Anyone getting Dwarf Fortress on Steam when it's out? Im very interested in it despite the huge learning curve.
Hell yeah. I can't wait.
It's two-fold for me. I've always wanted to tackle DF and it's time to support the Adams brothers. They had the game up for free on Bay 12 since 2006 and have been actively working on it since 2002. More importantly one of the brothers has cancer and their medical bills are mounting (thus the Steam release, game will still be free on B12). It's the easiest $20 I'll spend in a long while.
For the game itself, it's always been a bit of a white whale for me. I've grown into ever-increasingly complex sims over the years, often in wildly diverse genres. Everything from CK2/EU4, Kerbal, Factorio, Caves of Qud, CDDA, Maj'Eyal, RimWorld, Cogmind, Kenshi and more. I'd go so far as to say that lo-fi, staggeringly deep sim titles are my absolute favorite flavor of gaming experience in the modern age. Where unpacking layer upon layer of depth is just as, if not more entertaining than system mastery.
Enter Dwarf Fortress. The one that continues to elude me. Here I am at least grasping some or many of the concepts wrapped around the titles listed above, but DF has always felt too big for my puny brain. I'm hoping that an Official Steam Release (tm.) will inspire me to go the extra mile and jump in with both feet, finally tackling head-on what most consider the most complex game ever made.
Not sure if they have it planned or not but Workshop support could go a long way. Basic training-wheel stuff like actual graphics through tile sets, etc. (I understand the base game will ship with some as well). Just whatever is available to get someone from the shallows over to the deep end as painlessly as possible.
I'll be buying it either way just to support the devs. DF is an incredible story, both in and out of the game.