It's been scarcely a month since it launched on Steam, and the Dwarf Fortress sales have been, in a word, good. According to the latest report from developer Bay 12 Games, the paid version of its intricate colony management game sold nearly half a million copies in December - a rather astonishing feat for a 20-year-old game that's still available (in its non-graphical form) for free.
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