5 reviews
Dwarf Fortress
In this complex construction/management/roguelike simulation, every generated world brings a unique challenge, whether it’s dwarves with their own simulated personalities or aquifers. Observe what makes your civilization fall into eventual decline, and learn for next time… until something else inevitably goes wrong. The combat model includes skill...
Details
- Released
- December 5, 2022
- Developer
- Bay 12 Games
- Genres
- Survival · Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy · Indie · Open world
- Publisher
- Kitfox Games
- Platforms
- PC
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If you’re completely new, there are three modes: fortress, the one I’ve been ranting about; Adventure: basically that 500 year old world? you get to play an RPG in it. This wasn’t in the build I played; and then Legends: You can literally poke around historical events, sites, regions, everything it generated from a godlike perspective rather than having to explore everything yourself or build a fort with a bunch of deranged idiots.
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Dwarf Fortress is an incredible game that highlights the best of what the colony-simulator genre is capable of. On the Steam Deck, it runs near perfectly and can be very enjoyable, but some UI and text resizing would be helpful. A community controller layout will be needed for optimal play as well.