84 points

Dwarf Fortress almost made me fail a few courses in undergrad.

That is a game that redefines the concept of fun.

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18 points

If you don’t gotta consult the reference books regularly, are you even enjoying yourself?

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4 points

I bought a second monitor just to have the wiki open at all times.

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8 points

An epic fight with trogdor.

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3 points

Then, as an adventurer, you beat Trogdor by throwing handfuls of water at it

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I have legit weaponized kittens as projectile anti-siege bioweapons using drawbridges as catapults.

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7 points

It is amazing that in zero words that comic encapsulates nearly everything about Dwarf Fortress.

This is the only game that made me regret wasting time eating IRL because I needed both hands for designating jobs.

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4 points

What I came to say. Thought for sure this post was going to to be a reference itself.

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1 point

If that comic defines what dwarf games and dwarf fortress plays like, then am I a dwarf for exclusively playing indie roguelikes and roguelites?

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42 points

Zany uberviolent team shooters about bugs sounds a whole lot like Deep Rock Galactic.

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25 points

Or its weirder, older cousin, Earth Defense Force

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2 points

To save our mother Earth from any alien attack!

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2 points

From vicious giant insects who have once again come back!

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9 points

There’s also the newish Starship Troopers: Extermination

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9 points

I interpreted ‘bugs’ as ‘glitches’ rather than creepy crawlies.

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2 points

Goblins are just juvenile dwarves.

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I’m tempted to put Eve Online into the “Elf Video Game” category, because the UI could, to quote Yahtzee, “only be more unintuitive if it was at the bottom of a fucking well.” It doesn’t really meet the other categories there. It kinda hits “Halfling Video Games,” with the sheer politics involved in that game.

Factorio is solidly a “Dwarven Video Game.”

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The Eve Online UI is perfectly intuitive. There is simply no other way of providing the level of information needed in a different format than lots of tables.

only thing missing is an SQL prompt.

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14 points

We found the elf.

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Eve is 100% halfling game.

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1 point

I suppose you have an HOA if you’re in a renter corp, but seriously just join a good alliance.

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Turtles all the way down.

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27 points

Tabaxi video games: Open world survival crafting rpg with a million different game mechanics. Bugs out the ass because the developers kept getting distracted by a piece of string or some other random bullshit. Ends on a cliffhanger because they ran out of time to finish the story. Robust modding community by necessity.

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8 points

So. Starfield then

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14 points

Nah, even the modding community declared that a lost cause.

Skyrim.

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No matter how tangled the mess, it’s still a call of yarn, after all. 🤩

edit: I’m leaving it as is.

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2 points

Palworld then

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26 points

The factory must grow

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11 points

The city must survive

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7 points

The magma must flow (downstairs through the entirety of the fortress)

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