Dwarf Fortress is a deep colony simulation and strategy game that has been in active development for two decades since its original 2006 release. The game tasks players with establishing and managing underground dwarven settlements, balancing resource management, construction, and survival against the countless threats that emerge in its procedurally generated worlds.
The game recently marked its 20th anniversary, an occasion Bay 12 Games acknowledged alongside coverage examining the broader history of colony-building games and their design challenges. Recent retrospectives have positioned Dwarf Fortress as a foundational title within the genre, with industry discussions exploring how the game and others like it have shaped the colony sim landscape since the era of Dungeon Keeper.
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"I try to have good moral qualities, but I am apparently subject to all forms of flattery and vanity and such."
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Tarn Adams lives in a house now. I bet that's nice.
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Expect an "infinite soup" of dynamic societies and more, as we play Afterworld and interview game director Dan Lind
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"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
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Infamously simulation-heavy colony builder Dwarf Fortress is getting a Myth and Magic update that, at the possible risk of being maybe a touch hyperbolic, threatens to make all other fantasy game spellcraft look like a sleepy bout of Got Your Nose. It's summarised by Bay12 co-fou…
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"Everything that makes fantasy what it is—with every piece tied into how that particular universe works, down to its bones."
An update years in the making: magic is coming to Dwarf Fortress.
It is 20 years since Dwarf Fortress first went public, and Bay 12 Games has been celebrating with friends!
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PC Gamer interviews the genre's founding fathers.