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Dwarf Fortress

IndieSimulationStrategy

Developer Bay 12 Games

Dwarf Fortress (previously titled Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games. Available as freeware and in development since 2002, its first alpha version was released in 2006 and received attention for being a two-member project surviving solely on donations. Originally displayed using ASCII arts, the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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  • austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2025

    Anyway new topic. For no particular reason, what's your favorite game where sandbox-style play generates stories for you to tell your friends? Thinking of everything from Dwarf Fortress, to Project Zomboid, to Kerbal, to CK2, to Darkest Dungeon, or even the old X-COM 2 streams Rob and I did.

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  • VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2026

    Dwarf Fortress is a video game that you can play

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  • Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    I love game development (Alt text: BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS - Dwarf Fortress, bug report #13172)

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  • /noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ In the second episode of our Dwarf Fortress series we tell the story of how this free ASCII game survived 16 years of development thanks to a remarkable community. And the circumstances which pushed the creators to commercialize it. youtube.com/watch?v=PiNe...

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  • dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2025

    Our Dwarf Fortress series continues with the story of what happened before and after the Steam release. From all the work that went into the commercial version of the game. To how the lives of Zach, Tarn and their families, changed forever after launch. WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX65...

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  • dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2025

    Our Dwarf Fortress series continues with a look into the 16 year freeware era of the game, the community that grew around it, and the real life circumstances that pushed the brothers to create a commercial version. WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNe...

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  • David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    Finally going over the patch notes for Nethack 5.0 and being starkly reminded that, as hilarious as Dwarf Fortress patch notes often are, a game that's been in development for 20 years has nothing on game that's been in development for 40 as far as sheer batshittery goes.

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  • gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2026

    Every time people ask me what my favorite game is I tell them Dwarf Fortress, a game made by two guys over a period of decades as kind of an art project and in this moment I am thinking about Tarn and Zach

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  • Bramblefix, daughter of the cosmos @bramblefix.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    between Dwarf Fortress, Rings of Power and my DnD game I am absolutely insanely dwarfbrained right now!!!! I simply can't get enough!!!! How come we're overflowing with elf sex comics and I can't find any dwarf sex comics!!!!!

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  • Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2025

    This deep-dive video into a legendary session of the game Dwarf Fortress is great but at the end of 70 minutes of storytelling I still have not even a basic idea of how the game Dwarf Fortress works or is played, every screengrab is pure gibberish www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI1U...

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  • mcc @dryad.technologyBluesky · Feb 12, 2026

    Dwarf Fortress is still an amazing game www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/dw...

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  • Kruggsmash @kruggsmash.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    A night creature from the game Dwarf Fortress. It's description reads: "A large hairy humanoid. It has four long, spiral horns and it stamps the ground and snorts. Its silver hair is patchy. Now you will know why you fear the night." #dwarffortress #monster #drawing

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  • gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    Dwarf Fortress is a perfect video game

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  • Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    I'm somewhat stressing out from my game taking 1-1.5 years more to make than initially planned, and then I occasionally stumble upon some new release which was 8 years in the making, and then I read a blog post about a game started 14 years ago ...and then there's Dwarf Fortress

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  • Convolver @convolver.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2024

    - Tarn is taken by a fey mood! - Tarn screams “I must have a C++ compiler!” - Tarn works furiously! - Tarn Adams, game designer, has created Dwarf Fortress, a video game! - This is a video game. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It menaces with spikes of incomprehensible UI.

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  • Fangamer @fangamer.comBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    A fully illustrated guidebook, a desk mat, and an [optionally] spiked hoodie—all part of our official Dwarf Fortress collection. www.fangamer.com/collections/...

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  • VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2026

    Have you MET an animal in Dwarf Fortress? This is the most believable thing this game has ever done.

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  • Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.comBluesky · Apr 21, 2025

    Dwarf Fortress hit a huge new milestone on Steam, Noclip documentary now completed #DwarfFortress #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming

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  • /noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    This month on the Noclip Patron Show we show clips of our docs on Disco Elysium, Dwarf Fortress and an upcoming series exploring specific aspects of game dev. Also, the mythical Hades Blu Ray returns... www.patreon.com/posts/disco-...

