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SERIES · ESTABLISHED 2006
Slaves to Armok
IndieRPGSimulationStrategy
COVERED BY 45 WRITERS
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Nate Crowley, Lincoln Carpenter, Rick Lane and 42 more across 8 outlets
Writers indexed
45
Entries
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Articles
63
Reviews
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Outlets
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Every game in the series
WRITER INDEX
Covering Slaves to Armok
Each writer's count reflects their lifetime indexed pieces on any Slaves to Armok entry.
LATEST COVERAGE
Across the series
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Ashley Schofield Rock Paper Shotgun·13 Oct
Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams is as tired of genAI in the industry as anyone else, and is pretty set on never using itnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Justin Wagner PC Gamer·5 Sept
Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams was amazed other devs had heard of his game the first time he went to a convention: 'I didn't know that anyone knew what we were doing'newsonDwarf Fortress
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·2 Sept
Dwarf Fortress co-creator says his life as a millionaire is 'basically like reattaining what my parents could do with regular jobs'newsonDwarf Fortress
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John Walker Kotaku·1 Sept
Dwarf Fortress Creator Calls Out One Of AI’s Biggest Issues: The Bosses Who Force Us To Use ItnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Lincoln Carpenter PC Gamer·1 Sept
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'newsonDwarf Fortress
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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell Rock Paper Shotgun·27 Aug
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates, extending to "the fundamental cosmological makeup of the universe"newsonDwarf Fortress
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Lincoln Carpenter PC Gamer·27 Aug
Holy crap, it's happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player's world its own procedural magic systemnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·23 Jul
The challenges of developing the colony sim, from Dungeon Keeper to Dwarf Fortress and beyondnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·8 Mar
CEO of Kitfox Games reckons hundreds of hours playing Civilization could be the secret to the Dwarf Fortress publisher's success: 'Maybe Kitfox wouldn't be as successful if I didn't know how to alternate between science trees and army defences'newsonDwarf Fortress
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Lincoln Carpenter PC Gamer·11 Feb
Dwarf Fortress forensic specialists blame mysterious case of spontaneous human combustion on a historical artifact that suddenly remembered it's four times hotter than the surface of the sunnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Rich Stanton PC Gamer·13 Jan
Dwarf Fortress issues a 'naked dwarf fix' after accidentally turning players' pride-and-joy into bearded nudist coloniesnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Lincoln Carpenter PC Gamer·8 Jan
Dwarf Fortress kicks off another year of bonkers patch notes with the saddest 6-word story ever told: 'Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies'newsonDwarf Fortress
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Dustin Bailey GamesRadar+·7 Jan
"Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies," declare the latest Dwarf Fortress patch notes, starting 2026 in rare formnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·4 Nov 2025
Dwarf Fortress' Siege Update is out now, renewing Bay 12 Games' quest to create a simulation more complex than life itselfnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Lincoln Carpenter PC Gamer·16 Oct 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 strategynewsonDwarf Fortress
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Lincoln Carpenter PC Gamer·22 Jul 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'newsonDwarf Fortress
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Lincoln Carpenter PC Gamer·8 Jul 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'newsonDwarf Fortress
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·19 Apr 2025
Dwarf Fortress sells 1 million copies on Steam, so now Bay 12 Games can afford that 'little party' it plannednewsonDwarf Fortress
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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell Rock Paper Shotgun·1 Apr 2025
Dwarf Fortress creator toys with the idea of an Elf FortressnewsonDwarf Fortress
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Lincoln Carpenter PC Gamer·31 Mar 2025
Dwarf Fortress dwarves are 'more human than human,' creator says: 'They're allowed to embody bigger emotions. They're allowed to make bigger mistakes. They're allowed to do anything'newsonDwarf Fortress