Dwarf Fortress

released on Aug 08, 2006

Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world.


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One of a kind. I played it in high school while telling my teachers I was programming.

Why do my dwarves always put on only one sock is forever most mysterious unresolved question to me.

Más juego de rol que la mayoría de rpgs que existen. Sin el componente social directo del rol de papel y lapiz, la experiencia de jugar Dwarf Fortress es una absorta y solitaria. Pero un componente social indirecto surge inevitablemente. Como generador de historias que es, crea la necesidad natural de contar esas historias. La crudeza de la presentación en ASCII es perfecta para la abstracción literaria de la propuesta. Y de ese impulso a compartir surgen todos esos post en foros, vídeos de youtube, guías y crónicas, como una extensión más de lo que es Dwarf Fortress. Una comunidad altruista empeñada en compartir conocimiento sobre un juego gratuito hecho por dos hermanos a lo largo de su vida. Un creador de mundos, civilizaciones, fortalezas y enanos obsesionados con la cerveza y cavar hasta encontrar la efímera gloria o su inevitable ruina.

Dwarf Fortress is among the best games I've ever played. This is truly a game with unlimited depth and infinite possibilities. Base building is a lot of fun, and usually during each run I'll try to master a new mechanic, like farming, military, etc. I actually learned to play this with the ASCII graphics and prefer it that way to this day.

I have been playing this game in some form or another since 2007. I have seen an entire genre - colony sims - spring up around it as people realize its brilliance. While other games may be friendlier to the player (Rimworld) or put a good spin on colony management (Oxygen Not Included), nothing has the pure "story generation" power of Dwarf Fortress. Iconic for a reason.

feel stuck between the pre- and post- steam release versions of the game, as the steam release fixed some crucial and longstanding performance issues and added great tools for mod management but took away some minor functionality/agency and massively slowed down the speed at which you can interact with the game systems. still has a special place in my heart despite this being the longest stretch i've had of not playing the game