Best Games Like Dwarf Fortress for LinuxTop City Building & Survival Games like Dwarf Fortress

There are many alternatives to Dwarf Fortress for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is RimWorld. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Veloren. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Dwarf Fortress and 11 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Dwarf Fortress are Stonehearth, Oxygen Not Included, Space Haven and Kingdoms and Castles.

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  1. RimWorld icon
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    RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.

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  2. Veloren icon
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    Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.

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  3. Stonehearth icon
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    Stonehearth is a game of exploration and survival in an epic fantasy setting. Build your town, care for your hearthlings, and defend against marauding invaders.

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  4. Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Manage your colonists and help them dig, build and maintain a subterranean asteroid base. You'll need water, warmth, food, and oxygen to keep them alive, and even more than that to keep them happy.

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  5. Space Haven icon
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    Space Haven is a spaceship colony sim, where you manage resources and crew members in order to build and keep your spaceship. Then you'll be able to explore the universe with rewards and perils. Website: https://bugbyte.fi/spacehaven/.

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  6. A medieval city building game where you construct castles to protect your peasants from a living and dangerous world.

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  7. Build and manage a Maximum Security Prison. As the sun casts it’s early morning rays on a beautiful patch of countryside the clock starts ticking. You’ve got to crack on and build a holding cell to detain the job­ lot of maximum security prisoners that are trundling to your...

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  8. In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives.

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  9. Castle Story icon
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    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little characters called "Bricktrons".

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  10. In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the Kingdom. Your rule is not absolute, however, as you face subjects that are independent and stubborn. They will need a great deal of persuasion before they carry out your wishes.

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  11. Towns icon
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    In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

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