Been playing this game for awhile, really enjoyed it at first though there was quite a learning curve figuring out how to get past the first world in campaign mode. Not a bad thing though, made it feel very rewarding when I did get the hang of things and stopped getting overrun by monsters before getting far enough.

But now that I've put some hours into it and gotten to later stages in the game it's quickly becoming less enjoyable as the increase in difficulty reallly brings out some major flaws in the game that have been mentioned before, but I'll say it again. The UI really needs work. And the dwarves AI needs major work. I don't know how many times I've gotten to the point of screaming obscenities at my monitor because no matter what I do the stupid dwarves just act like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and run straight to their death, without even being told to. Not to mention how often they don't do what you want them to, run around in circles or go way over to the other end of the map for seemingly no reason (path finding is horrendous) and seem to build things in random order, to the point of where you told them to build something important 10 minutes ago but all they want to do is build stupid crap that you end up cancelling because they won't do what you already told them to do previously. Gets to the point where you feel like you have to only give them one build job at a time if you want them to get done in proper order, which makes the whole process way more tedious and time consuming than it should be. If you want to build a ceiling to a new building or new upper floor of one you literally have to take manual control of a dwarf and build each block yourself or it will never get done. They can't seem to figure out how to build one block, and then the next, and then the next in a series. They instead just build one and then give up because they can't get to the one way out in the middle or somewhere instead of THE ONE RIGHT NEXT TO THEM. DUH.

Extremely frustrating, especially when little things like this really start to make the difference between life and death in later levels. Really fun game otherwise, but really needs a lot of work on these issues before I'll continue playing it any more.

I get that the developers probably want to keep adding more content to the game in order to keep people interested and make it more appealing to new players, but I feel like their priorities are a bit off. Multiplayer, quite frankly, seems pretty pointless and poorly executed. You're in the middle of a level, got a bunch of dwarves and everything, then you open a portal... to an entirely different level, where you have different dwarves and start out from scratch again and can't even go back and forth between this entirely new game and the one you were just playing. At least, not until you finish this entirely new level which takes so long you don't even remember where you left off in the last one, and in the end you're not even left with much to show for it as you can't really take much of the stuff you got back with you.

And frankly I think they should be more focused on trying to make the exisiting game better, fix the major AI issues and the like before worrying about adding extraneous features like this "multiplayer" which doesn't even seem to have much of a purpose to begin with.

I have to be honest, this game surprised me. I looked at it for some time and then finally went for it when it was on sale. It looked like it could be fun but I wasn't sure there was enough substance to it but boy was I wrong! This game is so much fun it's crazy. All the positive ratings are right on target here. I do agree we should have gotten the content of the DLC for free but I'm not going to be angry about that.

Grab this one and you won't be disappointed. This one has a great deal of fun game play.

Depends what you want from games... If you want minion mastery, sandbox, base defense, crafting, gathering, building, feeding an army, strategy, survival, tactics then this is your game. Of course it has some cons but better than %90 of games which like dwarf fortress.I hope they bring some dlc later.

Game would be better if you could turn off monster attacks or just turn off monsters period.

I did not like this game the first time I saw it. But having watched a couple of let's plays I got really tempted and eventually purchased this game. I have not played much, but my first impression is pleasant. Interesting gameplay, full freedom and really challenging game mechanic - the more you play (provided you play actively), the more dwarfs you will get. It will increase your power, but on the other hand, all of those dwarfs should be fed, given place to sleep, given tools and weapons. Maybe this game was inspired by Terraria and Minecraft, but it is quite different. In Minecraft, theoretically, you can beat the game even if you live in a small house. In Craft the world, you'll have to expand. 15 dwarfs need space to live afterall!

I am really looking forward to developers adding even more items into the game, hopefully they'll include some steampunk-themed things. Because I've always assosiated dwarfs with steampunk.

Some'll say Terraria is better. Maybe, I have not played it, I can not say. But why control one character when you can have an entire army?

This is a wonderful game, and even after 1.5 hours of gameplay I am like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0

Craft the World - why did I even buy it? Obviously the cartoony graphics were a huge factor.

I don't even play these sort of games.