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  • Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.comBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    You will like our indie game if you played these games: 🗡 Kenshi ⛏ Dwarf Fortress 🏡 The Sims 💰 The Guild

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  • ecta foole @ectafoole.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    Last week I tried to stream a new Dwarf Fortress in the hit indie game Dwarf Fortress but my mom's internet wasn't having it. Now that I'm back home, I've got a hankerin to fire up Dwarf Fortress and make a brand new Dwarf Fortress

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  • MKSchmidt @mkschmidt30.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2025

    Just started playing Dwarf Fortress again. I never got very far in this game but I think I may do better this time…

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  • gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    Dwarf Fortress is a comedy game

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  • DisgustingFilm @disgustingfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2025

    Popular indie game Dwarf Fortress is receiving a movie adaptation with Jake Gyllenhaal cast as @./ (Soure: tinyurl.com/3b985j8f)

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  • rowan kaiser @rowan.monsterBluesky · Apr 13, 2026

    So a mom game isn't just a game about building, it's *specifically* about building environments with agents who might behave in unexpected ways and being prepared for the good or the bad. Mom games are Dwarf Fortress, Oxygen Not Included, RimWorld, even Impressions city-builders

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  • Jax O'Lantern, Bimbo Reprobate 🎃✨️ @rufflejax.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    operant conditioning my fuckbuddy to get hard every time I play Dwarf Fortress by referring to both the game and my cunt as "tantrum hole"

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  • walking mirage @wolf.observerBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    it's so wonderful that when mathematicians are driven to create a video game you get things like Dwarf Fortress and Fractal Block World

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  • whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Can you be inspired by a game you never played? (Tenebrarium is Tamagotchi + Dwarf Fortress, kinda) #indiegame #tamagotchi #simulator

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  • Cheburashka @leshij.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2025

    There’s not much point in harassing someone who thinks “develop Dwarf Fortress” or “move to Cyprus” are practical responses to game industry layoffs.

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  • Medium Dave Lillywhite @cursed.monsterBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    To be fair, Dwarf Fortress has had its share of game-breaking bugs, too, but it’s still worth it

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  • Boldtransdev @boldtransdev.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2026

    I love that Dwarf Fortress is *the game* that seems to bring out true madness in the people that get deeply into it

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  • Brossentia/Digby @ Home @brossentia.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2025

    Holy crap, my kobolds in Dwarf Fortress made possibly the most expensive thing I've seen in the game wtf

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  • Jax O'Lantern, Bimbo Reprobate 🎃✨️ @rufflejax.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2026

    New Dwarf Fortress game in the world of the Oracular Planes: welcome to Veilmachine, a settlement on the beach comprised primarily of butchers and glassmakers.

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  • Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    This isn't a bug, it's something that makes the game extremely relatable to the kind of people who play Dwarf Fortress.

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  • VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2025

    So Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode is functionally unplayable right now because game ticks take about ten seconds in towns

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  • 🏴Yon🏴 @4threset.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2025

    Dwarf Fortress is A Game

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  • Medium Dave Lillywhite @cursed.monsterBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    Gently suggesting that Dwarf Fortress may actually be the game for you

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  • Mel_Fluff @melfluff.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2024

    Dwarf Fortress is likely the first real example of a video game masterwork.

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  • Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.comBluesky · Mar 17, 2024

    Attention: the best game ever, Dwarf Fortress, is on sale store.steampowered.com/app/975370/D... You can also still download Dwarf Fortress Classic for free though: www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

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  • Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.comBluesky · Nov 12, 2025

    Dwarf Fortress has the best and most legendary bugs of any game ever made.

