Create a character and freely roam the rich simulated world you have made a home in during your Fortress Mode save or start fresh in a newly generated world....
  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    7 months ago

    Eventually I’ll get around to trying Dwarf Fortress, right now it’s just a little intimidating lol

    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      341·
      7 months ago

      The best time to start dwarf fortress was 6 years ago.

      The second best time is in a few weeks, I dunno, Im just kinda busy this weekend but Ill probably have free time after the holidays, surely.

    • dumdum666@kbin.social
      181·
      7 months ago

      I bought the game when it was released but actually haven’t really played it yet. I just wanted to support this type of game because the gaming world needs more games that provide extremely high replay value and are complex at the same time.

    • Chobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      The steam version is actually pretty approachable. You can mostly learn all of the systems on your own time. You don’t have to interact with everything at first.

  • Boinkage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    7 months ago

    Exciting. Been playing DF for many years but never tried adventure mode because I didn’t want to learn another Byzantine set of controls.

    • jedibob5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      7 months ago

      I played CDDA for a while about 5 years ago. I really enjoyed it for a while, but after a certain point it seemed like the devs just got more interested in simulating fiddly minutiae to micromanage in excruciating detail over actually developing interesting new content or fixing existing broken systems.

      NPCs were an absolute mess around that time, but the devs were messing around with implementing individual vitamin and mineral meters and making installing bionics more fiddly.

    • dfc09@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Is it Linux only? What an interesting change of pace, if so

      Edit: DDA, I mean

      • Rose Thorne@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        You can get it on Windows, runs just fine.

        At least, I didn’t have to jump through any hoops to get it running on my machine, outside of deciding which tileset I wanted to go with.

    • hyperhopper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      As a dwarf fortress lover, I was never interested in either of those because you can’t “win”. For me the entire point of the hardship of a rogue like is to overcome the difficulty and reach the goal. I don’t want an endless roguelike sandbox, I want a challenge with a carrot at the specifically defined end.