

Dwarf Fortress
Bay 12 Games · December 6, 2022 · Dwarves, Colony Sim, Base Building, Simulation, Strategy
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Dwarf Fortress price by region
Dwarf Fortress costs $14.49 in Georgia (USD), £17.80 in the United Kingdom, €21.59 in Europe (EUR), $23.76 in the United States, CA$35.99 in Canada, A$41.95 in Australia, NZ$43.59 in New Zealand, R$99.99 in Brazil and zł111.17 in Poland right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14.49 | $14.49 | $23.76 | 8 | |
| £17.80 −29% | £24.99 | £17.80 | 6 | |
| €21.59 −26% | €28.99 | €21.59 | 7 | |
| $23.76 −21% | $29.99 | $23.76 | 8 | |
| CA$35.99 | CA$35.99 | — | 2 | |
| A$41.95 | A$41.95 | — | 2 | |
| NZ$43.59 | NZ$43.59 | — | 2 | |
| R$99.99 | R$99.99 | R$152.75 | 3 | |
| zł111.17 −13% | zł128.21 | zł111.17 | 4 |
Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.
Trailers & screenshots
About Dwarf Fortress
Build and manage a dwarven fortress full of personalities and problems, watching your colony mine deeper toward inevitable chaos in this infinitely deep simulation of generated worlds. With pixel graphics, music, and tutorials now making it accessible, Dwarf Fortress combines construction, management, and roguelike survival across hundreds of procedurally created creatures, cultures, and geological features that ensure no two playthroughs are ever the same.
- Not just generated geometry -- a whole simulated world. Generated rise and fall of civilizations, personalities, creatures, cultures, etc. Infinite hours of gameplay.
- Now with beautiful pixel graphics!
- Learn the basics with in-game tutorials
- A lifetime “living” project - created/updated since 2003, with no end in sight
- Generate your unique world and manage a bustling colony of dwarves, even as they probably mine towards their eventual demise.
- A new endless hobby, just for you!
In this complex construction/management/roguelike simulation, every generated world brings a unique challenge, whether it’s dwarves with their own simulated personalities or aquifers. Observe what makes your civilization fall into eventual decline, and learn for next time… until something else inevitably goes wrong.
The combat model includes skills, body parts, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, pain, nausea, various poison effects, and much more.
It’s difficult to convey the depth of the generation. Hundreds of animals and monsters, many of which are randomly created for each world, as well as generated poetry, musical forms, instruments, and dances for your dwarves to practice and perform. A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity, and air masses to create fronts, clouds, storms, and blizzards. Over two hundred rock and mineral types can appear, in their proper geological environments.
Remember: Losing is fun!
This is still good old Dwarf Fortress, but with graphics support and music provided. A few bells and whistles won’t change its essence.
Classic Dwarf Fortress mod-artist Jacob "Ironhand" Bowman collaborated with artists Carolyn Jong and Neoriceisgood to create an all-new sprite pack for the game, which they continue to add to regularly.Dwarf Fortress also has hours of music in a two-volume soundtrack by Dabu and Simon Swerwer, including tracks in the Dwarvish language!
It's never been easier to start playing! We've improved the new player experience with the addition of tutorials to guide you through building your first fort and keeping your dwarves happy.
Command your dwarves as they search for wealth in their generated mountain. Your dwarves will need a steady supply of food and beer, but they’ll also need your guidance in surviving attacks from hostile civilizations, the wilderness, or even the dead.
- Craft treasures and furnitures from various materials
- Establish a barony and support the increasingly demanding nobility
- Read your dwarves’ thoughts to keep them happy
- Build floodgates to divert water for farming, and/or prevent magma mishaps
- Build structures and watch your dwarves discover and build their culture, like taverns, libraries, temples, honey, wax, pottery, animal training, bookbinding, and more.
- Go anywhere! Explore any civilization, earn a reputation, and recruit followers to join you
- Experience your fortress and the simulation in a new, more embodied way
- Explore mythical dungeons to find magical items, artifacts, and fill your quest journal
- Hints of mythology and magic as a start of future simulation enrichment to come
- An additional hour of music from Dabu and Simon Swerwer, presented as a second volume of the original soundtrack
- The original inspiration for RimWorld, Prison Architect, Minecraft and more.
- One of the first video games acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York
- Updated for over 16 years by two brothers, Tarn “Toady One” and Zach “Threetoe” Adams, and with the support of Kitfox Games since 2020.
Dwarf Fortress — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux / SteamOS
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
Dwarf Fortress in the rankings
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Nice base structure, and nice stead updates, but core problem always remains, this game doesnt make good use of multi threads CPU and even with a monster machine still ends up beeing able to lagout almost every game at one point, you will spend hours on building this nice system only to end up on unavoidable stalls such as 98% of dwarvs not worrking, sleeping or eatin, simply stuck there no jobs while you have 1500x things un done i find that the more dwarfs you get the more this problem occurs into various ways, like over socialising and never leaving taverns mixed with the snow/rain effects + water/lava tiles finding a none laggin combo is actuly harder than learning the game it self and FYI, bought and tryd this game on a normal common PC to start with, now on a 64GO ram + waterforced 5080 on DDR5 and 100% SSD's with bloody 24 Cores and a cartoon style game lags more than EVE online with 15x freken clients simultanous3 found this helpful
[h1] The tale of El Hefé [/h1] aka Efé Ulavimeba Ecanó Thela aka Efé Growledreigned the Strength of Adventure aka 'El Hefé' El Hefé is a 40ft tall bronze colossus that found its way to the fortress of Belkenis, and sought to raze it to the ground. El Hefé had nintety-eight confirmed kills from other territories, and would certainly have smashed through the walls (and dwarves) of Belkenis like a sledgehammer on a block of lurpak. El Hefé was caught in a wooden cage designed for a 5ft dwarf. "How?", you ask? [b]"Dwarven engineering"[/b], reply the dwarves of Belkenis. Humans couldn't possibly understand it. I had the dwarves dig a deep, deep pit. I had the dwarves throw El Hefé inside. I had the dwarves lay a nice stone floor over the surface, a hatch on the top, and connect the hatch to a lever. "How did they move him?" you ask? After all, he weighs several hundred thousand 'Γ', the dwarven unit of weight measurement. [b]"Dwarven strength"[/b], reply the dwarves of Belkenis. Humans couldn't possibly understand it. El Hefé is now sealed in the windowless pit. He does not eat. He does not sleep. He does not feel. All day, every day, and all night, every night, he tries to climb th…2 found this helpful
If it clicks for you like it did for me you might just play 90+ hours in the 1st 2 weeks like i did..1 found this helpful
I've never played a game so in depth as Dwarf Fort. The graphics aside, if you love deep mechanics and emergent stories then you WILL LOVE this game.
Super complicated, and not very intuitive, but very interesting. I wish it was easier to navigate via keyboard, since there's a lot of interaction that needs to happen
Legendary game, the most passionate developers ever, only 1 GB and it still can give you hours and hours and hours of fun! This game is unique amongst all other. Highly recommend!
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