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PLATFORMS: Windows, OS X
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DEVELOPED BY: Bay 12 Games
DATE ADDED: Sep 10, 2008
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Description:

Do you know how GTA is an 'open world' style game? Bullsh*t. New York city? Try exploring an area the size of New York State. I introduce to you Dwarf Fortress. First, I will state that Dwarf Fortress is not for everyone. If you can let your imagination replace the sybolic graphics (personally, I think having representative graphics really adds to this particular game), and if you are patient enough with the interface you will be handsomely rewarded. Dwarf Fortress is one hell of an indie gem.

Here is a quote from somethingAweful: "Dwarf Fortress is one of the most open-ended games of all time. How many games do you know where you can watch a goblin try to steal a finely crafted crown, only to have his left kidney torn out by a wardog while a wrestler tears his arms off?"

I'll describe it as a bit like the sims meets dungeons and dragons x 10,000... seriously... The area of the game is more or less the size of a state and have it generate up to a 10,000 year history before you play - no joke. The depth of gameplay is beyond HUGE... you can carve the walls of your cave, plan for winter, set up a dinner table, or a burial ground, it snows, it rains, flowers bloom, you can hunt and be hunted... breed animals, and on and on. This game blew me away. You might click THIS link to get an idea for how deep this game is. If you have patience and imagination you might develop a debilitating addiction to Dwarf Fortress.



Here some video tutorials that helped me understand how to play Dwarf Fortress, (the following text was copied and cleaned up FROM THIS POST on the official forum. )

Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 01 - World Generation & Finding a site: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 02 - Preparing the Journey: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 03 - Understanding the DF world & Naming Dwarfs: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 04 - Mining and making beds: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 05 - Making Bedrooms, farms and stairs: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 06 - Dining rooms and dealing with refuse: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 07 - Brewing, labor options and dumping: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 08 - Bedrooms, crafting, trading: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 09 - Crafting and Hotkeys: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 10 - Migrants, Military and Requests: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 11 - Requests, Training and Specialized Stockpiles: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 12 - Migrants, Military and Requests: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 13 - Trading, Migrants and Defense: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 14 - Moods, crossbows, engraving: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 15 - Forging part 1: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 16 - Forging part 2, Fortifications: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 17 - Butchering & Cooking: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 18 - Leather & Wells: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 19 - Ambush & Coffins: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 20 - Siege & Traps: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part Extra 01 - Under Siege: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 21  - Nobles & managing: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 22 - End of Fort 1 &  3D view: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 23 - Start of fort 2, Magma pipe & Underground river: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 24 - Dragons & Sieges: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 25 - Water channeling & U-tubes: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 26 - Floodgates, Levers and Bridges.: Youtube HD
Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part Extra 02 - Traps and Goblins: Youtube HD

The videos up to 26 are now also available at the internet archive, streamable and downloadable.
If you want to download the videos, i recommend getting the cinepack version, they are the easiest ones to read the text in.