Construction and management simulation, roguelike, survival
Mode(s)
Single-player
Dwarf Fortress (previously titled Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games. Available as freeware and in development since 2002, its first alpha version was released in 2006 and received attention for being a two-member project surviving solely on donations.
Originally displayed using ASCII graphics, the game is set in a detailed, procedurally generated fantasy world with randomized creatures, NPCs, and history. Players can control a colony of dwarves in a fortress or explore the world as a player character. Its mechanics have been lauded for their depth and complexity.
Prior to Dwarf Fortress, Tarn Adams was working on a project called Slaves to Armok: God of Blood which was a role-playing game. By 2004, Adams decided to shift from the original Armok to Dwarf Fortress after the former became difficult to maintain. Adams calls it his life's work and said in 2011 that version 1.0 will not be ready for at least another 20 years, and even after that he would continue to work on it. A paid edition with graphical tiles and a new soundtrack was published by Kitfox Games and released to Steam and Itch.io in 2022.
Critics praised its complex and emergent gameplay but had mixed reactions to its difficulty. The game influenced Minecraft, RimWorld, and others, and was selected among other games to be featured in the Museum of Modern Art to show the history of video gaming in 2012. The game has a cult following and an active online community. As there are no win conditions, every fortress, no matter how successful, will eventually fall; this has prompted the community motto: "Losing is Fun!"
DwarfFortress (previously titled Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: DwarfFortress) is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie...
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is an American computer game programmer, best known for his work on DwarfFortress. He has been working on the game since 2002 together with his older...
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Sultans. It takes inspiration from the history systems of the games DwarfFortress and Epitaph. Instead of having historical events being generated without...
Bay 12 Games to be its publisher for the Steam and itch.io version of DwarfFortress. According to a frequently asked questions post, Kitfox Games would...
These include games such as the Diablo series, ToeJam & Earl, and DwarfFortress, the latter which retains the classic ASCII art-approach to gameplay...
Fenlon, Wes (31 March 2016). "DwarfFortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence". pcgamer.com. "DwarfFortress will crush your CPU because...
gameplay and sheer weight of simulated content, like in Minecraft, DwarfFortress or Space Station 13. These games do not have any endgame criteria though...
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Games on April 8, 2011. FortressCraft cites Minecraft, Infiniminer and DwarfFortress as direct inspirations for the design aspect of the game. The game utilizes...
Archived from the original on 2015-09-08. Hall, Charlie (2014-08-06). "DwarfFortress is changing how the MOMA preserves art". Polygon. Archived from the...
as freeware, most notably with Spelunky on its original release and DwarfFortress with exception of its enhanced visual front-end version while its base...
the niche market. Notable titles include DwarfFortress, Rimworld (which takes inspiration from DwarfFortress), Oxygen Not Included, Frostpunk, and Surviving...
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free updates instead. Klei's Johann Seidenz said that games such as DwarfFortress, Prison Architect, and The Sims influenced the design of Oxygen Not...
games (e.g. Rogue and NetHack) and those imitating their style (e.g. DwarfFortress) use a monospaced grid of characters to render their state for the player...
three dimensional base-building game like RollerCoaster Tycoon and DwarfFortress. While working on RubyDung, Persson experimented with a first-person...
art museum curator and television host DwarfFortress, a video game in which Urist is considered a generic Dwarf name. This page lists people with the...
heavily influenced by the X-COM series as well as other games such as DwarfFortress and Minecraft. It blends realtime strategy combat with world exploration...
amount of water coverage in a world. Examples of such games include DwarfFortress, Minecraft, and Vintage Story. Procedural generation is also used in...
reviews on Metacritic. Comparing Wartales to games like Rimworld and DwarfFortress, Rock Paper Shotgun praised its emergent gameplay and ability to create...
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