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What mainstream game is Dwarf Fortress like?
Hyndis:
Dungeon Keeper and Evil Genius.
Dungeon Keeper, Evil Genius, and Dwarf Fortress really are the only 3 games in this entire genre.
Firehound:
a lot like settlers seven... if it were any more like it, Toady would probably be collecting royalties from em. Of course DF actually has a functioning military that requires a little more strategy then 'spam cannons and horsemen'
Dave Mongoose:
--- Quote from: Hyndis on May 11, 2010, 11:21:43 am ---Dungeon Keeper and Evil Genius.
Dungeon Keeper, Evil Genius, and Dwarf Fortress really are the only 3 games in this entire genre.
--- End quote ---
The Wheel of Time had a multiplayer game mode that was quite similar - like capture the flag except you laid out traps and guards to defend your base.
Mr Doctor:
Gameplay wise... abit of Dungeon Keeper, Settlers, Evil Genius and all that.
It feels like the dwarves of Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura and Dwarf Fortress are similar to eachother.
They are similar in the following ways:
-Every single dwarf has a beard, and in Arcanum a dwarf would sooner kill himself than remove his beard.
-Hate Elves, because where Elves in Arcanum are innately magical, all dwarves dislike magic (Every single spell costs twice as much fatigue to cast for a dwarf.), they don't exactly kill eachother... but they just simply dislike each other (Which causes fun dialogue to happen when you enter the Wheel Clan as an Elf and they act as if they would sooner kill you than let you roam about there, and when asking about the dwarven philosophy of the Stone and the Shape their current King severely doubts your ability to understand it because you're an Elf, >:(, also, their former King apparently had an axe that did +Damage towards Elves)
-Living in fortresses built into the mountain, and what the shit the home of the Wheel Clan is confusing due to its large size.
-Dangerous mines, the Wheel Clan has cordoned off an entire mining area it used to have due to golems, golems, golems and granite rats, going down there equals death in most cases.
-All dwarves enjoy feats of engineering and building technological things.
-They also enjoy alcohol, plenty of it.
Also, the dwarven god in Arcanum can bestow a blessing of strength upon you if you sacrifice some lava rock to him.
Note that you can be a Dwarf in it as well, I just haven't tried it (Too busy being a pesky human with some fancy Electro-Platemail, a Chapeau Of Magnetic Inversion, Hand Cannon and sometimes Bronwyck's Gun)
Rex_Nex:
May I also suggest the similarities between DF and The Incredible Machine
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