Hello Mighty Thanes!

We’ve just released DwarfHeim: Friend-Pass. Your friends can now play DwarfHeim's Survival mode through this companion app.

Now you may be wondering how you set this up? Well never fear! We have the answer for you below! The first 2 things to be aware of is that 1) One member of the part must own the full game and 2) there is a 5 game cap for free users.

Whether you own DwarfHeim and want to convince your friends to play or, you want to try it out before buying, we have all the info you’ll need! So let’s get started…

DwarfHeim owner

1. Start by opening DwarfHeim , there you will see a new button that looks like this in the middle left of the start menu

2. Press it and you get a new menu

3. To make a room for your friendpass friend , press create room.
If you want to join another player and his friendpass friend you can press join room

4. When you create a room a new window will open that looks like this

5. Here you can manually copy the code, or press the copy button that the red arrow is pointing at.

6. Now that you have the code you can send it to your friend.
When your friend has added the code they will be able to choose what class they want to play as in the Survival Mode, when they have chosen their class they press ready. Now they wait for you to make the rest of the decisions like select map and difficulty you.

When you both have readied up a match will be found and you are ready to play.

Friendpass owner

1. Get the friendpass version of DwarfHeim on the store page of DwarfHeim on Steam

2. When that is installed and you start the game you will be greeted with this

3. Here you have the option to play the Tutorials of DwarfHeim, Buy DwarfHeim and also insert your friends Friend-Pass Code (mentioned above)

4. When you have entered the Friend-Pass Code you press the Join Room button underneath and you will show up in your friends lobby, here you can choose what class you want to play in the coming Survival Match with your friend.

5. Now that you have found your class ,all you need to do is press the ready button and wait for your friend(s) to do the same.

And there you have it! Easy steps to get the RTS action started.

We’re very excited for you and your friends to try Friend-Pass and hope they enjoy the experience. Please let us know if the content updates improve your DwarfHeim experience! You can find the full list of improvements made since our Early Access Release on the DwarfHeim Discord, be sure to let us know if you have any feedback or questions!

*Edit to clarify there is a 5 game limit per free user.
**A game is counted if it reaches the 10 minute mark.