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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, I've never felt so lost and powerless, still, so many hours into a game. What Dwarf Fortress really lacks, aside from a built-in tutorial that at least gets you started, is the ...

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, ...

Thanks to a wide variety of different modders building on each others' work, you can now play the text-based Dwarf Fortress with 3-D graphics.