December 6, 2006
Dwarf Fortress
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December 6, 2006
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Summary
The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created. The legendary Dwarf Fortress is now on Steam. Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world.
Dwarf Fortress System Requirements
🤏 Minimum Requirements
OS:
XP SP3 or later
CPU:
Dual Core CPU - 2.4GHz+
RAM:
4 GB RAM
GPU:
1GB of VRAM
HDD:
500 MB available space
👍 Recommended Specs
CPU:
Dual Core CPU - 4GHz+
RAM:
4 GB RAM
HDD:
500 MB available space
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Critic Reviews12
Dwarf Fortress is, initially, a little daunting. Not because it’s inaccessible, but because you just know that it’s going to turn into a real time-sink. Is it the prettiest game around? No, but it’s wonderfully, ridiculously deep and a sheer joy to play. If you’re prepared to put the time in, Dwarf Fortress will drag you into its depths and you won’t regret it for one second.
January 3, 2023
Dwarf Fortress is a storytelling engine as much as it is a game, spitting out associations and facts and details that you can shape into a coherent and specific narrative. This is also what we do to our own lives, personifying random events so that they feel significant rather than a matter of chance. Life isn’t usually a satisfying narrative. It isn’t so much that “Dwarf Fortress” is a perfect simulacrum of life, but that it shines a bright light on the human tendency to look for meaning in everything. I care about my dwarves because the stories I make up about their lives are also the ones I make up about my own.
December 15, 2022
