Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress (2022)

by Bay 12 Games, Kitfox Games
Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Indie, Simulator
Themes:Open world, Fantasy, 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), Sandbox, Survival
Game modes:Single player
Story: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 skills, body parts, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, pain, nausea, various poison effects, and much more. It’s difficult to convey the depth of the generation. Hundreds of animals and monsters, many of which are randomly created for each world, as well as generated poetry, musical forms, instruments, and dances for your dwarves to practice and perform. A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity, and air masses to create fronts, clouds, storms, and blizzards. Over two hundred rock and mineral types can appear, in their proper geological environments.Show more
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user avatar@anarion321user avatar@anarion321
January 29, 2025
It's a crime this game is not on GoG, don't understand the reason since it's DRM free and it's in other places. A really good old game that inspired the birth of many others, like Rimworld or even Minecraft I think. I've been a supporter for years, donating when the game was only free, I keep donating but I also bought the new version with improved UI and would love to have it in GoG also. You can spent hundreds of hours and never get bored, you even start to see it's magic, how it really seems like the dwarves have personalities and intent that justifies their decisions....it's quite the feat. It still needs some improvements and content is lacking in some deeper aspects, like law or crime investigation, but you will surely can count on the devs to keep at it for another 20 years of improvements.
user avatar@Rhobartuser avatar@Rhobart
January 29, 2025
I cannot wrap my head why this is not on GoG. Absolute gem of a game. It might be too overhelming for some but I love it and spend hundereds of hours with it. I would love byuing it here.
user avatar@wpfoutsuser avatar@wpfouts
January 30, 2025
I bought this game day one on Steam, and have backed it's Patreon for years. When this comes to GOG I'll buy it again. I have spent a LOT of time and money on this game that could be gotten for free, and I hope to spend more when it comes out here!
user avatar@dnovraDuser avatar@dnovraD
January 31, 2025
This was one of the grandfathers of a genre, and a revitalization to several others. It's by and large a game not about management, minuta, nor perfection, but about the stories that people share of it. Say you're settling in, and some beast comes by; success or failure, you'll have something to tell everyone else! A fine game, where even the legends it speaks within itself are volumes!
Of all the stories I've heard that happens in Dwarf Fortress, the way it was developed and who developed it, and the way is looked like a F8cked up spreedsheet you could get away with with a computer illiterate of a boss in the workplace. It seemed like the type of game that should be on GoG, given how old the game looks and fits the part of an daimond among gems for what it is. I would purchase this game in a heartbeat if it was GoG the second it was released the glorious platform that preserve such games like this.
user avatar@ziddersuser avatar@zidders
April 05, 2025
Dwarf Fortress was created by two devs who really care about games, and about the gaming community. They've put a ton of love into this game, and both they and the people at Kitfox deserve a ton of love and success. It's a great game made by great people, and should be on every platform possible.
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