15 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 4 hours and 58 hours
92% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
95% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
95% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
94% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
95% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
95% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
96% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
96% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
96% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Dwarf Fortress hold up?
It holds steady: between 94% and 96% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
How long would it take you?
Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in Dwarf Fortress, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
@testuser1 holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
Is Dwarf Fortress worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Dwarf Fortress
- Steam list price, US
- $29.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 15 h
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
- 95%recommend it once the refund window has closed
- 94–96%at every stage past two hours: it holds steady
- 4 of 22copies in the libraries here never launched it
Do the first two hours of Dwarf Fortress tell you?
In the first two hours92%recommend it
After that95%recommend it
15 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
16% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 92% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 77% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 10 hours in.
Dwarf Fortress holds up
Holds up
At least 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site.
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/dwarf-fortress#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/dwarf-fortress/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="Dwarf Fortress: Holds up. At least 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played."></a>Did everyone who owns Dwarf Fortress play it?
4 of 22
copies in the libraries here never launched it
How well is Dwarf Fortress remembered?
1 in 76
Name 100 runs say its name, 1.3% of them: players asked to name 100 games from memory.
How this page counts
- The hours
- Half of its Steam reviewers had played 15 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4 hours and 58 hours. One bead is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 31,900 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
- The price
- At Steam's US list price of $29.99, the typical player's 15 hours come to $2.00 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat.