Dwarf Fortress – ASCII game

Last Updated on April 3, 2025

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress (Dwarf Fortress) is an ASCII game which includes both a roguelike adventure mode, and the more popular Dwarf Fortress Mode, which focuses on the creation and survival of a small dwarven settlement.

The game has a very steep learning curve, partly due to its ASCII graphics, but also due to the fact that it is an extremely complex game.

The game is freeware.

Features include:

• Fantastic gameplay and depth.
• Huge world to explore.
• Three major game modes and a non-game mode:
  • Dwarf Fortress Mode: In this mode you manage a number of dwarves whose task is to create a fortress.
  • Reclaim Fortress: Once you have created and abandoned or lost a fortress, you can take a band of military dwarves to fight the monsters that now inhabit it. If you succeed, the fortress is yours to play in once more, just like in the standard dwarf fortress mode.
  • Adventurer Mode: Explore the world in a fashion similar to Rogue, NetHack, or Angband, completing quests and killing monsters. In adventurer mode you can uncover details about your world’s legends. The player controls an individual dwarf, human, or elf. There is no goal apart from survival.
  • Legends: A way of reading through a world’s vast history:
    • Various historical maps, such as historical civilization expansion maps.
    • Entity listings.
    • Cities that civilizations have created.

Website: www.bay12games.com/dwarves
Support: Forums
Developer: Bay 12 Games
License: Freeware

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