Dwarf Fortress

my legendary mechanic was beaten to death for building the wrong ballista parts and I only realized when I saw his corpse on the ground

You have a team, dedicated to this craft. And the game is a masterfully made one. There are no known bugs for me. I have managed to fathom a way to find a moria river basin plains map. And have started making moria's keep. The mountain it's under was manmade in the books. The game gave me a huge war. And I was slaughtered. Thanks for adding care-bear functions for choosing not to go to war. peacefully.

I don't even know where to start, I love this so much

my favorite game of all time <3 i will play this even as an old raisin and have been playing the ascii game back then for years, which was a thing of its own beauty (and i miss it sometimes). that being said, the steam version has already made huge improvements especially for new players. getting into dwarf fortress was never as easy as now, so dont be intimidated. the music is so good too and it is a lot of fun to watch your dwarves run around, get new gear which changes their looks, dance and sing. all the portraits that were added until now are very cool and it is fun to look at how the ascii creatures you imagined for all those years differ from how the creatures are depicted now in pixel art. so many crazy things can happen in this game if you pay attention and these events are amongst the most memorable that have happened to me during any game. i remember dwarves, fortresses and events from years ago, just because they left such an impression and it is fun to get to know your dwarves. the combat is brutal, but can be goofy at the same time (when they attack with a sock or bite someone in their left eyelid) and i love the combat style (not hp-based, but depending on limbs, blood etc). i love creating intricate fort designs which can look like abstract art if you want them to. if you love building, this game features lots and lots of possibilities from beautiful fortresses to creating crazy contraptions or traps too and all the z-levels to build on multiple floors are so essential to the building and digging being fun. i guess you have to be willing to read a lot, even now that we are not in the ascii game anymore, and also be able to set goals for yourself and search for some of the interesting stuff, bc if you dont some of it can just go by undetected, but to me this is not a flaw of the game and rather an incentive: there is not really any predefined goal or some quest telling you what do to next or where to go. you have to be the type of person to enjoy that, or else you might feel lost in this game. there are some minor bugs (like militia dwarves that are also assigned to mining or tree cutting seem to run around constantly switching between their working and their combat weapons), but i have not encountered anything game breaking and have also not had problems with crashes at all. i love seeing how the game has developed over all those years and it is such a remarkable project in the history of games. there is so much detail and thought in even the tiny details, you can even drink your own tears (as an adventurer) lol what a magnum opus this game is, i am still really impressed by the achievement of creating such an immense project and by how Tarn and Zach are still giving the game so much attention after all those years <3

Very fun game with many things to learn.

Rimworld claims to be a story generator Dwarf fortress is what spawned it, and surpassed it in fantasy world simulation Seriously, when you play dwarf fortress, don't think of it as a game, think of it as a hyper detailed fantasy world simulator in which you exist and build your fortress. This game is deeper then your mom, you can build a basic ass fortress that sustains itself, forges weapons and runs by itself You can also delve into the mechanisms of this game, making pump-stacks to pump water from the depths into your fortress, maybe even use the water defensively to wash away those dirty goblins and tree loving knife ears then, discover adamantine, forge the sharpest weapons, delve too deep, unleash demons on your world, die just remember, that losing is fun :)

Insane and hilarious, complex and satisfying, world-building and resource management sim. Every fort goes differently, with new problems, new terrors, new moments of hilarity. It is very rewarding to take time to zoom in on your dwarfs, get to know their network and skills and personalities and tastes, notice that one of them has somehow acquired the affections of ten different cats and then feel horrified when they were all eaten by a Giant Cave Spider that broke into the fort because the militia unit who were supposed to be guarding the caverns entrance were all off duty in the tavern drinking mushroom ale and listening to a visiting elf bard sing a song... The game does have a very steep learning curve, which is well-served by tutorials and let's-play videos online, and I feel half of the battle is learning how to naviage the menus (decades of development have meant there are some mismatches and misunderstandings in labels and task descriptions). I kept a notebook at first to figure it out but now it's second nature. I'm a casual player, usually with minimal hostility, but I still find plenty fulfilling stuff to do and always find something to make me laugh ("Why is there a llama in the hospital?!") There's no way to win this game, but a million different ways to have Fun. Strike the earth!