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This open-world adventure RPG features procedural generation and turn-based combat. Released in 2024 by Freehold Games and published by Kitfox Games, it boasts 12,326 Steam reviews with 95% positive sentiment.
Overview
Caves of Qud is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Freehold Games and published by Kitfox Games. On Steam it has gathered 12,355 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Freehold Games with publisher Kitfox Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 556,000 to 1.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Caves of Qud can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
12,355
Positive
95%
Steam appid
333640
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0556K to 1.3M
units (median: 927K)
≈ $9.5M to $22.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Caves of Qud at roughly 556,000 to 1.3 million copies, with a median around 927,000, derived from its 12,355 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $15.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $16.65Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $16.65 to $29.99, averaging $28.49 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $16.65 on 2026-04-01.
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Procedural GenerationTurn-Based CombatOpen WorldTurn-BasedTranshumanismSci-fiReplay ValueTraditional RoguelikeRogue-likeStory RichRPGCharacter CustomizationSurvivalPixel GraphicsAtmosphericCRPGDifficultModdableSingleplayerChoices Matter
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Caves of Qud sold?
- indielist estimates Caves of Qud has sold between 555,975 and 1,297,275 units (median 926,625), derived from its 12,355 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Caves of Qud?
- Caves of Qud was developed by Freehold Games and published by Kitfox Games.
- When was Caves of Qud released?
- Caves of Qud was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Caves of Qud have on Steam?
- Caves of Qud has 12,355 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Caves of Qud within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Freehold Games's other releases and Kitfox Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Caves of Qud sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Caves of Qud page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.