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Dwarf Fortress – long awaited Adventure mode comes to one of the greatest games of all time, but what actually is it?

Dwarf Fortress finally has a beta version of it's Adventure Mode in the Steam Version. We look at what it is and whether it is for you or not

These days after a stupendously successful Steam launch that brought the game to a much wider audience, and also toned down the intimidation levels by replacing the ASCII characters with actual graphics, players have long pined for the original’s Adventure Mode. You can currently, in the released beta, create a party in character generation, visit your old forts, retire, unretire, get NPC companions, take quests, fight monsters with the various melee/wrestling/ranged options, set fires, tell stories, and travel the world. It’s tough, but it’s fun – more like an adventuring turn-based roguelike combining all the things you love in Dwarf Fortress but allowing you to wander into places such as human towns and the like.

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