Ready to dig deep? Dwarf Fortress now has a Linux Beta available on Steam, so you can get testing and see what all the fuss is about with this new version.
  • Owangee1@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 year ago

    Can’t recommend this game enough. If you haven’t played it before, you can get the full game for free, without the new UI, from the bay12 website!

  • Elw@lemmy.sdf.org
    10·
    1 year ago

    This is great news! I have always wanted to try Dwarf Fortress but I know myself and I know from past experiences playing ASCII MUDs and rogue-likes that I don’t play them enough to memorize what the different symbols represent and that inevitably causes me to drop the game entirely out of frustration. It seems like a small thing, but having the graphical version of the game on Linux is a huge win to me.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    1 year ago

    Nice! I just bought it a week or two ago, so this is fantastic news!

    I used to play a bit, but I haven’t played in years. I’ll have to mess with the Linux version and try it out.

  • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve recently gotten into this and it’s an amazingly detailed game with so many things to offer/handle it’s frankly overwhelming.

    A native linux version is amazing and will def wait for the release as I’ve recently started a look run which is pretty good for me,given my limited experience.

    • usrtrv@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      TTY was great for multiplayer. Instead of handing the save file back and forth, we would just take turns on the server.

    • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t look like so in the beta at least, it will always launch in an SDL window - and doesn’t link to the curses libs either, which makes some sense with it being a Steam game.
      Though using dfhack and the remote interface could probably still be used to have a tty client.