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 ...

When it comes to 4X, the first two x are the best x, aren't they? The peeling away of mystery, the bringing of light to the world - rolling back the fog of war to expose terrain, neighbours and sweet, ...

“What is Dwarf Fortress?” is not an easy question to answer. Sure, there’s a quick answer — Dwarf Fortress is a colony simulator game — but that glosses over so much of what Dwarf Fortress is. It’s a ...

Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex computer games in the history of computer games. How complex? In the game's discussion forum, one player asserts that after 120 failed games, he can finally ...