Reception
Dwarf Fortress has received wide press coverage for an independent two-man project of its type, and Tarn Adams has given a large number of interviews related to the game, appearing in interviews with Gamasutra, The Escapist, and HASTAC, as well as garnering mention on the Eurogamer website. Dwarf Fortress was featured in the December 2006 and July 2011 issues of PC Gamer as well as in an article in the New York Times, and has been featured in issues of Games for Windows, PC Gamer UK, and PC PowerPlay. It has received the Roguelike of the Year award from ASCII Dreams and the Indy PC game of the year from the Gamers With Jobs community.
Reviews of Dwarf Fortress have focused on its deep content and rich gameplay; Gamasutra explained that the scope of the game "defies belief", while PC Gamer commented that it produces "some of the most amazing stories in gaming". Cracked.com has summarized the game as " a collection of absent-minded, depressed, alcoholic midgets with beards into building an underground house in the middle of a hostile wilderness." However, reviewers have also been quick to comment on the game's quirky interface, buggy state, and most of all, its primitive ASCII graphics, although some see it as just part of the package. One reviewer argued that the text-based display actually adds to the game by forcing the player to mentally visualize game events, thus making the game more immersive.
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