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  • Balsam B'Grant Heat @balsam.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2024

    This could really mess up a game of Dwarf Fortress

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  • Thrinaga Battleheart 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @thrinagabheart.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    Alternatively, the Bowser mouth leads into a game of Dwarf Fortress

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  • (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2024

    This is why Dwarf Fortress is the only real game

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  • Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.comBluesky · Apr 24, 2024

    This is why Dwarf Fortress is the Best Game

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  • Florence @justflorence.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    It's so rare that you see someone actually attempt a game whose appeal lies in its simulation of a bunch of systems that're generally irrelevant to gameplay for no reason other than it's cool. Depressing that someone could see the appeal of Dwarf Fortress and go "I'll just use my tokens to do that".

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  • GameBrief @gamebrief.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    The games that hold their price for years and never go on sale tend to be the ones with communities that sustain themselves. Factorio, Dwarf Fortress paid, Noita. Players respect no-discount pricing when the game earns it. #indiegames #Steam

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  • 🦇 Murphy @mjosmurphy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2026

    As a Dwarf Fortress player, I went with Cassiterite, the only mineral in the game that yields tin glaze for pottery

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  • Weird Dudes @weirddudes.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2026

    I love how the water works on Dwarf Fortress, lol, so I decided to try creating a simulation of it in the weekend wondering if this might turn into a game #dwarffortress #gamedev #godotengine

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  • Clever Mia @readvesna.comBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    Around this same time I got to play Portal and Portal 2, which I loved obviously, and once I got my own PC (because I had expressed an interest in learning 3D art, fun fact) Dwarf Fortress became my most played game pretty quickly

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  • PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    So, you know how I was talking about Dwarf Fortress the other day? I gave it a try, I'm a handful of hours in, and I don't know if it's really for me. There's too much micromanaging going on. I'd prefer a more, shall we say, /strategic/ style dwarf settlement game. Something a bit more automated.

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  • Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    I first discovered Dwarf Fortress in 2008, when it was 2 years into development. I haven't really played it since those early days, but I've still had a lot of joy over the years just reading the change notes, hearing about stories generated by the game, etc.

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  • Morgan Eilish 🧡💜 @morganeilish.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    My bf's favourite game is Dwarf Fortress. Occasionally I'll ask him what his dwarves are getting up to and he will say the most unhinged nonsense I have ever heard. In his last game the glass blower crashed out cuz no nickel ingots, stripped, & ran around naked & screaming til she starved to death

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  • The Patware Show🥛 @patware.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    Thanks everyone for coming out! We've already cleared out the first three goals, locking us in for a game with Bisho, organizing a Gartic Phone collab, and Lita trying to teach me to play Dwarf Fortress in vengeance for me screaming at her about Monster Hunter constantly!

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  • Cat @eyeofacat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    A thing I love about Dwarf Fortress is the amount of detail the game generates for everything. Behold the cougar who is ‘not a private person’, the elk bird who ‘tends to be passive in discussions’ & the carnosaur who is ‘quite comfortable with others that have a different appearance or culture’.

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  • War on Christmas Veteran @sfaccountant.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    There's already a game for that, it's called Dwarf Fortress. I play Rimworld because Dwarf Fortress is TOO obnoxious and finicky in its mechanics (and getting the dwarfs to fight is a total pain).

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  • Vyctorian 🏳‍🌈 @vyctorian.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    Reading through Dwarf Fortress "Creature tokens" on the wiki, under the modding section. Do I have any intention of modding the game right now? No. Have I even played recently? Also , no. And yet still, I am here.

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  • Sam.ICE.is.scary.enough🎃Machkovech @samred.comBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    #paxwest "I somehow got roped into playing my first-ever game of @bloodontheclocktower.com alongside the co-designer of Dwarf Fortress" is a very PAX West sentence to type out

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  • Ukobach @uk0bach.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    Okay, but a very long, highly successful game of Dwarf Fortress is gonna impress me. Also, all Presidential candidates should have to publicly win a game of Civilization on Emperor level, or else they aren't eligible.

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  • Adrian Hallasera 🔞 @imadrian98.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    Dwarf Fortress is a hell of a game lol

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  • Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    Dwarf Fortress is an awesome game, maybe my favorite, and I will never play it

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