Download size

How many GB is Dwarf Fortress?

0.49 GB

That makes it bigger than 15% of Role-playing (RPG) games we have measured.

The median Role-playing (RPG) game needs 3 GB; the largest tenth start at 30 GB.

Leave at least 6 GB free: games need headroom to unpack updates.

The figure is the storage Steam lists as required for this game, not a measured download.

In this complex construction/management/roguelike simulation, every generated world brings a unique challenge, whether it’s dwarves with their own simulated personalities or aquifers. Observe what makes your civilization fall into eventual decline, and learn for next time… until something else inevitably goes wrong. The combat model includes skills, body parts, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, pain, nausea, various poison effects, and much more. It’s difficult to convey the depth of the generation. Hundreds of animals and monsters, many of which are randomly created for each world, as well as generated poetry, musical forms, instruments, and dances for your dwarves to practice and perform. A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity, and air masses to create fronts, clouds, storms, and blizzards. Over two hundred rock and mineral types can appear, in their proper geological environments.