The premium version of Dwarf Fortress is approaching an impressive milestone of 1 million copies sold. And the Adams brothers have no plans to stop developing their life’s project.
Never heard of Dawrf Fortress until I had sheddit and came to lemmy, where it’s sub(? Instance? Thread?) Came up on my feed before I made an account. Like a lot. Linux, programmer humor, memes, and dwarf fortress where all I saw.
I’ll need to be in the right mood to start that game, but the hype is kinda insane for a roguelike. I have high expectations.
It’s not a roguelike. There are two game modes. There’s a colony manager (similar to Rim World, in fact it inspired Rim World and they first announced it on the DF forums), and there’s also an RPG style game, except it’s not like any RPG you’ve played before. It gives you absolute freedom, and there’s also no main quest or anything. The game is being updated soon, which will be a big update for the RPG mode, and finally brining that to the Steam version, which has the graphics rather than ASCII (ASCII version is available for free and still updated).
I recommend checking out Kruggsmash if you want to learn about what Fortress Mode (colony manager) is all about, and BlindIRL for general DF news and information.
It got a lot to learn, but it’s not too bad if you just know that you’ll lose your first few fortresses and that’s good. It’s part of the learning process. You’ll hopefully live the game, and welcome to the community!
Never heard of Dawrf Fortress until I had sheddit and came to lemmy, where it’s sub(? Instance? Thread?) Came up on my feed before I made an account. Like a lot. Linux, programmer humor, memes, and dwarf fortress where all I saw.
I’ll need to be in the right mood to start that game, but the hype is kinda insane for a roguelike. I have high expectations.
It’s not a roguelike. There are two game modes. There’s a colony manager (similar to Rim World, in fact it inspired Rim World and they first announced it on the DF forums), and there’s also an RPG style game, except it’s not like any RPG you’ve played before. It gives you absolute freedom, and there’s also no main quest or anything. The game is being updated soon, which will be a big update for the RPG mode, and finally brining that to the Steam version, which has the graphics rather than ASCII (ASCII version is available for free and still updated).
I recommend checking out Kruggsmash if you want to learn about what Fortress Mode (colony manager) is all about, and BlindIRL for general DF news and information.
It got a lot to learn, but it’s not too bad if you just know that you’ll lose your first few fortresses and that’s good. It’s part of the learning process. You’ll hopefully live the game, and welcome to the community!
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