Among the growing field of indie games, one truly stands alone: Dwarf Fortress. The unbelievably rich and complex and legendarily user-unfriendly title has been a free staple of awe and frustration ...

It's been a long, long time coming, but the legendary civilization management sim Dwarf Fortress at last has a Steam and Itch.io release date. It will be available on both storefronts on December 6th ...

Way back in the olden days of the IBM PC platform, the capability for bitmapped graphics only came in the form of expensive add-on graphics cards; the cheapest graphics card you could get displayed ...

Roguelike games are marked by four main things: randomly generated levels, permadeath , turn-based gameplay and (usually) ASCII graphics. They also usually have insane difficulty levels and absolutely ...

The original Mega Man series is well regarded as one of the most challenging sets of 2-D action titles around. What kept them outside the realm of hair pulling madness is the logic found within the ...

ASCII art holds a place near and dear to our hearts. If you were fortunate enough to get started in computers before there was such a thing as a graphical user interface (GUI) then you remember ...

Any news about Mac or Linux versions on Steam? I only see Windows support there, but http://bay12games.com/dwarves/ has versions for all three platforms... FWIW, a ...