Dwarf Fortress on Steam now officially available for Linux
Dwarf Fortress on Steam now officially available for Linux
Dwarf Fortress from Bay 12 Games and Kitfox Games has a fresh update available on Steam today, and this brings with it their official Native Linux support.
Well, time to buy then, to show support/demand for Linux gaming.
I just bought like a month ago, but I bought on a Linux machine, so maybe it counted.
Literally virtue signalling lmao no one asked
This game is a time machine. I open the game and find myself 3 hours in the future.
Play at your own risk.
Is the steam game still a fight against the frame rate or can I let a hundred cats breed in my fortress without restarting?
I bought the Steam release day 1 and it has worked great with Proton. I played a couple forts and had my fill. Now that the Linux version is out I might have to run another fort on it and see how it works.
Bought it day one and went in blind. Had my fun with it but I'm excited to dive back in when adventure mode is out.
Well I hate to say it but so far I can't get any audio from the game when running the Linux build.Of course as soon as I post it, I see a comment online saying that the sound properties were altered and need to be turned up much louder in the Options menu. I had to crank the game from 15% up to 100%, but it's there and working well so far!
Just looked it up, but it's quite expensive compared to the <£12 I usually spend on steam games (eg Terraria, Stardew Valley, Portal)
The game has been free for 16 years. This is the paid version to support the devs, literally because they're getting old and they have medical bills to pay.
While I typically love a good sale, some labors of love like this or factorio involve so much quality they warrant paying to support these wonderful developers
Looks like $26.99 is the lowest it's ever been on Steam.
My personal benchmark is $1/hr; so my question is, will I get 38 ($CAD) hours of enjoyment out of it eventually? I think I almost certainly will, this kind of game is pretty on brand for me.
Fair enough, everyone has their own preferences.
Great, it was working without issues on Gentoo and Steam Deck respectively before, too.
Love this game and its history !
And the people behind it seem genuinely awesome.
Do you think i'd like the game as a hardcore rimworld fan? I like how accessible RW is, yet very unforgiving, i like the amount of freedom i have and how important pawns are, how i can be on the brink of a game over for HOURS but still bounce back. Is this anything like that?
I dont know anyones who has played it and money's tight so asking for random's opinion
Give it a try: https://bay12games.com/dwarves/
Yes, this game is like that. This game also has more in depth simulation and mechanics, but it's way less accessible.
One major difference is that RimWorld has a narrator AI that will make up events for your colony to experience, while dwarf fortress tries to simulate a world and the events are most of the time the result of the world simulation.
This makes RimWorld more gamey, meaning dwarf fortress can kind of get stuck in weird or bad situations, and men in black won't magically show up to save your colony. But for many players that's part of the charm!
MiB never helped anyways, if he appeared the situation was bad enough to guarantee a New Game.
I found some vids and learned theres a FREE ver, so im def checking when i get back from work.
Saw some vids about the game during break, its quite different imo - losing pawns doesnt seem as painful as it is in rimworld and dont really like the "classic" fantasy style it has but again, i can check it for free.
One question tho, could you give an example of a 'weird/bad situation'?
I used it in Beta and it's amazingly stable. Love the game,too bad I don't have the time or patience to scratch all the cool features and am quite bad it it anyway.
Nobody's anything but 'quite bad at it'
Got it working on Linux Mint. I had to also install libsdl2-image-2.0-0 (with the recommended libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libopenal1 libsndfile1 libncursesw5)