Best Games Like Dwarf Fortress Top City Building Games like Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is described as 'Single-player fantasy simulator. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The world is procedurally generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, multitude of towns, bodies' and is a popular city building game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Dwarf Fortress for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Steam, Mac, Linux and Wine apps. The best Dwarf Fortress alternative is RimWorld. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Veloren or eSoclife. Other Dwarf Fortress like games are Gnomoria, Stonehearth, Banished and Oxygen Not Included.
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- 35 likes22 RimWorld alternatives
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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RimWorld VS Dwarf Fortress
Is RimWorld a good alternative to Dwarf Fortress? - 19 likes15 Gnomoria alternatives
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom!.
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DiscontinuedNo updates since release, also see Steam reviews: http://store.steampowered.com/app/224500/
Gnomoria VS Dwarf Fortress
Is Gnomoria a good alternative to Dwarf Fortress?Comments about Gnomoria as an Alternative to Dwarf Fortress
Gnomoria is basically dwarf fortress with better graphics.You have to grow food,make an army to defend yourself,and make a home for your gnomes.However this game lacks some features that dwarf fortress has and this game can become quite boring after awhile.
3While I prefer Rimworld as a Dwarf Fortress alternative, this is closer to DF. The world, the gnomes, the z-levels, all these make Gnomoria one of the best Dwarf Fortress clones. However, it's not being updated anymore, and it kinda feels like a less complex version of DF, but with better graphics and UI
0It is the best alternative - but that said it has only about 30% of the depth and breadth of DF. And DF is getting deeper and broader every few months whereas Gnomoria development stopped almost 4 years ago. There is a fan reboot of Gnomoria called ingnomia that is still being worked on however at the time of writing this it is still very fa short of playable in for anything more than an hour or two. Dwarf Fortress is unique. All the other games here are very (VERY) much simpler.
1 - 44 likes20 Veloren alternatives
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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Veloren VS Dwarf Fortress
Is Veloren a good alternative to Dwarf Fortress? - 7 likes46 Stonehearth alternatives
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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Stonehearth VS Dwarf Fortress
Is Stonehearth a good alternative to Dwarf Fortress? - 19 likes46 Banished alternatives
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.
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Banished VS Dwarf Fortress
Is Banished a good alternative to Dwarf Fortress?Comments about Banished as an Alternative to Dwarf Fortress
Banished is much more of a city building game. It lacks the feature of micro managing individuals and even if it was implemented, you just end up with too many people after 2 years to even make that feasible.
Basically, think of sim city, but with the difficulty of Dwarf Fortress (not exactly, but almost)
2Dwarf Fortress aims to simulate life to the point where it's more of a story than a game. Banished is very much "a game", and shares more in common with titles such as Civilization or Sim City.
0 - 5 likes8 Oxygen Not Included alternatives
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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Oxygen Not Included VS Dwarf Fortress
Is Oxygen Not Included a good alternative to Dwarf Fortress? - 20 likes13 Dungeon Keeper 2 alternatives
Discover your evil side as you build your own underground kingdom. Carve out a living, breathing world and attract a host of devilish creatures to swell the ranks of your dark hoards. Form an alliance with the Horned Reaper and expand your empire in your quest to reach the...
DiscontinuedDiscontinued but available at GoG: https://www.gog.com/game/dungeon_keeper_2
Dungeon Keeper 2 VS Dwarf Fortress
Is Dungeon Keeper 2 a good alternative to Dwarf Fortress?Comments about Dungeon Keeper 2 as an Alternative to Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a simulator, Dungeon Keeper 2 is real time strategy
0This game is a harsh reminder that cause a game was once great, that it will have a game just good or better as its predecessor.
-1 - 12 likes15 Evil Genius alternatives
Build a secret base, gain notoriety by completing daring missions, repel the forces of justice in real-time combat, and develop evil super-weapons to complete your nefarious master plan. As a malevolent mastermind bent on achieving global domination, through the construction of...
DiscontinuedThe game was released on September 28, 2004. It can be still bought from GOG.com
Evil Genius VS Dwarf Fortress
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Comments about RimWorld as an Alternative to Dwarf Fortress
Nowhere near as difficult of a learning curve, but has a lot of the same mechanics, with added futuristic sci-fi events. Can micromanage and prioritize down to a tee, main gripe with it is there's UP/DOWN to the world, so you can't build towers or bases deep underground
Rimworld is just a perfect game. There's a lot of complexity, yet it's still way more accessible than DF. It's hard to say how good this game is with just words unless it's a full 4 hours speach, so I'll just say I could marry this game.
Just awesome world, better graphics and "personally" in the characters. Super game.