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 ...

Dwarf Fortress hasn't been on Steam all that long, but it's already proven to be a colossal success. The colony management game has really been decades in the making, and in that time there have been ...

Choosing World Generation Settings in Dwarf Fortress is as important to the quality of your game as choosing a balanced breakfast is to your health. Your fortress does not exist in a vacuum, and like ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. For the better part of two decades, Dwarf Fortress has been the passion project of brothers Tarn and Zach Adams. Although the acclaimed fantasy ...

Last month, the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress received the long-awaited addition of its absentee roguelike Adventure Mode after a lengthy beta period. The fan-favorite feature from the game's ASCII ...