Dwarf Fortress

For years I always wanted to play this, but it seemed too intimidating to start with the ASCII art and UI.

Now that its on steam, its far easier to pick up. The graphics look so much better than before.

It's a blast! Just be careful digging too deep. ;)

Bu türe sonunda ucundan bir giriş yaptım diyebilirim. Oyunun daha sadece ilk kısımlarını görmeme rağmen oyunun özellikle ilerleyiş hızı çok güzel. Her zaman uğraşabileceğiniz bir şey olsada oyun her zaman aciliyet hissettirmiyor, hatta çoğu zaman sakin diyebilirim. Bir kısım dinçliğin ardından gelen tansiyonun yüksek olduğu kısımların insanda yarattığı, tam kıvamında oturmuş diyebileceğim bir moda sokuyor. Sakin zamanlarda cücelerin duygu düşüncelerine bakarken acil durumalarda ise koloninin sıkıntıları ile uğraşıyorsunuz. Oyunun derinliğide büyük ihtimal daha fazla vakit geçirmeye elverişli kılıyordur. Kısacası temel oyun döngüsünü çok güzel oturtmuşlar, zaten temel oyun döngüsü güzel olduktan sonra her oyun oynanır. Derinliğinide güzelce deneyimleyince geri döner düşüncelerimi yazarım.

Absolutely amazing piece of gaming history, over 20 years of constant care from its creators.

The steam version helps introduce the game to many people who couldn't get into the game due to the old ascii system.

if this has not recieved a labour of love award yet, it 100% needs to be nominated.

Strike the earth!

You know what this game its. Its reputation is legendary. It is well earned as well. It says that I have one hundred hours. That is a lie. This is one that I need to come back to time and again, and have needed that since before it was released on steam

probably one of the most complex games of all time. The game iself ends up being both game, art, and a fantasy world simulator. absolute peak. 100% deserves its place in the museum of modern art, as well.

I simply love this game. Since it's been announced for Steam, with overhauled graphics and the roadmap ahead I've been hooked. I might not have much hours in the game, but it's been something that I've steadily played here and there. As someone that doesn't have much time for gaming anymore, especially since I became a dad, singleplayer games like these have become my go-to genre. If you like base builders with a complex and deep system, then give this game a try. I also tried the Adventure Mode on the Beta Version, but it still has a few updates till it catches up with the current free-version of the game. But all in all I continue to play and love to hear the news about upcoming features :D

That is the best trailer I have ever seen for a game. Its clear you love it. Good job guys!

Amazing game. I'm so excited that there are hundreds of content for me to discover. DF really scratches the itch that Rimworld and other colony sims never quite scratched.

150 hrs in and you can tell how much dedication from the developers have put in over the years and still has so much more to offer would absolutely reccomend for those who enjoy the dwarfish vibe 10/10 would give a go

I really wish I could give DF a positive review. I've tried to get into it for a good 10 years now, but the jankiness is what put me off each time.
Well, sadly, the jank is still here. I've build my real first fortress in the Steam version, in a peaceful region, After 6 years in game, the simulation slowed down noticeably. Also pathfinding turned out to be a real issue, with dwarfs drowning in drows in a mote I set up and filled on ground level.
Lots of mechanics unexplained, filters not working as expected (justice system - search by name), some other stuff I did not write down.
If it wasn't for DFHack, I would quit it much earlier.
The depth of the game doesn't do much if you have to rely on 3rd party tools to explore it.

I've been learning how to play this game for a long time. This week (September 29th as of writing) I sat down and did my very best to learn as much about it as I could through trial and error, as well as watching other people play it (Blind has many tutorials on how to play). I've hardly mastered it and probably won't any time soon but it has become my favorite game. I understand it enough to know how to play it and do a ton of stuff. I get it now. It's totally worth it if you have the time and patience to learn how to play. There's always something that needs to be done and time simply melts away. It's a beautiful game in its own way and the most fun I've had while playing a game in a really long time.

The purest expression of video games as art, now with sprites and mouse controls. Experience it.

I've been playing this game on and off since you had to download it off their website and deal with all the characters being ascii code. It's still a great game, but now it's also more user friendly.

Has actual depth and features in the base game unlike RimWorld. And costs less too, to skip on this is your loss. STRIKE THE EARTH!

It's my new favorite game. It's deeply complex and entertaining, with endless replay value. The World Generation system is just pure magic, and the game absolutely deserves its place in the Modern Museum of Art.

However, I'd caution newbies to the Colony Sim, when I say it's deeply complex, I really, really mean it. The mechanics both overt and covert are thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. Furthermore, its still in development. At 0.5X the game only has half the features the developer want implemented. So one should also expect bugs and frustration. If you can get past that however, you'll find a unique experience of living fantasy world(s) where your actions truly matter. Mistakes you've made mining greedily and deeply 20 years ago will have wide repercussions on the world well into the present.

