Is this game Dead?

[GabyGaby]

"754 In-Game"
Meanwhile Rimworld "21,899 In-Game"
Before some of you might say "Blah-Blah it is not a multiplayer game so why do you care", the number of people who still play the game shows, at the least, the "replayability" of the game and if the game is still developing.

It is stunning for me that the famous "Dwarf Fortress" everybody was talking about before, which is a predecessor of Rimworld, is so low on numbers.

[Fel]

Again with this, don't you guys ever get tired of starting these meaningless threads?

No, this game is not dead, but many people play on and off as the months and years go by.
This is especially true for this game since the development is rather slow and has been this way for well over a decade.

[Bab Peeg]

0/10

[Pogey-Bait]

Insignificant

[kheftel]

Nope

[Pek]

Dead? No. Wildly overrated? Yes.

[Fletch]

I've played DF since 2007/2008, so there's that for replayability. Likely thousands of hours in the game before it came to Steam 7 months ago (similar thing with Factorio before it came to Steam).

Steam's metrics are under counting the true player base by 1) the people who simply download the free versions directly from Bay12's website -- which has been the norm for that past 15+ years, 2) people who purchased and play the new "premium" via other Marketplace (itch.io), 3) people who are launching the game outside of the Steam itself (ex: Linux/Mac people, and people using other methods to run it on unsupported OS's).

Notice that when you launch RimWorld outside of Steam, Steam still tracks those hours played. Dwarf Fortress does not do that.

Anyhow, Dwarf Fortress game is far from dead. Blind just released a 2-hour long interview with the developers a couple of days ago.

As for me, I'm quite content with v47.05 while I wait on the Premium release to catch up and have feature parity with the older versions.

As for RimWorld's 22k concurrent players, why is it so much less than the nearly 900k people playing Counter-Strike right now? There are 49 other games[steamdb.info] with higher player counts than RimWorld as of this instant. Is RimWorld dead? There are literally millions upon million of people playing something other than RimWorld. When did the RimWorld devs last add features to their game (outside of pumping more expensive DLCs)? Is RimWorld dead?

[Mystomex]

Dwarf fortress has been around for free for over 20 years, the people that bought this game, myself included have been playing for decades. On top of that this isnt even the same dwarf fortress that people have been playing for decades as its missing the adventure mode.

Here is how dwarf fortress play goes.
First time you play dwarf fortress you play non stop for months maybe years depending how deep you get into the history of a world. Eventually you come to learn all the ins and outs and end up just waiting for the next update.
Update comes out: play non stop for a few months, wait for next update. repeat for decades.

[Fel]

Sometimes you throw in mods (I miss the old masterwork) in there as well but that's pretty much it yes.

[DarkSlayerofDarkness]

Some features are missing still (announcements, looking at you), so I play the non-steam version for now. This game is excellent and unlike any other. The steam version is still new, however, so it is missing some features for now. Maybe that's why the numbers are low. There is no other version of RimWorld to suck players away, while DF has always had a free version.

I am a big fan of Rimworld, don't get me wrong, I have hundreds of hours in it.

[Graknorke]

what are you talking about. what does "dead game" even mean when it's a single player game? there's no online lobbies to worry about being empty, you're playing by yourself.

[GabyGaby]

Originally posted by Graknorke:

what are you talking about. what does "dead game" even mean when it's a single player game? there's no online lobbies to worry about being empty, you're playing by yourself.

Brits cannot read?

[GabyGaby]

Anyway, I have got my answer. The game is for the brain dead. Sadge

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by Graknorke:

what are you talking about. what does "dead game" even mean when it's a single player game? there's no online lobbies to worry about being empty, you're playing by yourself.

Don't you know? Every true game must have 100 different cosmetic DLC, three different pre-order bonuses for each console (avaliable for 4.99 on the other two!), and have hamfisted 'community' aspects that force this single-player game to be perpetually online.
Also it has to be outdated every year or every other year as the "sequel" comes out.

[Cpt.Korggan]

Originally posted by Insignificant:

Anyway, I have got my answer. The game is for the brain dead. Sadge

big cope from strardew valley player

[RadCon One]

I personally am not playing right now because I'm waiting on major issues to be fixed, such as ranged units not working without performing a couple of different work-around-rituals each time, hunters not having settable outfits at all, and civilian alerts not being in.