Rebekah, the woman who betrayed him by stealing the Mark of Death, died of glotrot, Resheph forgave her, and though the Tomb of the Eaters was closed, he allowed her to be buried in the Spindle's shadow at Omonporch.

The game is still in active development, has been released available on Steam Early Access in 2015, which can be played [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/ here.]] The {{Wiki|Rule}} is [[https://cavesofqud.gamepedia.com/Caves_of_Qud_Wiki here]]. [[WebVideo/SsethTzeentach SSeth]] has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_PBfLbd3zw made a video]] on the game if you want to see how crazy this game can sometimes get.

* CommonplaceRare:
** A Taco Suprema is an ungodly valuable item, with prices far beyond most legendary high-tech artifacts from lost civilizations.

* Cyberspace: Referred to as the "Thin World", to contrast with the "Thick World", a.k.a. reality.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Cherubs are [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Ridiculously Human Robots]] that are designed in the image of various factions: ironically, this does not include humans, but ''does'' include robots themselves. Evidently, as time progressed, the means to make such advanced robots was lost, and were forced to make {{ClockPunk}} mechanical cherubs in their place, which, while still excellent, were clearly identifiable as being, well, mechanical.]]
** [[spoiler: According to Rainwater Shomer, [[ArtificialAfterlife Brightsheol]] is in fact a dream that is had by a "seraph" that lives in a city atop the Spindle: it can be presumed that such a being is an even more advanced and powerful version of the earlier cherubs.]]

* BazaarOfTheBizarre: The Six Day Stilt, being a holy site for Qud's most prominent religion, is surrounded by tents and merchants of all shapes and sizes. It's the largest collection of shops in the game, and the only place guaranteed to sell a Spray Bottle, an artifact essential for curing fungal infections. The inhabitants are varied as well, including things like [[RockMonster Bouldermensch]] and [[WallMaster Mimics]] as pilgrims looking to pray and trade.

** You can build a ][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube timecube]], a ridiculously expensive one-use [[TimeStandsStill Time Stop]]; the activation message and the achievement for using it ("Cubic and Wisest Human") are taken from the old Time Cube website.

** You can build a ][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube timecube]], a ridiculously expensive one-use [[TimeStandsStill Time Stop]]; the description is taken from the old Time Cube website.

** The description for the hologram bracelet is a shout out to ''[[Film/TotalRecall1990 Total Recall]]'', and you can also build a timecube, a ridiculously expensive one-use [[TimeStandsStill Time Stop]].