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Dwarf Fortress

2022 83 / 100 Indie Role-playing (RPG) Simulator
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, na Show full summary

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.

World design Open World StructureSandbox GameplaySurvival GameplayRole-playing

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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.

StructureSandbox GameplaySurvival GameplayRole-playing GenreIndie GenreRole-playing (RPG) GenreSimulator Theme4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) ThemeFantasy ThemeOpen world
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Dwarf Fortress: release, platforms, and facts

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Studios & ownership

Studio & publishing

Developer
Bay 12 Games
Publisher
Kitfox Games
Franchise
Standalone
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So spielt es sich

Spielprofil

Modi
Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric, Text
Themes
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), Fantasy, Open world, Sandbox, Survival
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Wo & wann

Platform releases

  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Dec 06, 2022
  • Linux Dec 19, 2023

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