Will this game keep evolving with updates

[Bogart]

Or will they release a sequel instead? Just wondering what the devs focus will be which will help me decide whether to buy or wait for a sale.

[netshaman]

YES.

[esotericist]

Originally posted by Bogart Porter Bridges:

Or will they release a sequel instead? Just wondering what the devs focus will be which will help me decide whether to buy or wait for a sale.

dude's been working on this game for 20 years and considers it half done.

buckle in, it's gonna be a long ride

[graalGGTV]

They will probably keep working on it for the next 20-30 years, or as long as they live and are able to keep working on it

[Фельдмаршал Дуб]

Usually big content updates was released once in a year or two, with few bugfixing updates after. So it will remain same, most probably. Just don't expect frequent updates.

[Lexyvil]

Originally posted by Bogart Porter Bridges:

Or will they release a sequel instead? Just wondering what the devs focus will be which will help me decide whether to buy or wait for a sale.

The game is not considered complete, because it is a long ongoing project, but has enough content to be considered a complete game, and each update has been free (none of these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DLCs), and there's a lot more coming. Here's what the game has planned: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

But of course they need to finish porting Classic into this Premium/Steam version first, such as adding quality of life fixes, Adventure mode and Arena Mode.

Updates don't come often, but they're usually very huge, as far as I can tell. The next big one I think will supposedly add Magic to the game.

[MadDawg2552]

Originally posted by Bogart Porter Bridges:

Or will they release a sequel instead?

Took them 20 years to get to this point. A sequel would probably take another 20.

[Reformatio]

At first they have to make it playable.
In my fortress time almost completely stopped.
I chose the standard embark size, have no crazy pathfinding and have no idea why my computer has no problem running high end games but this one lags.

[Lexyvil]

Originally posted by MadDawg2552:

Originally posted by Bogart Porter Bridges:

Or will they release a sequel instead?

Took them 20 years to get to this point. A sequel would probably take another 20.

That, and also Dwarf Fortress is already a sequel (Slaves to Armok II)

[Gnoblin King]

The game will continue to be updated as other people have said! The next major update (aside from the update that adds the old graphics to the steam version) is going to be the adventure mode update which makes the game basically into an open world sandbox where you build your own character and everything (This mode is in the free version of the game and it is very cool).

Some other examples of updates is the army/sieges update which will be updating how both of those parts of the game work, new villains related stuff such as more politics, and the myths and magic update which obviously add magic in some form to the game. Those are just the ones that will be in the next few years.

This game is very much a finished product in terms of content available already and has been for over 10 years if that's what you're worried about. This isn't one of those games that gets released and abandoned after 6 months. I highly recommend the game now and I don't think you should wait for adventure mode or anything since fortress mode is already great and will give you hundreds of hours alone.

Just know that the wiki is your best friend with this game and that losing is fun!

[McFuzz]

The developer and publisher have already said they plan to update and support this version for the next 30 years.

His life's goal is to make the ultimate fantasy world simulator on the market.

What Dwarf Fortress does by the end of its development cycle won't be possible in other games for generations after all of our deaths. Until like, robots can make you a AAA game to your exact specification in a week. No matter what the Rimworld nay-sayers think, that's just an objective fact.

[Bogart]

Thank you guys. This sounds like a special game. I had heard about it for years and that people have been trying to replicate it but I guess this one really is something special.

[esotericist]

Originally posted by Bogart Porter Bridges:

Thank you guys. This sounds like a special game. I had heard about it for years and that people have been trying to replicate it but I guess this one really is something special.

it is special in so many senses of the word. some of them more bizarre than others

it's also still very much an early access game in nature, even if it isn't marked that way in the steam store. so keep that in mind if you decide to get into it.

[EternalNooblet]

Originally posted by Bogart Porter Bridges:

Or will they release a sequel instead? Just wondering what the devs focus will be which will help me decide whether to buy or wait for a sale.

no, the all time peak of df popularity was dec 12: https://steamdb.info/app/975370/graphs/

[McFuzz]

Originally posted by EternalNooblet:

Originally posted by Bogart Porter Bridges:

Or will they release a sequel instead? Just wondering what the devs focus will be which will help me decide whether to buy or wait for a sale.

no, the all time peak of df popularity was dec 12: https://steamdb.info/app/975370/graphs/

It'll probably stay that way forever now, to be honest. The hype's down, vets are disgruntled, new players are happy, Rimworlders are furious that the game even exists (and they always will be lol)

There will be spikes every time Tarn releases a big arc, but it will probably never reach the hype is was a week ago. But that's okay. They're already squillionaires lol.

[EternalNooblet]

i became a multi-clownonaire overnight