To give you some context: Caves of Qud is set in a post-apocalyptic land called Qud, it belonging to a terrible future vision of Earth in which most of our technological advances have been lost. It's a jungle-like area that is bordered by a salt desert and large mountain ranges. Mostly, it's a terrible place to be, and a worse place to live, yet there are those that do. People also travel to Qud in their droves as, inside its ancient caverns and temples, can be found valuable lost technology. There is also an ancient evil arising from these caverns but we don't have to be concerned with that right now.
In the game, the land of Qud is represented from a top-down perspective, and while it doesn't adopt the basic ASCII-style of many roguelikes, its limited graphics feel like a throwback to it. The point being that when you're looking at the screen you can't immediately read everything that is on it unless you recognize the symbols and know what they represent. Another salient point is that when moving across the land, you do so a screen at a time, which gives you four different directions to travel in, and each screen you travel into is procedurally generated as you enter.
