Best Roguelike 2024: Caves of Qud

Our favourite roguelike of the year was deeply strange and absurdly deep. It's the impossibly inventive retrofuturist fantasy Caves of Qud. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub.

Lincoln Carpenter, News Writer: There is too much to say about Caves of Qud, but it never quite feels like I've said enough.

It's a roguelike's roguelike: A science-fantasy wasteland populated by a rich gnarl of combat systems and procedural world-state simulations that have no qualms about leveraging their brutality against you.