Arcane Fortune, or, What if SimCity and Civilization had a Baby?

January 26, 2021 10:02 AM

Arcane Fortune is, essentially, a grand strategy game inspired by SimCity, Dwarf Fortress,, and the Civilization series, among other inspirations. It's free to play and the source code is available.
posted by Alensin (13 comments total)

On a personal note, the author has gone out of his way to make the game playable by the blind, though that's still a work in progress as is the game itself. If I can't play DF or Civilization, I'll at least have this, which is pretty interesting in its own right.
posted by Alensin at 10:03 AM on January 26, 2021 [20 favorites]

oh no
no no no
someone is trying to kill me
posted by Capt. Renault at 10:17 AM on January 26, 2021 [13 favorites]

But Dwarf Fortress isn’t even at version 1.0 yet!
posted by Going To Maine at 10:30 AM on January 26, 2021 [6 favorites]

But Dwarf Fortress isn’t even at version 1.0 yet!

☺
posted by Celsius1414 at 11:07 AM on January 26, 2021 [1 favorite]

I love super-ambitious stuff like this.

On that note, does anyone know what happened to Ultima Ratio Regum?
posted by entity447b at 11:39 AM on January 26, 2021 [3 favorites]

entity447b, I saw something a few months back about the author resuming development. It looks like his blog has fairly recent information. :)
posted by Alensin at 11:49 AM on January 26, 2021 [3 favorites]

What are the sys-reqs for this on OSX? Nothing on their website or Wiki have anything on this. Kind of wondering if it can be played on older versions of OSX.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:15 PM on January 26, 2021

Thorzdad, I saw a note saying that it should theoretically work on as old as 10.7. Pretty sure that was on the wiki somewhere…
posted by Alensin at 12:22 PM on January 26, 2021

What are the sys-reqs for this on OSX?

It's basically a Unix application so it's not like it's making use of new features. I would expect it would be worth trying no matter what version of OSX you're running.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 12:29 PM on January 26, 2021

This looks extremely my jam, but it also looks like the kind of game that would be best enjoyed by playing for many hours at a time. And I have two small kids. An hour or three a week is about all I have to spare.

So I guess I’ll need to check back in once Arcane Fortune is at version 0.5 or something.

Has anyone found any good articles about what the game is like to play?
posted by Kattullus at 1:22 PM on January 26, 2021 [1 favorite]

It's a 64-bit application anyway. :)
posted by Alensin at 3:14 PM on January 26, 2021 [2 favorites]

But Dwarf Fortress isn’t even at version 1.0 yet!

For the past year it's been listed on Steam with the note "Planned Release Date: time is subjective"
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 3:32 PM on January 27, 2021 [3 favorites]

I like the ideas of these games but find myself increasingly fond of simpler games with few elegantly combined mechanics. XCom 1, Civ 1, Simcity 2000...
Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft et al. seem to just add feature after feature. Do such dedicated solo developers usually (or ever) remove mechanics that took them effort to implement?
posted by anthill at 2:17 PM on February 1, 2021