To be honest I feel dwarves don't have that much potential at all, it's just one very specific stereotype and there is only so much that can be done with it. yet developpers have this obsession of wanting to try every single thing with dwarves and use them for every single games and every single variation of the same genre. Hell even the names are just annoying, dwarven this, dwarven that,...

This looks very artificial, because you were never meant to make every sort of game using only dwarves for some reason, hell even for underground games you could use other races and not always the same thing. The worst part is this has been going on for years and it's not stopping, everyone is still obsessed with making yet more games on dwarves, even if people are sick of them, even if they do not sell, even if they are told dwarves have been overdone. I don't even know what to say at this point, not everything should be about dwarves, it's time to put an end to all that and maybe, just maybe give love to forgotten races like elves who mind you don't have games on them and unlike dwarves have an ENORMOUS potential.

I can only agree, I never liked dwarves that much and in many universes like warcraft, lord of the rings and others dwarves are not given a lot of attention because there isn't a lot of interesting things with them. But for some reason, or maybe because people think the majority of people love dwarves and not just a few loud and noisy fans, everybody makes games on dwarves, they are everywhere. And the worst part is that it's always the same thing, the same names, designs, characters, mechanics,... All of them barely different copy of some very boring and overdone theme.

I can't say this will come to an end either, it has been going for years, players are showing by not buying those games who all fail badly btw that they want something new and daring, yet people keep making games on dwarves... As for elves in gaming I doubt anyone would ever dare to make a game centered on elves, i feel it would be too complicated and nobody would ever attempt that, there is a limit to what you can ask people to do.