Installed. I load up and start a new game on "small" world on easy difficulty. Easy-peasy, lemon-squeeze. Build, mine, kill a few monsters and onto next level right? How hard can this be?

40 hours later I am facing a mental battle of wills against the game developers. Like Gandalf said in Lord of Rings, "You shall not pass!". This game isn't passing me by. It's not the boss of me.

It's more like a strategic game or even a new type of gaming genre called the ENDURANCE GENRE.

I started with a single dwarf who can cut down a few trees and play with dirt. He can mine stone and also kill the odd sheep for wool. EVERY resource he produces must be taken back to the central stockpile before it can be used in my megalomania. This is where the problems begin.

Soon enough I level up and gain more and more dwarves to play with. I work through the skill tree and move from being able to produce beds made from leaves to the fully emperor size luxurious beds. I move from making simple wood weapons to Iron Axes. I move from being able to craft a mud pile to stone walls.

As all this is happening the game goes through a night and day cycle where during the night zombie/ghost/skeleton mobs attack.

How do you build a home? I don't know.
How do you stop your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ dwarves from travelling half way, ALL THE WAY across the world to gather a single stupid bit of wood, I don't know.
How to stop rats from attacking your home? I don't know. (This one is probably the most asked question in Discussions).
How do you complete the game? I don't know.
Can you sell items? I don't know.
How do I make the portal? What bloody portal?
Why don't more trees grow on top of my house? I DON'T KNOW.

40 hours in I am still on the first "easy" level. On my 6th attempt. Each time trying to find perfection. The perfect home. The perfect set of skills for my dwarves. The prefect wave of destruction that consumes the world of all its natural resources ensuring no piece of stone, bit of Earth, bit of coal is not consumed in my inevitable march towards the exit. To the developers, I say resistance is futile. I will beat you.

Miles and miles deep into the Earth I come across some sort of giant skeleton creature that wields a huge sword which also erupts waves of fire at my puny dwarves. It can also summon undead. It's dead. I find a portal spell.

Many, many, many things wrong with the game. Primary is the Dwarven IQ levels which may cause you to smash your fist into the screen.

"Run you fools" as Gandalf said. These fools don't run. They often engage in combat at the wrong time and more often end up ignoring your blatant commands. The developers must have realised this as well as a short while into the game you are given the HORN spell that basically forces the dwarves to move their ♥♥♥ right now. GO THERE RIGHT NOW. ALL OF YOU. MOVE.

It gives me a little pleasure watching my dwarf idiots trying to follow my simple instructions. I give them meat and salad and sometimes they have the cheek to complain about being forced to eat the same food over and over again. I watch them sleep. I direct them to the bowels of hell to find some iron ore.

I am not addicted to the game and I am certain my 6th attempt will bring me huge success. Apparently the next world is quite similar. You basically start all over again.

So, I am not addicted. JUST. NEED. TO. COMPLETE. THIS. FIRST. LEVEL. TO. PERFECTION.

The controls of your dwarfs are frustrating. If you don't own Terraria buy that instead because this is actually a simplistic copy of it.

Great game i think you should add other playable races elfs trolls and undead and on just to give it a better multi player feel but love the game fun and easy to get lost in

Good game - some very interesting ideas and combination of gameplay elements - I would describe it as a weird cross of Dungeon Keeper with Settlers and Mincraft.

For me the biggest issue was with the controls, those are not very good and it is getting in a way of the experience in the long run - the more items you can craft. I do not understand some limitations that the UI has was the UI designer frozen in time for the last 10 years?

Same goes for Dwarf AI, dumber then the Lemmings. They drop everything they carry to go help another one fighting like miles away, no chance to ever reach him before the fight is over. Don't even get me talking about constantly dropping from the ladder why trying to attack monsters. The command queue is also a mystery for me, orders are often not executed in order but more at random.

As with some other games it is a shame that you do not have neutral score you can give. I spend 10 exciting hours completely glamored by the game, however, issues with controls and dwarfs AI eventually just overwhelmed the fun after 14th hour of gameplay. I normaly expect more playtime - before the game stops being any fun - from a sandbox type game so I'll be going with the negative review this time around.

It's fun in the beginning.

But the more you play, the more you hate because of so many bugs and misprogrammings.

You should wait until the developer fixes the AI programming.