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Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world.
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- Developer
- Bay 12 Games
- Genres
- Survival · Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Indie · Open world
- Publisher
- Bay 12 Games
- Platforms
- PC
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Dwarf Fortress Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Dwarf Fortress is, initially, a little daunting. Not because it’s inaccessible, but because you just know that it’s going to turn into a real time-sink. Is it the prettiest game around? No, but it’s wonderfully, ridiculously deep and a sheer joy to play. If you’re prepared to put the time in, Dwarf Fortress will drag you into its depths and you won’t regret it for one second.
Dwarf Fortress is a magnum opus, in development for 20 years by two brothers. It is not fully developed yet. What I've tried is an expansive, almost unnecessarily deep simulation of city-building in a world filled with magic, mead, angry dwarves, heroes and monsters. It even manages to make losing fun. Dwarf Fortress aims to simulate all aspects of life, and for the most part it succeeds fantastically at this. Despite a significantly (officially) improved user interface, it can get a little too menu-heavy. The game's user interface and signalling of important information to you could also be i...
Dwarf Fortress is one of the most incredibly complex games to ever be released, with Bay 12 Games showing no sign of slowing down in the coming years. While the complicated menus and steep learning curve might be too much for some people, this game will be exactly what most colony management fans have always been looking for.
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.
If you've never played Dwarf Fortress, then this is a great 20-dollar game with the potential for future updates and a wide array of mods. The community for mod-making is already there, so you're buying into a game that should be very well supported from the very beginning. If you already like Dwarf Fortress, your mileage may vary.