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Lead a dwarven mining colony, dig into a dangerous mountain, craft goods for surface factions, and build systems to move resources.
Released 16 Nov 2021
Dig Into Deep Caves
Build Vertical Shafts
Forge Faction Orders
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Developed by Warpzone Studios · Published by Team17 Digital
You manage a small clan of dwarves carving a colony into the mountain of Mara while conflict unfolds on the surface. The colony supports its chosen allies by producing and delivering requested weapons, equipment, and other goods.
Dig downward to uncover ores, caverns, and hostile creatures, then build rooms and routes through the mountain. Assign dwarves to jobs, manage their needs and equipment, gather resources, and defend the colony from threats below.
Use gathered materials to craft increasingly advanced items and fulfill faction requests through trade. As dwarves develop skills and the colony expands, unlock new production options and use elevators and conveyor belts to automate parts of the operation.
Players who enjoy Hammerting often highlight the appeal of digging into the mountain, expanding a dwarven settlement, and gradually organizing its production. Some also praise the underground atmosphere and the usefulness of automation as the colony grows. These positives are frequently tempered by reports of bugs, difficult dwarf behavior, and frustrating progression.
Hammerting is a vertical dwarven mining colony sim with RPG elements.
Manage a clan of colourful Dwarves, establish an epic mining operation, craft legendary swords and delve deep for greater glory, riches... and danger.
With conflict raging on the surface, the Dwarves pledge to delve deep and as master craftspeople, will produce and supply what is needed to support their allies. From humble beginnings, you start with a handful of Dwarves who need to set up their operations quickly. However, as you progress, your small clan will expand and become known throughout the Overworld for their skill and premium craftsmanship.
Allies on the surface will have all manner of requests. Dwarves may find themselves asked to craft a plethora of silver swords against an oncoming army.
With the Overworld in need, every successful delivery takes you one step closer to triumph. As your Dwarves grow in skill and your base expands, build conveyor belts and elevators to free them of manual labour.
Does Åglöf’s fancy ancestry clash with Vargskreva’s humble upbringing? Is your explorer afraid of the dark? Has your master crafter reached their Ballmer Peak? Aim for success and exploit the strengths of your Dwarves, as well as their weaknesses. Each Dwarf is richly and uniquely defined through its stats, Dwarven ancestry, traits, abilities, equipment, move-set and much more, as they are shaped by events occurring in their lives.
Anyone can craft an Iron Sword, but only Dwarves can dig down into the depths and cart up boatloads of diamonds and bones and use it to craft the... Iron Sword +2.
With every strike of the hammer on an anvil, a skilled Dwarf has a better chance of achieving a critical result, giving you better and improved gear.
It is as they say – “Fortune favours the bold”, and only in the deepest depths will you find the most powerful materials, the warmest magma, the rarest treasures, but also the most dangerous conditions.
Figuring out the fastest and safest route down - and up again - is a chief concern, but you’ll have plenty of unique Dwarven mechanisms to help you to do so.
Hammerting features liquid and physics mechanics for pumping sizzling lava to your hearths, brewing hoppy beer, tossing burning torches down shafts to light up the unknown and more!
A Dwarven king once said: “A single axe is easily blunt, but an army of axes is unbreakable!”. You might want to explore and populate the depths of Mara on your own, but you can also partner up with jolly comrades and run a dwarven colony together. It’s all about synchronization, companionship and common goals!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Steam Deck | Unsupported |
| Achievements | 16 |
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| Controller required | No |
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| Metacritic | 64/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
