Dwarf Fortress is a colony simulator game — but that glosses over so much of what Dwarf Fortress is. It’s also a labor of love lasting two decades that is about to get a Steam release.

Dwarf Fortress is a game where when things go wrong, you know you’ll have a great story to tell. Because its systems are so intricate and complicated, you’re always hit with multiple problems ...

But with Dwarf Fortress still among Steam's top sellers, the two must have millions coming their way. "It's just a ton of money, but it's also for 20 years," Tarn Adams said.

A Dwarf Fortress, via Jeremy Nissen. On the first day of GDC 2016, the creator of Dwarf Fortress stood at the front of a packed audience and explained how to procedurally generate the beginning of ...

After 20 years of development, the 1.0 version of "Dwarf Fortress" is out. The game provides players with endless stories — if they can master its menus.

Dwarf Fortress will be released on Dec. 6 on Steam for Windows PC. The game was reviewed on PC using a pre-release download code provided by Kitfox Games. Vox Media has affiliate partnerships.

Dwarf Fortress is, rightfully, moving with the times, and the 2025 roadmap looks extremely promising and more than a bit magical. When exactly we'll get to see these changes in action - and ...

Dwarf Fortress is an intimidating game. It is a venerable grandfather of an entire genre. Rimworld and many other deep colonist survival sim games owe much of their DNA to this 2002 game.

Dwarf Fortress hasn't been on Steam all that long, but it's already proven to be a colossal success. The colony management game has really been decades in the making, and in that time there have ...

Dwarf Fortress is also unapologetic about how much reading is involved, which is reams, as this is a game that generates whole novels worth of tall tales. Basically, ...

The much-anticipated Steam and Itch.io version of Dwarf Fortress was announced in 2019, and brothers Tarn and Zach Adams kept working on the game until its release last December.But it was exactly ...

The very first thing you do in “Dwarf Fortress” is generate a new world. There are a lot of cool options to choose from in the world generation screen, but if you’re new to the game it’s ...