We Are the Dwarves is a real-time tactics video game developed and published by Kyiv-based Whale Rock Games.^[1] It was first released in 2016 and is about a trio of spacefaring dwarves who must save their homeland.

A race of spacefaring dwarves discover their sun is dying. Three dwarven kingdoms jointly send an expedition to find a new home. Instead of empty space, the universe is filled with stone, and new planets exist inside caves. Players control three dwarves, each of whom has unique skills and a different focus, representing one of the dwarven kingdoms. Smashfist uses melee weapons, Forcer is a ranged specialist, and Shadow attacks from stealth. Players initially control one dwarf at a time and later control the entire team. Some of the missions have stealth game elements.^[2] It is a real-time tactics game^[3] that can be paused to issue commands.^[2]

The developers, Whale Rock Games, were influenced by the Commandos video game series and R. A. Salvatore's novels about Drizzt Do'Urden. The idea to make a video game about dwarves came first, and they added a universe made of stone for the dwarves to mine and explore.^[2] Whale Rock Games failed to fund the game via Kickstarter in 2014, but it was accepted into the Steam Greenlight program.^[4][5] It was released for PCs on February 26, 2016,^[3] for Xbox One on February 24, 2017,^[6] and PlayStation 4 on March 28, 2017.^[7]

We Are the Dwarves received mixed reviews on Metacritic.^[8][9] Although they said the game "shouldn’t be completely dismissed", Hardcore Gamer called it "viciously unfair" and recommended it only to hardcore fans of the genre.^[10] Digitally Downloaded said it is "different, interesting, and often quite clever".^[11] 4Players criticized the game balance.^[12]