Dwarf Fortress

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☑ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Legendary game.

Tons of solid students but no one does it like the master

Hours Played: 94 hrs on Steam (plus countless pre‑Steam years) Recommended: ✔️ Absolutely Dwarf Fortress on Steam is still hard — just not the same brutal, ASCII‑driven madness many of us survived back in the day. The UI, tileset, and tutorials make it way more approachable, but the soul of the game is unchanged: dwarves still make terrible decisions, forgotten beasts still ruin your week, and losing is still the best part. I supported DF years ago and even got my crayon drawing — a fire‑breathing giraffe battling dwarves. That alone tells you what kind of beautiful chaos this game inspires. Steam DF is the “easy version,” sure… but it’s still a fortress‑management fever dream where difficulty equals fun. The simulation depth is unmatched, the stories write themselves, and every fortress collapse feels like a badge of honor. Verdict: A friendlier doorway into one of the greatest emergent storytelling games ever made. Hard = Fun, and Dwarf Fortress still delivers both in spades.

I've logged 800+ hours on just the Steam version, and probably couple thousand more before that on the old free-to-play versions, so... what else can I say? It's a great simulator game that lets you create custom worlds, set your own gameplay goals, and add whatever mods, tweaks, or cheats you like. The learning curve is a bleep if you're just starting out, so I do recommend having the DFWiki on hand and/or watching a few YouTube tutorials if/when you get stuck. But once it all clicks for you, it's downright addicting. Just keep the game's first premise in mind - Losing is Fun! - and you'll be fine. Just one caveat: If you're the kind of person who wants their game to have a well-defined plot and assigned side-quests and a main Big Bad Evil Guy that you defeat to "win", you're going to haaaaaaaaate this. The game world, plot(s), and victory conditions are all whatever you make of them, and there's no real ending unless your fort/party either chooses to retire or gets wiped out.

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Losing is fun!

Dig Hole. Winter comes. Water freezes. Die. Dig Hole. Dig too deep, too greedily. Die. Dig Hole. Dig deep, carefully. Goblins raid. Die.

I played Dwarf Fortress before with the Lazynewbpack, so I admit I was a little worried that with this new version, I wouldn't have the same "spreadsheet" style control over my dwarves labors and happiness. However after getting used to it, the Steam Dwarf Fortress version has pretty much all the same conveniences from before as well as new ones. The art/tile set in the steam version is clearer and more engaging. I really appreciate games like Dwarf Fortress that have such a depth of options and detail that rewards a player's curiosity and time.

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