As I stopped playing for now because of three bugs that were just driving me crazy and ruining any possible enjoyment.įirst was rooms weren't being recognised as rooms, only ever as corridors, and that wouldn't change no matter how much I rebuilt them. And personally I'd advise anyone looking to try it again, or for the first time, to wait until at least v.0.70 drops before doing so. Which sounds like what your experience was. I'd say it's in a "playable, just, but several very annoying bugs stage". As I recall it he just added a couple of new doors and windows, while ignoring the actual game. Was abandoned in a state that just barely qualified as a tech demo, and was then picked up by someone else a few years later. Gnomoria got kinda close to being a decent game, but the extremely bare bones visuals make it a hard sell.Īlso the one I can't remember the name of right now. And it won't be.ĮDIT: f you want to see some of the better attempts, for purposes of comparison, look at "Timber & Stone", "Gnomoria" and "Dwarfcorp". Stonehearth is the best 3d version of Dwarf Fortress we're likely to get for a very long time. It's because that game is very close to impossible to make. And that's not because the developers sucked, or betrayed some obscure idea of trust. There has been a million games in development that aimed to create the gameplay from Dwarf Fortress with 3d graphics and a less hostile user interface. Game development, on anything more than pure hobby scale, is incredibly expensive compared to the chance of an ROI that makes it possible to keep working.
But it has always been that way, and always will. But people that don't know the process wrongly assume that cut features and half finished products going gold is somehow a new phenomenon, and start treating it like it's some gruesome betrayal. It has always been like that, and if there has been any change, it has actually gotten better.
#STONEHEARTH MULTIPLAYER LAN MAC#
There's an army of pissy people on this subreddit that always come out of the woodwork to downvote whenever Stonehearth is mentioned, usually because it never got a Mac version, but the fact of the matter is that not only is it the most well made and fully featured 3d Dwarf Fortress based game available, but it's also a kind of game that is incredibly difficult, from a technical perspective, to make.įeatures get cut in all games, since we moved past Pong, but since a lot of the industry changed to a more open development model recently, people that have no first hand knowledge suddenly noticed it. Or there was, but they've all been abandoned. It improves a LOT of the issues and adds a ton of content.Īs for similar games, there really aren't any.
#STONEHEARTH MULTIPLAYER LAN MODS#
I love everything about Dwarf Fortress conceptually, especially the wacky text events it's famous for, but I'm a pretty shallow guy and the "graphics" really kill me, even with the mods that make it look all modern and sleek.įor Stonehearth, remember to grab the official community mod/expansion. What's the most similar game out there? Particularly I really like the 3D environment and the options of pre-built or custom built buildings, coupled with the skill systems (although Stonehearth's skill system is woefully underdeveloped and the building system is buggy as hell). Between bugs, bad optimization, and a general unfinished feel, it's just not quite there. The only problem is that it's pretty much deader than dead since Riot Games bought out Radiant.
I recently rediscovered Stonehearth in my library, and it's got so much going for it! It's pretty much exactly what I've looked for. Couldn't get into Dwarf Fortress for the typical reasons, but I've got a couple hundred hours in RimWorld, and I've sampled a number of other games that didn't quite hit the right itch. Hey y'all, I'm a pretty big fan of these kinds of games.
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