Jeffrey Parkin (he/him) has been writing video game guides for Polygon for almost seven years. He has learned to love just about every genre of game that exists. It’s a deep simulator.

“Dwarf Fortress” is one of the most important video games of all time. It’s part of the permanent collection in the Museum of Modern Art. Many of your favorite games are inspired by ...

After years of anticipation and dogged work, the Dwarf Fortress Steam edition has arrived. That's right, you can go play the legendary city builder right now on Steam, with graphics and a mouse ...

Dwarf Fortress hasn't been on Steam all that long, but it's already proven to be a colossal success. The colony management game has really been decades in the making, and in that time there have ...

It's finally happened. Dwarf Fortress, the dazzlingly complex colony sim that was free for almost 20 years before becoming a massive hit on Steam, has sold 1 million copies since it tunnelled onto ...

Back in December 2022, I wrote in our Dwarf Fortress review that its Steam release is "a worthy revision of the legendary settlement sim." And I stand by that. But there was something missing ...

All that and more is par for the course in Dwarf Fortress, perhaps the most cult in the pantheon of cult-classic video games, has been generating stories of triumph and tragedy for nearly 20 years ...

“Dwarf Fortress” is a game that’s garnered a reputation for being hard. However, it’s not that the features themselves are that hard to understand; it’s more a matter of the game’s ...

All my animals are dying and my master craftswoman is depressed. Such is the state of my current Dwarf Fortress run. I’ve accidentally made a civilization of drunken vegans, too, since I can’t ...

After nine of public beta access, hugely influential colony sim Dwarf Fortress' roguelike Adventure Mode is getting its full Steam release on 23rd January. Adventure Mode, if you're unfamiliar ...

Though you could always go on adventures in Dwarf Fortress, with the game’s Adventure Mode expansion entering public beta today, you can now sally forth with a full complement of updated graphics.