“What is Dwarf Fortress?” is not an easy question to answer. Sure, there’s a quick answer — Dwarf Fortress is a colony simulator game — but that glosses over so much of what Dwarf Fortress is. It’s a ...

Dwarf Fortress coming to Steam means that community-created mods are easier than ever to install. These mods do everything from adding new playable races to tweaking graphics to turning Dwarf Fortress ...

Tarn and Zach Adams, the brothers behind Dwarf Fortress, have gone on record describing the game as essentially an open-ended story generator, giving players a system built to provide a limitless ...

Derrie Thickett is a freelance List Writer for GameRant. Derrie's love for video games started when he received a copy of The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind as a Christmas gift. He can usually be found in ...

Dwarf Fortress has achieved mythical status for its furiously detailed algorithmic worlds, its legendarily long development, and the fact that its creators, Tarn and Zach Adams, seem content to ...

If you've only read stories about Dwarf Fortress and have never played the PC's most insanely complex ASCII sim, you may not know that it offers two very different ways to play. The more popular is ...