Si pudiera jugar solo un juego por la eternidad, elegiría Dwarf Fortress, puedes ponerte los objetivos que quieras, hacer la fortaleza de tus sueños hasta que el puño de Armok caiga sobre ella y se acabe todo de las formas mas extravagantes. Les dare algunos ejemplos reales de mis fracasos mas espectaculares:

- invasión de goblins
- inundación al intentar llevar agua dentro de la fortaleza.
- asesinato masivo de mis enanos por hombreschancho (en la luna llena)

Ojo: Es para gente que le gustan los retos y tiene un mínimo de inteligencia para entender los conceptos del juego.

Totalmente Recomendado!

Honestly, we really don't need to keep on making video games, as a species. Dwarf Fortress already exists, it's all downhill from here.

A complex, great gem. Been playing it on and off since 2019, when I discovered the ASCII version, yet I can still barely touch surface of the many insane things people manage to create in this game (mainly because the Steam overhaul is more comprehensible for me).

For every play through, you discover many things and each time every fort gets more formidable. However it's open to many dangers as well, from within (cavern dwellers, forgotten beasties and "The Circus") and beyond (gobbos wanting to siege, titans, etc).

Love this game. Probably the most complex colony management game I've played. Some systems are clunky, but I'm having so much fun it doesn't really matter.

DF is the greatest world simulation project that currently exists. Tarn Adams is the Linus Torvald of the genre, and I can't wait to see what his game will look like a decade from now.

10/10 - Been playing since 2018 and I can't stop revisiting it!

Dwarf Fortress finally playable, and has a usable UI. It's one of the greatest games ever made where you can do anything, and also watch your dwarves die in all kinds of spectacular ways. Dying is fun! You create a world, and your fortress goes onto this timeline, and when you die, you should create a new fortress in that timeline, you can constantly influence the world, and see new legends and all kinds of stuff happening. You are part of the world, you are not the world. Meaning, sometimes you get stopped on, and you know what, that's fun.

Possibly the best sandbox game I've ever played.
Remember: Losing is fun!

Akur Akir Akam!
(Champions are rewarded with fortune!)

At some point in the future I'm sure this will become positive, but since it's quite difficult to figure out how to get your people to do so many basic things- I just don't have the time to study all this stuff right now. On paper it could be my dream game, but the interface is not good. Things are needlessly difficult and I don't believe it's because of the depth. An interface could simply be layered, letting you do all the basic stuff and get into the complex stuff as necessary. Rimworld is a great example of a very complex game with many systems that doesn't feel like homework to learn. Sure, you'll figure out something important you were not doing, then fix it on your next city, but I dunno- I think the DF interfaces could be much better.

Whenever I have the time to learn all the systems perhaps this will go to a positive. But after 10 or so hours on the steam version and many hours on other versions- if I can't do so many basic things I'm going to go ahead and assume it's due to the interface. Yes, cue the "you are not smart enough" stuff- but I assure you my intellectual background is pretty decent.

Coming from Rimworld --> Odd World --> and now Dwarf Fortress I am very happy with this game.

The game seems simple on the surface but there is a LOT of stuff going on that isn't visible without investigation or flat out hidden which keeps you on your toes. The game also lets you build all sorts of traps and and structures which can be used for your own gain quite advantageously. There will also be lots of quick curve balls that can lead to a quick loss of your kingdom if you arent prepared!

Suggestions:

UI could use some optimization, especially when automating jobs in the labor menu. It can quickly fill up with hundreds of separate orders and there is no way to search for a specific one like "iron bolts".

also being able to remove underground tree spores would make farming a lot easier to manage.

Edit:

Shortly after posting this review, I got the infamous "general strike" glitch. 250 dwarves in and reached the final cave just to get teased!

Edit 2: I have changed my review and it is really disappointing. I really like this game and I want to keep my review positive but the "General Strike" bug is devastating. It not only ruined my fortress of 250 dwarves but it continued into a completely new settlement in that same generated world right off the rip. Dwarves would not chop trees and would not mine at all while giant animals roamed around threatening to kill them all. I have read many stories and forums of my same exact issue and this has been a game breaking bug in DF for well over a year now.

I really hope the devs are able to find out what the bug is and are able to fix it. Until then, I'm really demotivated to play.

P.S.
I will submit a bug report with a copy of my bugged game when I get to it.

What's to say that hasn't been said? Mechanically messy, somewhat buggy, always crazy and unpredictable and constantly changing shape and iterating in all the most pleasing ways. Dwarf Fortress is a beautiful and chaotic mess. Easily the most detailed and complex simulation game ever created by a wide margin.

The graphics, sometimes to the ire of some of the old 'elites', have made the game tremendously more accessible to those who can't stare at ASCII art or memorize a library of keyboard shortcuts and have ushered in an fresh audience of new players without sacrificing much that hasn't already been re-implemented or redesigned to work better.

This is where it's at folks. The mack daddy of all simulation games. Get it while it's hot.

