Bay 12 Games

Profile updated Jun 2026

Bay 12 Games is the developer behind Dwarf Fortress, with 1 title on Steam and 31,096 total reviews. Its indielist catalog centers on the Indie genre, making Bay 12 Games games relevant for readers tracking Indie developers by Steam review volume.

Bay 12 Games is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 1 title by Bay 12 Games, together holding 31,114 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is Dwarf Fortress, which holds 31,114 Steam reviews (2022). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 1 publisher, including Kitfox Games. indielist tracks releases from Bay 12 Games starting in 2022. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind Bay 12 Games can be audited rather than taken on trust.

On the business side, Bay 12 Games has shipped with 1 publisher (Kitfox Games), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around Bay 12 Games can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.