I think what he meant is that the game is usually at beta quality - which is to say, it has funky bugs sometimes but it&#x27;s rare that it corrupts your saves or lights your computer on fire - so this &quot;beta&quot; release is actually closer to another piece of software&#x27;s alpha level of quality.<p>I&#x27;d call this release an alpha. Either pick up the previous release, which is solidly in stable-beta territory and is only not an RC because DF&#x27;s features list is approximately as long as the equator, or wait a bit until this alpha reaches beta status again.