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…
Dwarf Fortress is an indie developed by Bay 12 Games, released 6 December 2022 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dwarf Fortress is
Dwarf Fortress is an indie game developed by Bay 12 Games and released in 2022. It was published by Kitfox Games. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on OpenGL.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), fantasy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Dwarf Fortress holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Dwarf Fortress launched on 6 December 2022, within three weeks of Pentiment, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes and World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Pentiment, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dwarf Fortress yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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