What is the age rating and/or recommendation for Dwarf Fortress? Could a 7 year old learn to play? 10 year old? 14 year old?
Is it suitable/safe for those ages?
Age rating/recommendation for Dwarf Fortress
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What is the age rating and/or recommendation for Dwarf Fortress? Could a 7 year old learn to play? 10 year old? 14 year old?
Is it suitable/safe for those ages?
Best Answer
As for difficulty I think an interested thirteen year old should be able to learn to play. Oftentimes it seems children are better at learning interfaces than we adults are. As far as content dwarf fortress contains the following.
for their valuable body partsYou can still kill good creatures, but their body parts values have been lowered to make the practice less attractive
Dwarf Fortress does not contain:
What tempers the excessive gore of the game is the fact that it is text based. Very gruesome things happen in game, but are not visualized, only described in prose. You would have to determine from that how appropriate it is for the child in question. I'm fairly sure the ESRB would rate it at least 13+.
It's also worth nothing that the community around Dwarf Fortress can be quite gruesome and disturbing, including the official forums.