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Friction Burns
Promotional art for Dwarf Fortress, Featuring a trio of dwarves decked out for dungeoneering, with horned helmets, a torch, mining equipment and weapons, heading towards a fungi forest and an ominous fortress

When Dwarves Won’t Do What You Want Them To

By Ruth Cassidy • February 7th, 2023

Friction is FUN.

Past Presence
A top-down map from the videogame Dwarf Fortress showing the labyrinthine halls of a massive underground cavern.

Recursion

By Emily Price • January 26th, 2023

Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.

The McMaster Files

Putting the “U” in Trauma

By Jason McMaster • July 12th, 2019

In the vein of Dwarf Fortress and Rim World, Barotrauma players make their own stories. And an uncanny number of them end in death.

The McMaster Files

RimWorld and the Iffy Prospect of Early Access

By Jason McMaster • November 13th, 2018

RimWorld is one of the handful of games Jason considers to be the best of this decade, a game many people tried to create but failed – the Dwarf Fortress-like.

The McMaster Files

Kumite

By Jason McMaster • November 25th, 2016

“When I say survival, I mean making your way through a virtual world where you need to seek shelter and to eat and sleep. There are a few games that, as always, stand out.”

Learning to Play

By Gus Mastrapa • July 13th, 2012

Gus Mastrapa thinks trying to learn Dwarf Fortress is like climbing into the cockpit of a 747. Sometimes there’s nothing wrong with the familiar.

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