REVEALED: Tarn adams | Vintage Vibes

Dwarf Fortress co-creator says his life as a millionaire is 'basically like reattaining what my parents could do with regular jobs'

Tarn Adams lives in a house now. I bet that's nice.

PC Gamer · Sep 2

Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'

Much to consider.

PC Gamer · Sep 1

Dwarf Fortress creator says we have a natural lean towards human-made stories, 'but we're all going to be very sorely tested in the coming years' by AI

Lie, robot.

PC Gamer · Sep 1

"Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies," declare the latest Dwarf Fortress patch notes, starting 2026 in rare form

Never change, Dwarf Fortress – well, actually, please keep changing just enough to continue giving us these ridiculous patch notes

GamesRadar · Jan 7

Dwarf Fortress' Siege Update is out now, renewing Bay 12 Games' quest to create a simulation more complex than life itself

Revamps how enemies attack your fortress, and how you can defend it.

PC Gamer · Nov 4, 2025

Dwarf Fortress is getting a siege update in November with goblin battering rams and defense-destroying troll engineers that'll dismantle over a decade of dwarven siege strategy

The new crossbow emplacement turrets should help, though.

PC Gamer · Oct 16, 2025

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

PC Gamer · Oct 7, 2025

Dwarf Fortress just made it easier for modders to add their own procedural creatures, items, curses, and more: 'All of these things have been hard-coded in Dwarf Fortress, inaccessible to modders. Now the algorithms and data are available'

My productivity has never been more endangered.

PC Gamer · Jul 22, 2025

After 15 years of busted marksdwarves, Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams says archers will finally refill their ammo 'instead of leaping over walls and clubbing people with their crossbows'

Just trust me when I say this is a really big deal.

PC Gamer · Jul 8, 2025

Dwarf Fortress sells 1 million copies on Steam, so now Bay 12 Games can afford that 'little party' it planned

But the work continues.

PC Gamer · Apr 19, 2025