From Press Release:
MONTREAL, JANUARY 23 2025 – Developer Bay 12 Games and publisher Kitfox Games invite you to become the Chosen in Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode, a new and adventurous way to play the legendary simulation game, out now on Steam and Itch.Io! To celebrate, a new trailer highlighting Fortress Mode and Adventure Mode is also out now.
Dwarf Fortress is also currently on sale on Steam and Itch for 20% off, alongside other fine Kitfox wares. This is the lowest discount Bay 12 and Kitfox intend to offer for a ‘long while,’ so now is the time to pick up the game if you’ve been curious about poking around the deepest simulation ever created.
The primary appeal of Dwarf Fortress is its deep simulation, but until now, that was limited to being viewed as a colony. Adventure Mode now allows you to create a character in that simulated world and — well, as a pure sandbox, what you do is up to you! But a new Chosen difficulty allows your character to be guided by the hand of a (generated, simulated) deity, according to the temple and priests in a region. The worlds of Dwarf Fortress are now yours to explore.
Adventure Mode highlights:
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Go anywhere! Explore any civilization, earn a reputation, and recruit followers to join you
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Experience your fortress and the simulation in a new, more embodied way
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Explore mythical dungeons to find magical items, artifacts, and fill your quest journal
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Hints of mythology and magic as a start of future simulation enrichment to come
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An additional hour of music, presented as a second volume of the original soundtrack
“Since the beginning of the project in 2002, Adventure Mode has been part of Dwarf Fortress,” says Dwarf Fortress co-creators Tarn and Zach Adams.
“In our earliest conception of the game you were meant to lose… lose for a reason! Even before your fortresses existed in a huge procedurally generated world, they were destroyed and became haunted ruins you could explore in an RPG-style adventure.”
“Years later, as our fantasy worlds have grown and become more complex, the Adventure Mode experience is so much more impressive. Now the entire world is connected in ways you can actually see. Visit the far off lands that send caravans to your fortresses, or seek out and slay the monsters that have troubled your dwarves before. The extensive combat system only viewed from afar in Fortress Mode is now yours to use to inflict violence on your enemies… or if you choose, travel the world and recite poetry to a room full of wombat men. The Circle is complete, Chosen One. Go forth and Adventure!”
To celebrate the release, Kitfox is posting tutorial videos on their YouTube channel today, as well as a cover of Strike the Earth by Sukuba Ensemble.
About Dwarf Fortress
The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that’s ever been created, built over 20 years as a lifetime project by two brothers. Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world… or play as a wandering hero in Adventure Mode!
For more information on Dwarf Fortress, visit https://www.bay12games.com/
Find the game on Steam
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About Bay 12 Games
Bay 12 Games is primarily made up of brothers Tarn Adams and Zach Adams, who created Dwarf Fortress among other titles. They have been working on the game as a lifetime project, and say they “will never stop”.
Learn more about Bay 12 Games at https://www.bay12games.com/
About Kitfox Games
A scrappy Canadian games studio focused on creating dangerous, intriguing worlds to explore. The Kitfox co-founders are Tanya X. Short (Designer) and Xin Ran Liu (Artist). They started working together in 2013 on Shattered Planet with the gracious support of the Execution Labs incubator, and officially incorporated in 2014. Currently working on: Streets of Fortuna, Loose Leaf: A Tea Witch Simulator. Games previously developed: Boyfriend Dungeon, Moon Hunters, Lucifer Within Us, The Shrouded Isle… and more! Published: Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Ostranauts, Six Ages, Pupperazzi... and more!
For more information on Kitfox Games, visit http://www.kitfoxgames.com.
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