Dwarf Fortress

94% positive of 29,367 Steam reviews

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2022
Steam Deck: Playable
Known on: Steam

Made by Bay 12 Games. Published by Kitfox Games.

About the game

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

What sets it apart

Dwarves
Colony Sim
City Builder
Base Building
Management
Building
Sandbox
Survival
Strategy
Simulation
Roguelike
Resource Management

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Dwarf Fortress

94% positive of 29,367 Steam reviews

See it on Steam

Main story: Unknown
Everything: Unknown
Released: 2022
Steam Deck: Playable
Known on: Steam

Made by Bay 12 Games. Published by Kitfox Games.

About the game

What sets it apart

Dwarves
Colony Sim
City Builder
Base Building
Management
Building
Sandbox
Survival
Strategy
Simulation
Roguelike
Resource Management

What players say

Recommended
The granddaddy of base builders, too caught up in its hyperfixation on particular simulations to worry about petty concerns like playability or ease of entry. It's weird, it's horribly balanced, and it's infinitely satisfying when your dwarven megaproject comes together and you bathe your enemies in a sea of molten vengeance. Strike the earth.
282 h played when written. 15 found it helpful.
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Recommended
I played this game nearly a decade ago when it was in ASCII and have played it inbetween over time. Assuming you like creativity, problem solving and world building this is the best game ever made. The community, the game itself and developer come from an era when the internet was a better place, it seems that it has persisteted all these years.
41 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Nice base structure, and nice stead updates, but core problem always remains, this game doesnt make good use of multi threads CPU and even with a monster machine still ends up beeing able to lagout almost every game at one point, you will spend hours on building this nice system only to end up on unavoidable stalls such as 98% of dwarvs not worrking, sleeping or eatin, simply stuck there no jobs while you have 1500x…
878 h played when written. 18 found it helpful.
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