Image credit: Freehold Games

Caves of Qud is a game well liked over here at RPS; Brendan gave it the coveted Bestest Bests badge back when it launched into 1.0 a couple of years ago, and all! It's a game I still want to reckon with more deeply, and perhaps with the reveal of its first expansion I'll be more enticed to. It's called Diaspora, and its biggest feature is probably the fact that you'll be able to play as plants and animals. Interestingly, much like the base game before it, developer Freehold Games will also be releasing Diaspora into early access, a unique step to take for a bit of DLC.

"Caves of Qud is an extremely complicated game with many interlocking systems & features and lots of unpredictable, emergent gameplay," a blog post explains as to why the expansion will be released in early access. "Diaspora will add a whole new layer to that.…