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Direct a growing dwarf tribe as it mines a shifting island, crafts supplies, builds a fortress, and fends off monsters.
Released 24 Nov 2014
Command a Dwarf Tribe
Mine Island Layers
Build Dwarf Fortresses
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Developed by Dekovir Entertainment, Sibear Games · Published by Dekovir Ltd









You guide a tribe of dwarves across randomly generated island worlds, issuing orders to dig, gather resources, fight creatures, and build structures. Each island stretches from the sky down through layers of earth to underground lava, with its own terrain, weather, and wildlife.
Use gathered materials and organized crafting recipes to make tools, weapons, armor, food, furniture, and building pieces. Build a shelter with beds and supplies for your dwarves, and strengthen it with walls, traps, and defenses as nighttime creatures and periodic monster waves threaten the settlement.
As the tribe works, you gain experience, add dwarves, unlock technologies, and develop their skills. You can also cast spells to aid exploration, resource gathering, and combat. Search underground for hidden rooms and a portal that can lead to another world.
Players who enjoy the game often return for its satisfying cycle of digging, gathering, crafting, and expanding a dwarf settlement, with new worlds and a relaxed, sometimes nostalgic feel adding to its replay appeal. Reviews also repeatedly criticize dwarf behavior and pathfinding, cumbersome menus and micromanagement, bugs, and the cost or division of DLC content.
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress.
Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

You control a tribe of dwarves by giving them commands to dig in certain places, attack enemy creatures, and build houses and other structures. You'll need to provide your dwarves food and clothing, as well as help them with magic when fighting against other inhabitants of the world. You start the game with one dwarf and gain additional dwarves as your experience level increases.

Each game level has many layers of earth to explore, from the sky down to boiling subterranean lava. The level is randomly generated as an island, restricted by natural boundaries: oceans on the edges, lava beneath it, and the sky above. Other features include day and night and changing weather conditions. The worlds differ in size, humidity, temperature, terrain, and flora and fauna. Abandoned halls and rooms with treasure are hidden somewhere deep within the islands.

One feature of the game is a user-friendly system of recipes for crafting. The recipes are organized and easily accessible. You can craft dozens of different items: building blocks for houses, furniture, decorations, weapons, armor, ammunition, and food for your dwarves.

At the outset you find the recipes for basic tools and items, and build a small house with places to sleep and eat. Then, the size of the tribe increases and catches the attention of other inhabitants of the world. Most of them are night creatures and dwell underground. The worlds are full of fantasy creatures like zombies, skeletons, goblins, beholders, ghosts, giant spiders, and others. Some of them pay little attention to the dwarves, as long as the dwarves do not come into their field of vision. Others gather into quite large groups and try to break into the dwarves’ residence.

Especially dangerous are the waves of monsters that appear from time to time from portals. So, do not neglect to build a safe haven with strong walls and numerous trapdoors, cells, firing towers, and secret passageways.

As a divine being, you possess various spells. You can speed up the movement of the dwarves, open small portals, illuminate dark caves to scare away monsters, evoke natural magic in the form of rain or tree growth, hurl fireballs at the monsters’ heads, and find useful resources and hidden rooms underground, thereby helping to speed up resource extraction, exploration of the world, and the population growth of your assistants.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 94 |
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| Players | 2 |
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| Multiplayer | The store features list states Online Co-op. Player reviews consistently report that multiplayer requires the "Dig with Friends" DLC rather than the base game alone. Reviews describe co-op multiplayer with friends, and several also mention a versus/PvP mode and isolated multiplayer mission maps rather than shared full-campaign play. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop and a level editor are listed. Reviews mention mods improving the game generally, but the provided information does not confirm specific multiplayer mod support or effects on multiplayer. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 12 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |