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Dwarf Fortress

Bay 12 Games · Kitfox Games · 2022-12-06

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 06, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 19, 2023 (Linux)

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

1,109
playing now
95%
positive of 31k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79
twitch viewers (latest)
84/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (32 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

1,109 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,109 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,523 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~190/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (15,172 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 18,161 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-26

Estimated sales: 629k–1.4M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 31,428 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $23.99 at Steam (2024-05-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 16 of 31 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
15k15k20222026Week of 2022-12-01: 14,565 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 607 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2,059 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 168 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 716 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 413 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 264 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 216 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2,358 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 299 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 285 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 252 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 253 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 224 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 512 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 394 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.3k02026-08-06 21:00 — 1,021 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 639 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 723 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 1,067 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 774 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 859 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 1,254 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 810 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 980 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 1,316 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 682 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 740 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 1,039 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 666 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 728 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 960 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 623 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 765 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 1,314 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 753 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 552 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 890 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 813 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 894 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 755 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 476 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 866 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 890 players2026-08-30 16:00 — 1,109 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.002015-01-012026-08-132015-01-01 — best price $0.002023-01-30 — best price $29.992023-06-12 — best price $26.992023-07-13 — best price $29.992023-10-20 — best price $26.992023-11-10 — best price $29.992023-11-29 — best price $26.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-02-15 — best price $25.492024-03-04 — best price $29.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-04-11 — best price $25.492024-05-09 — best price $23.992024-06-15 — best price $26.992024-06-27 — best price $25.492024-07-25 — best price $25.492024-09-02 — best price $29.992024-10-28 — best price $29.992024-12-04 — best price $29.992024-12-19 — best price $23.992025-01-30 — best price $29.992025-03-24 — best price $23.992025-05-02 — best price $29.992025-06-27 — best price $23.992025-08-14 — best price $29.992025-09-29 — best price $23.992025-11-10 — best price $29.992025-12-10 — best price $23.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-03-09 — best price $23.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-05-07 — best price $23.992026-06-09 — best price $23.992026-06-25 — best price $23.992026-08-10 — best price $29.992026-08-13 — best price $23.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

30322026-08-26 22:34 — 303 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 75 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 60 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 149 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 121 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 16 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 167 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 196 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 119 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 74 viewers2026-08-28 06:34 — 99 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 112 viewers2026-08-28 12:34 — 96 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 17 viewers2026-08-28 18:34 — 120 viewers2026-08-28 21:34 — 152 viewers2026-08-29 00:34 — 37 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 27 viewers2026-08-29 06:34 — 77 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 86 viewers2026-08-29 12:35 — 4 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 20 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 143 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 16 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 51 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 156 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 150 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 43 viewers2026-08-30 16:35 — 74 viewers2026-08-30 17:34 — 79 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

DwarfFantasySandboxBuildingStrategySurvivalColony SimManagementOpen WorldRogue-like

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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