Dwarf Fortress News

Two of the pieces of media that I love most in this world are colony management game Dwarf Fortress and John Carpenter's The Thing, the 1982 sci-fi horror movie about an underground base in Antarctica in which Kurt Russell learns about the true value of friendship. Now, a saintly modder has brought those two blessed properties together with a Dwarf Fortress mod called The Parasyte-Thing.

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Dwarf Fortress adds deathmatch with Arena Mode update

Dwarf Fortress creators get their first Steam cheque, and it's big

This 3D Dwarf Fortress visualizer now works with Steam

Издательство Kitfox Games сообщило, что симулятор строительства с элементами рогалика Dwarf Fortress продался тиражом более 600 тысяч копий за два месяца — в четыре раза больше, чем ожидалось.

There are countless ways for dwarves to die in Dwarf Fortress, a colony management game that I've sometimes described as "a game about entirely preventable tragedies." The latest Dwarf Fortress update adds a new one: gladiatorial battles between dwarves and any number of the game's many strange and violent creatures.

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Dwarf Fortress creators get their first Steam cheque, and it's big

This 3D Dwarf Fortress visualizer now works with Steam

Dwarf Fortress on Steam now has the game's best management tool

If you're still intimidated by base building in Dwarf Fortress's Steam release, then there's good news. Patch 50.06, released today, has added Arena Mode into the Steam version. Arena is a sandbox mode where you can spawn any of Dwarf Fortress's various creatures, kit them out with gear, set special conditions, and then watch them battle it out. It is great.

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