For small developers seeking a breakout hit in the increasingly hard to define simulation/management genre, one of the perennial silver bullet concepts is Dwarf Fortress, but it looks nice, and people aren t scared to play it . Of everything on the market so far, it s probably Rimworld that comes closest to this goal, but it had the crucial flaw of not including any dwarves.
As such, the race is still on to produce a pretty, user-friendly dwarf- em-up, and I m emailed probably once a week by a developer with one in the works. For the most part, I m skeptical – after all, I love the original DF like a cowboy loves his horse – but this week, I received some images that genuinely turned my head.
