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2022PCSteam Deck playable94 % positive30.49 €

You build and manage a dwarven fortress in a deeply simulated world where every dwarf has its own personality and every system interacts. Watch your civilization decline and use the lessons for your next attempt.

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  • Deep systems to master
  • Building and crafting
  • Economy and management
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The closest matches for Dwarf Fortress are Odd Realm, Rise to Ruins and RimWorld. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Dwarf Fortress special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Odd Realm

92 %Match

2024PCSteam Deck playable84 % positive19.50 €

Brings what grabs you about Dwarf Fortress: a sandbox with your own goals, building and crafting as well as economy and management.

A pixel-art colony simulation in a procedurally generated fantasy world where you guide settlers to build, explore and survive threats. Reminiscent of Dwarf Fortress but more approachable, with a quirky sense of humor.

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Rise to Ruins

Building and crafting

A tough village builder where you act as a godlike force guiding settlers and defending against nightly monster waves. It blends resource management with 90s-style real-time strategy.

RimWorld

Sandbox with your own goals

A colony sim where an AI storyteller turns raids, famines and your settlers' personal dramas into unique, often darkly funny emergent stories. Its deep simulation and per-colonist management make every run unpredictable.

Songs of Syx

Sandbox with your own goals

An extremely detailed city-building and strategy sim where you rule a city of thousands, manage trade and diplomacy, and fight large-scale battles against rival realms.

KeeperRL

Building and crafting

You play an evil wizard who builds a dungeon, trains minions, sets traps and fends off invading heroes. Its mix of Dwarf Fortress-style real-time base building and roguelike adventure sets it apart.

Gnomoria

Sandbox with your own goals

A Dwarf Fortress-style colony management sandbox where you lead a small band of gnomes, dig deep, craft goods and defend your settlement as it grows into a kingdom.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Sandbox with your own goals

An enormously deep open-source survival roguelike in a post-apocalyptic New England where you juggle hunger, illness and zombies, build vehicles and shelters, and carve out your own goals with no fixed objective.

Oxygen Not Included

Sandbox with your own goals

A deep colony sim inside an asteroid where you keep your Duplicants alive by managing oxygen, heat, food and waste through interlocking physics-like systems. Spectacular failures are part of the fun, often with dark humor.

Elin

Sandbox with your own goals

Elin is the successor to the cult roguelike Elona: a huge sandbox world of adventuring, survival, crafting and home-building where you can do almost anything. It offers deep character growth, companions and a quirky tone.

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