Full Game Release

🔥The dwarven furnaces roar with fire as the FULL GAME RELEASE is finally here🔥

With the full release, Season 4 rises from the anvil. The leaderboards are reforged from scratch - only newly founded clans may carve their names into the highscores. Fear not, though: all your hard-earned progress remains untouched, including your Gems, your Runes, and your existing clans.

This update is packed to the beard with new content: 🔥 Full controller & Steam Deck support 🔥 The final Raid boss, the mighty Forge Demon, now awaits challengers 🔥 New Artifacts to switch up your playstyle 🔥 A wealth of new Runes to reshape your builds and strategies

We’ve also hammered in major Quality-of-Life improvements. Dwarves and items can now be managed with Drag & Drop, dozens of bugs have been crushed, and the entire experience has been polished to a mirror-shine.

And for the first time ever, the adventure marches beyond Steam: 🛡️ Dwarves is coming to Nintendo Switch and mobile, letting even more bearded warriors join the fray - wherever the road may lead.

Sharpen your axes. Rally your clan.

🍺 Season 4 is here - and the forge demands Glory, Death and Loot. ⚒️

Full Release Patch Notes (v2.0.0)

*New Features*

• Season 4 is here: Reset of all leaderboards

• Added controller and full Steam Deck support:

  • Added interface setting to disable controller rumble

  • Added interface setting to disable controller detection

• Added final Raid:

  • Forge Demon: Unlocks after clearing 'Storm Wyvern' Raid

• Added 3 new Artifacts:

  • Ham Hock: Cave, Battle 50+ [also granted to Orcs]

  • Thornmail: Forest, Battle 140+

  • Arkenstone - Raid 'Forge Demon' reward

• Added 15 new Runes:

  • Martial Arts: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Way of the Fist: Offensive, Unique, Element, T3

  • Iron Fists: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Thornward: Defensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Crown of Thorns: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Ephemeral Echo: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Elementalist: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Matyrdom: Defensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Chilled to the Bone: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Hypothermia: Offensive, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Frostborn: Defensive, Clear-Cut, All Tiers

  • Absolute Zero: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Shattering Ice: Offensive, Clear-Cut, All Tiers

  • Overcrit: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

  • Critical Thinking: Offensive, Unique, Clear-Cut, T3

• Added 2 new Steam Achievements:

  • For the Forge! - Kill the Forge Demon. Reward: 100 gems.

  • The Final Quest - Upgrade the Arkenstone to mythic quality. Reward: 100 gems.

• Enabled Drag & Drop for Dwarves and Items

• Clicking on a Dwarf Portrait on the battlefield will now make the camera follow that dwarf

*Changes and QoL*

• Obtainable modifiers will now be displayed when placing an item on the anvil in the Forge

• Changes to 'Worldbreaker' 2H Hammer (only applies to new loot):

  • Increased Stamina, Weight, Attack Speed and Attack Damage

  • New Ultimate: Earthquake

  • 'Titan Set' now additionally grants 'Earthquake' a 30% chance to cause Fractured

  • Will now be dropped from the Orc Chieftain with 'Earthquake' Ultimate

• Charge button will now become available after 60 seconds of battle as intended (up from 10)

• Reworked 'Shatter' Ultimate scaling and removed limitation against super heavy targets (e.g. Trolls)

• Orcs gained access to new Artifacts: Hot Coal, Tesla Coil, Frost Armor

• 'Frostbringer Ring' damage scaling changed from 1x INT to 2x WIS

• 'Stormbringer Ring' mana burn and damage scaling changed to DEX

• The Formation icon in the Inventory will now indicate if quests are available or completed

• Navigating to the 'Raid' hall will now always be possible once it is unlocked

• The result of a Forge Recipe will now show a preview on the anvil before forging

• Advanced Shop button will now be highlighted when activated for the first time

• Reduced base number of arrows from 'Arrowgance' from 7 to 5

• Orcs can no longer fire more than 20 arrows at once with 'Arrowgance'

• Memory optimizations for long battles

• Improved contrast for headline text

• 'Archangel Figurine' Artifact has been moved to Glacier biome

• 'Martyrdom' is now a standard T3 Defensive Rune and will be granted to new players

• Re-ordered Runes to always show clear-cut ones last

• 'Hot Coal', 'Tesla Coil' and 'Frost Armor' will now show their activations during combat

• Lowered Weight of Trolls

• Changes to Spider Raids:

  • Increased 'Nightfall' Ultimate cost of Spiders from 100 mana to 180

  • All Spiders will now deal Physical instead of Poison damage with all their direct attacks

  • Lowered Weight, Intelligence, Dexterity and Wisdom of Spiders

• Increased Stamina, Intelligence and Wisdom of all Wyverns and adjusted their weight

• Optimized battle performance and visuals

• Updated battle portrait sprites

• Potions given to a dwarf will now be listed in its History

• 'Potion of Growth' can now be used multiple times to override growth stat imprints

• Updated Rare/Elite/Champion Orc visuals on Battle Cards

• Added on hover color highlights for most item slots

• Tooltips will now be placed smarter to avoid overlap with the cursor

• Adjusted title menu layout

• Changed 'Spirited' Veteran Passive effect

• 'Thundering Shuriken' Ultimate is now undodgeable

• 'Thunderwave' Ultimate is now undodgeable and unblockable

• Increased text size in several areas

• Updated localization for German, French and Spanish

• Changed Orc spawn behavior for Eternal mode:

  • The wave should now be correctly completed at the exact threshold number

  • Elite Orcs will now spawn as the frontline of the wave (instead of the backline)

*Bug Fixes*

• Fixed an issue where class indicators would sometimes not update correctly in the Inventory

• Fixed an issue where Consumable Potions could not be sorted in the Storage

• Fixed an issue where Consumable Potions were not unlocked correctly in the Shop

• Fixed an issue when a Consumable Potion could not be given to a Dwarf

• Fixed some issues with the 'Chain Heal' and 'Kugelblitz' Ultimate behavior

• Fixed an issue where the hair of Dwarves with a blindfold was not shown correctly during combat

• Fixed an issue where the DPS Meter position would not be saved for the next battle

• Fixed an issue where Regeneration was not displayed correctly in the Battle Report

• Fixed an issue where the 'Jackpot!' achievement was not granted correctly when card animations were turned on

• Fixed a few minor bugs that might have caused small performance issues

• Fixed an issue where the death of a Beastmaster would not work correctly

• Fixed an issue where you could enter the leaderboards with the Free Black Market enabled

• Fixed an issue where the wrong music tracks were playing

• Fixed an issue when using the 'Ascension' Rune and trying to complete the Tutorial

• Fixed an issue where the gem reward after battle was displayed incorrectly

• Fixed a rare issue where the inventory could stop working if it got overfilled

• Fixed an issue where 'Deliverance' Ultimate description was not displayed correctly

• Fixed an issue with the 'Inheritance' Rune and Rune Circle Loadouts

• Fixed an issue where displayed gold was rounded up

• Fixed an issue where the 'Horror' Rune was not applying any damage

• Fixed an issue where the details for 'Punch' would not be displayed correctly

• Fixed an issue where the 'Toxic' Rune was not spreading poison correctly (it should deal more damage now)

• Fixed an issue where healing from the 'Kakapo Egg' Artifact was not affected by increases to heal from Runes

• Fixed a rare issue where the battle report was not shown correctly