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Cheap Games

Discussion about playing games priced $15 or less, Free/Donation-ware is great too! For Piracy there are other communities.

Common sources are Itch.io and Google Play

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Dwarf Fortress is easily recommended as a cheap game! It's not cheap on Steam, but free from Bay12Games. Spend the money on Steam if you'd like an easy way to support KitFox and Bay12, or use their Patreon. Back in my day, we sent PayPal and got ASCII art in reply!

It was a good game in 2D, and absolutely crazy in 3D. Predecessor to Minecraft. You begin by clicking "Create new world" generating the world and its history. Be sure to use the mouse in dialog windows, you may have trouble using the keyboard shortcuts for these. The default settings for "Create world" are decent, if you get hooked on the game you can experiment later and using "Detailed Mode" ๐Ÿ˜€

Once the world is created, the seasons and history will pass by for a few minutes and then you may review the world and click "Play Now". World and history are saved, and you may enter "Fortress" mode. Either click "Start tutorial", or you know what you doing.

DF is "real-time with lots of pausing", designating the mining, construction, and stockpiling jobs to be done by your dwarves and letting them do it. Periodically you will haul goods to your trade depot and exchange for useful materials. There's a lot of options fresh off the wagon, and it only gets crazier from there.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who's been playing since before z-levels, if you want to understand what kind of game Dorf Fort is, I recommend watching the start of this interview with Tarn: https://youtu.be/VAhHkJQ3KgY

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

p.s. my favorite bug I ever had was when he implemented vampires trying to pin blame on other fort residents when their victims were discovered. Because wagons move around the game considered them as creatures, I think they accidentally had the intelligent (or maybe canlearn) tag, so I had a vampire try to pin its crime on a maple wood wagon.

Needless to say he didn't get away with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™ve heard so many good things about this game. Time for me to give it a try.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Go through the wiki and learn how to set up farming and brewing.

Then you'll know enough to make a nice little fortress.

When you get destroyed by invaders, go back to the wiki and learn about creating a military.

Have FUN!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

DF is one of those games I'll invest hours into for about a month every year. There's so many ways to play it, and enjoy the insanity of procedural generation.