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OS: Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit, Steam OS CPU: Dual-core 2.4GHz Mem: 4GB HDD: 500MB GPU: Nvidia 9400 GT, Radeon HD 5450, Intel HD 3000, 1GB VRAM
The absurd depth of this simulation gives Dwarf Fortress a frankly unreasonable amount of detail.
Over 13 years of playing Dwarf Fortress, we’ve seen plenty of legends. Witnessed one-armed O dwarven generals strangle dragons as old as time. Watched in horror as an artisan emerged from months trapped in the caves below fortress halls, clinging to life just long enough to craft one last work: a puzzlebox of obsidian and bone. Beheld the legions of the underworld overrun our world. Now we get to see Dwarf Fortress arrive on Steam (we’re a little late to the party), the colony sim’s emergent storytelling more approachable than it’s ever been – but only just.
The ever-evolving life’s work of brother developers Tarn and Zach Adams, Dwarf Fortress is entering a new age, shedding its text-based graphics for proper pixels and the basic modernity of native mouse support. Still inscrutable, still magnificent, the game remains an incomparable treasure trove of procedural mythmaking.