Dwarf Fortress
BANGER · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99. Typically $23.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $0.49/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 31,626
- Critics
- 91 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 60.6h
- To 100%
- 200h 3.3x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 40 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $23.99 May 2024
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 609 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, RimWorld ($34.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Against the Storm ($29.99, scores 85).
More about Dwarf Fortress
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 25 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 4,574 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 60.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 200, 3.3 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Dwarf Fortress is less a game you play than a complicated machine you gradually learn to interfere with. At first, the difficulty mostly comes from the interface and from not knowing which of the games many systems you have accidentally neglected. You will spend twenty minutes figuring out how to perform an apparently simple task, confidently unpause the game, and discover that half your fortress is dying because...
2 more reviews
This game is like, imagine if factorio, but none of your machines followed orders.
Apparently I bought this to read patch notes randomly when it updates and be amazed. Maybe also to not lose faith in gaming and be reminded of all its ridiculous creative possibilities. Might actually play it at some point.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB of VRAM: Intel HD 3000 GPU / AMD HD 5450 / Nvidia 9400 GT, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Dwarf Fortress scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/975370/dwarf-fortressReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.