“What is Dwarf Fortress?” is not an easy question to answer. Sure, there’s a quick answer — Dwarf Fortress is a colony simulator game — but that glosses over so much of what Dwarf Fortress is. It’s a ...

Tarn and Zach Adams, the brothers behind Dwarf Fortress, have gone on record describing the game as essentially an open-ended story generator, giving players a system built to provide a limitless ...