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Dwarf Fortress hits 800k copies sold, generating over 1 million wishlists on Steam (gameworldobserver.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not a roguelike. There are two game modes. There's a colony manager (similar to Rim World, in fact it inspired Rim World and they first announced it on the DF forums), and there's also an RPG style game, except it's not like any RPG you've played before. It gives you absolute freedom, and there's also no main quest or anything. The game is being updated soon, which will be a big update for the RPG mode, and finally brining that to the Steam version, which has the graphics rather than ASCII (ASCII version is available for free and still updated).

I recommend checking out Kruggsmash if you want to learn about what Fortress Mode (colony manager) is all about, and BlindIRL for general DF news and information.

It got a lot to learn, but it's not too bad if you just know that you'll lose your first few fortresses and that's good. It's part of the learning process. You'll hopefully live the game, and welcome to the community!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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