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Dwarf Fortress

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First release
Dec 06, 2022
Developer
Bay 12 Games
Publisher
Kitfox Games
Engine
OpenGL
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Indie, Simulator, Strategy · Sandbox, Open world, 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), Fantasy, Survival

In this complex construction/management/roguelike simulation, every generated world brings a unique challenge, whether it’s dwarves with their own simulated personalities or aquifers. Observe what makes your civilization fall into eventual decline, and learn for next time… until something else inevitably goes wrong. The combat model includes skills, body parts, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, pain, nausea, various poison effects, and much more. It’s difficult to convey the depth of the generation. Hundreds of animals and monsters, many of which are randomly created for each world, as well as generated poetry, musical forms, instruments, and dances for your dwarves to practice and perform. A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity, and air masses to create fronts, clouds, storms, and blizzards. Over two hundred rock and mineral types can appear, in their proper geological environments.

Also known as Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress, Dwarf Fortress.exe

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Steam users rate this Very Positive, 29,373 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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