A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast

We’ve got fort updates, strange characters, and artifacts galore! Drew tells us about his monster encounters, and Kristin shares her new favorite weirdo, Shem the Shirtless Fisherdwarf. As a bonus at the end, we talk a little about some other games we’ve tried, including Elin, the game that feels like Adventure Mode! Extra Info: Transcript (see README for […]

“For Gods Sake, Someone Pull The Lever!” Today we’re visited by a very special guest, who brings along his process, stories and great Dwarfy tips! Stick around in the episode for another great bop? ditty? (idk, I’m old – Drew) from Stephen! Extra Info: Transcript (see README for more details)

This week, we actually played Dwarf Fortress! Drew has a cool new fort with some artifacts, and Kristin has a new fort that will be cool eventually, probably… hopefully? For the start of spooky season, Kristin talks about Mind Over Magic. And finally, Drew tells us all about Amazing Cultivation Simulator and how it doesn’t […]

We’ve got a special episode all about Critter Cove! This is 100% a Kristin Game, with cute creatures, exploration, crafting, and much more! We tell you all about the game and then discuss the concept of early access, and our experiences with games in development. Note that Kristin raises some questions about game features and […]

We’re back with an update about all the games we’ve been playing. There are dwarves, we promise! Extra Info: Transcript (see README for more details)

We’re alive! We’ve returned briefly from our summer interlude to discuss what we’ve been up to, and Drew tells us all about his recent Rimworld experience. We’ll be back soon with more dwarfy goodness, we promise! Extra Info: Transcript (see README for more details)

We’re back from summer break! Kind of! Indiana is going crazy in the heat, yo, but we’re staying cool with Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, and all the good settlement games available right now. Extra Info: Transcript (see README for more details)

Kristin starts settling a volcano start location, and realizes it’s a bit more fun than she thought it’d be. Drew continues with the adventure mode beta, making best friends with a hermit-crab-man and his platonic life partner, a master swordsman squirrel-man. Together with their cuddly pet giant war turtle and giant war bear they attempt […]

We’re back, this time with more goblin murder! We talk in the first 20ish minutes about adventure mode, some of the reactions we’ve seen to it, and how we’re feeling about the current state of the beta. Then, in the last 40ish minutes, you can hear us create an adventurer and almost immediately become murder […]

We’ve got so much going on! Drew has a metropolis, Kristin has a city, and we have all the encounters that go along with a larger population! Forgotten beasts, creepy underworld creatures, and artifacts galore. Plus, we talk a little about the Stardew Valley update and probably way too much about what manga and anime […]