So much depth of gameplay, Dwarf Fortress quite simply takes anything you could expect or imagine happening in a dwarf fortress and makes it happen. Each playthrough, each gameplay clip, each play session, I learn some new thing that can happen, or some intricate mechanic that I didn't know prior. Seriously Dwarf Fortress reaches deep into the potential of a simulation.

Simply put.. it is amazing. The coplexity and the scope of Dwarf Fortress is, in a god way, breathtaking. Love it.

It's funny that out of all of the triple A games I've played (that my potatoe can handle), I've played Dwarf Fortress the most, an Indie game. There are bugs, and there UI enhancements that could be made, but I do understand that this is a 2 to 3 man development team for this passion project. I was stoked for this graphically pleasing version as the original ASCII version scared me of back in 2006. Very rewarding with plenty of YouTube content creators providing tutorials.

If, like me, you understand that sometimes loosing can be fun too(!) — and, be assured, you will have SO much fun playing this game — then I can't possibly imagine a better game. Just remember to be careful around cotton candy.

Seriously one of the best games ever made. Even as someone who does not usually like colony sims, Dwarf Fortress hooked me in with its variety and intrigue.

I will give a thumbs up because the game is definitely good for people that like THIS kind of granularity in a builder game, for me it is not suited (but that doesnt make the game bad in any way)

I prefer games that dont go that deep into the construction steps(like building 10 different kinds of doors having that many factory buildings and that many steps to create something). I want the more streamlined and higher abstraction level when building a base so even though I love the premise of the game and the general mechanics I couldnt bring myself to learning all these mechanics in detail...

so adventure mode may bring me back to it or if there ever is a configuration on map creation to make everything easier and more streamlined, that would be a dream maybe a mod will do this one day

Quite possibly the best game ever made, if you like caves of qud and want to play a high fantasy version of that, get this game, generate a young world, and play adventure mode, you won't regret it

This review hurts to write. I have been playing this game on an off since the 2d era. Each time I would get overwhelmed by the number of bugs get frustrated and quit. This was fine for a passion project released for free by a single developer. But this is now a commercial game. Some of the bugs are 14+ years old at this point. Traders get stuck on the map, the broker refuses to trade, dwarves will get stuck in a socialization/drinking loop, buckets get stuck in wells. The game is filled with complex subsystems that are all about 80% compete. Meanwhile the developer is off working on adventure mode. The bugs will never get fixed stop asking.

The UI is terrible, you can't click on dwarves names to bring up information about them, it's just a random list of names most times. Dwarves all have two names, in the justice menu it uses one name, in the alert and labor menu it is a totally different name. The game actively hides information you need and requires external tools like DF hack to play. Fans of the game will point to the wiki and the pages of convoluted workarounds developed over the years to get around the bugs, but it gets to the point where you are mostly bug fixing a collapsing fortress and not really playing the game.

This game is amazing in it’s scope, but it may end up being known for the games in inspired.

Daunting.
10x more time reading and learning than playing.
Buggy and quirky.
You learn to accept and then love the strange oddities on how the game works.
You lose and you have fun. Often at the same time.

It's fine. There's a cool community around the game, including a lot of folks who have been playing for many years (and who are probably responsible for the overall overwhelmingly positive set of reviews on Steam). Some very cool stories can emerge from gameplay and are fun to read. Far more fun than actually learning and playing the game. I love simulation games, but the genre at its worst tends to suffer from bad UI design, bugs that arise when complicated systems interact, and poorly-explained mechanics; Dwarf Fortress has all of these in droves.

If you do decide to dive in, you are going to want to watch hours worth of videos, read the wiki, get set up with mods to fix the poor UI, and then dive in on Reddit as you go. And I'm not talking about "learning how to win" (there's no real win condition anyway) or reading all the spoilers, I'm just talking about figuring out the janky mechanics. In between clicking tons of buttons and researching to figure out why your dwarves won't pick up a shoe littering the hallway there are moments of fun, and I can see why people who have learned all the ins and outs might like it. I gave it a fair shot. Not my cup of tea.

Dwarf Fortress offers an incredibly detailed and immersive simulation of dwarven life and survival. Build and manage a fortress, dig through complex layers of earth, and contend with a myriad of challenges from internal strife to external threats. Its depth and complexity provide a unique, rewarding experience for players who enjoy intricate management and simulation games. Despite its steep learning curve, the rich world and emergent storytelling make it a must-play for fans of the genre.

You can play an adventurer and grab someone by the neck while pulling out all their teeth

Ok this game is amazing the possibilities are literally endless. and only restricted by your own imagination and ability to tell your own story. the thing that put me off this game for a while was the thought of how complex it was. but i can honestly say between the wiki and the online guides and also the community on steam this game is really easy to pick up and learn just don't go into it expecting to win it is a game where you lose and have fun and tell your own story doing it. keep the wiki open whilst playing and if you are into games like where you can tell your own story. give this a try it is truly one of the best gaming experiences i have had in a long time.