Steam reviews

Very Positive

95% of 31,008 reviews

Critic scores

Metacritic

Generally favorable

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DWARF FORTRESS

Dwarf Fortress has 900 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 900 and its all-time peak is 900. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Bay 12 GamesPUB · Kitfox Games2022

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Niche but breathing. Best chance to find others at peak hours.
Currently at 100% of the all-time peak of 900 players.
Last updated 5 weeks ago: Diplomacy Improvements + 20th Anniversary 🙌 Dwarf Fortress Patch 53.13.

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900

24h peak

900

24h change

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

900

24h peak

900

All-time

900

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

Watching now

200

Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo

No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.