Dwarfs!?

I picked this up mostly out of curiosity and ended up sinking way more time into it than I expected. You basically babysit a horde of suicidal little dwarves who will happily dig straight into lava or a flood if you blink, so it's your job to steer them, wall things off, and blow holes to drain the danger before it wipes your colony. It's chaotic in a charming way, the music is relaxing, and there's a surprising amount of variety once you dig into the extra modes and difficulties. My only real gripe is that the achievements can be finicky, since a couple wouldn't unlock for me until I messed around with the free version. Still, for a cheap and addictive time killer it's an easy yes, especially on sale.

It's simple but fun. try it out and support them with the purchase

Very cool old game, there's a lot of fun to have here. Dig all the riches of the land, but being dwarfs, they are always drunk, making mistakes like flooding the mines, either with water or lava or (redacted). Real time action management, like I said very cool old game.

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Pretty good casual strategy game. You have your dwarfs, which mostly go about their business digging holes and mining gold on their own, but you can give them directions at a small cost. You need to mine as much as you can while still using your various tools to protect your dwarfs. However, you must use your tools wisely, as they cost you valuable gold. Also features voice acting by Simon from Yogscast, of "Diggy Diggy Hole" fame. It reminds me somewhat of Lemmings. As in that game, your dwarfs are autonomous and you have a limited ability to help them and keep at least most of them alive. It also reminds me a little bit of Dwarf Fortress, in that you take the position of Overseer and watch over your largely independent dwarfs and try your best to deal with disasters as they occur. Although this game is fully 2D, and is pretty much infinitely simpler in every way. You might call this a Dwarf Fortress equivalent for kids. There are some very tame alcohol references and a bit of quite mild cartoon violence. I consider this game appropriate for kids, if that is what you are looking for. Acing the challenges can be a little tricky but overall the game is pretty easy by real-time s…

It's a high score game. That's it. Dwarves roam around and uncover hidden areas which might have a boss, lava, or water. Cut the lava and water off, kill the boss. That's it, you're just trying to get a high score. The score is the driving force as you'll want as many of the dumb miners to be spawned for a higher score, which means more random uncovering of hidden areas. Every single action costs gold which is what you'll need to get a higher score. The UI is not good, menu screen harks back to the old days and is very unclear, the controls are not good.