

The success of Dwarf Fortress on Steam is awesome: around 630,000 copies sold on Steam, as of March. But it was free & funded via (a dwindling) Patreon. Short, and has just celebrated 10 years in business (woo!) They put out their own titles like Boyfriend Dungeon, and most recently, published Dwarf Fortress on Steam.įor context, Tarn & Zach Adams’ Dwarf Fortress existed for 20+ years as an ASCII art roguelike, with legendarily complex & cool ‘emergent’ simulation.

So, Canadian developer & publisher Kitfox Games is ‘captained’ by Tanya X. Steam publisher sales, pre and post a big hit…? (We last looked at this >2 years ago, and are wondering if it changed.) It’s 100% anonymous - please fill it out (once per game!) if you possibly can… Oh, and we’re launching a new survey today, on your unreleased Steam game(s)’ ‘follower to wishlist’ ratio. Have some snacks, but there’s still more to learn about the state of PC/console games, so… try to stay awake back there? ‘Not quite!’, says the game discovery parents (us?) in the front seat. ‘Are we nearly there yet?’, ask the game discovery kids in the back.
