Dwarf Fortress
| Over All Rank | Genre Rank | Better than | |
| 62 | 1 | 95% .521 | |
| 0 : Daily 0 : Trending 0 : Weekly | 0 : Daily 0 : Trending 0 : Weekly | of all games | |
Game Details
| Developer | Genre |
| Tarn Adams | City-Building Game |
| Publisher | Release Date |
| Bay 12 Games | 2006-08-08 |
| Game URL | Number Of People That Ranked This Game |
| http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ | 92 |
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| Featured Review HurrOfDurr ranked Dwarf Fortress #2 of 129 |
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February 27, 2012 If you ever wondered what a game that didn't compromise it's mechanics for graphics or user friendliness would look like dwarf fortress has taught us all that it looks eerily similar to a corrupt text document. But anyone who's played the game can tell you few games can be both as punishingly hard and as incredibly rewarding. Nearly every thing in the game is governed by a complex system interwoven with everything else. Behind a simple sword there is a weaponsmith who made the weapon, a furnace operator who smelted the ore, a wood burner who made the coal, a wood cutter who supplied the wood, a miner who dug out the ore, a mason who put the workshop together, an architect who designed the building, a brewer who made the booze they all drank on the job, a cook who made all the meals, a farmer who grew the crops, and an herbalist who gathered the seeds. Dwarf Fortress is famous for it's Fortress mode, where the player carves out a home for his Dwarves. A myriad of disasters can befall a fortress and it's up to the player, an omniscient god, to order around the otherwise hapless dwarves. The other mode is Adventure mode which is a rougelike adventure set in the world you generated, you can travel your would and get a feel for it's layout, travel into dungeons and labyrinths to fight beasts and find treasure. You can even visit fallen fortresses that you the player made. is a game that will continually surprise you. Not only the world is procedurally generated, but so are it's inhabitants, it's history, it's beasts from ages long forgotten, legendary artifacts, even the souls of each creature in the world are personal and unique. A dizzying amount of information is generated for each creature, everything from how curly their hair is and what type of booze they prefer all the way to their temperament, fears, hopes and dreams. All of which have an effect on how happy the dwarf is and how they react in a given situation. Generated content isn't the only things that will surprise you. You will constantly be entertained by FUN accidents leading to the deaths of dozens of skilled and unskilled dwarves. Even when you thought you've mastered everything the game could throw at you a flying forgotten beast that secretes deadly vapor flies over your traps and fortifications and lays waste to your forces. Few games can match Dwarf Fortress's Scope and Depth. While it's graphics and UI are something out of the early 80's the game itself is far beyond anything thing else and on top of that it's fucking free. |
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