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This game is a combo of simcity, sims and dungeon keeper. Simulation with objectives and detail. Practically no mouse! Complicated game but lots of tutorials including wikis and videos on utube. Graphics are available including much prettier tiles, an isometric viewer stonesence and even a full 3d viewer. However the interface is a huge pain to use. That is what is stopping me from playing the ga... read more

Description: [Link removed - login to see] Losing is fun. Has 3d/isometric viewer but no mouse. Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress is two games: the game it is right now, and the game it hopes to be. Its goal is to be nothing less than a fantasy world simulator, simulating tens of nations and hundreds of thousands of characters over a thousand years, where you can watch history unfold from a godlike perspective or take the role of any character or civilization and make history. And to cap it all, it intends to do it in ASCII character graphics. It's not there yet — it's technically still in alpha — but it already has about two [Link removed - login to see]
Losing is fun. Has 3d/isometric viewer but no mouse.

Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress is two games: the game it is right now, and the game it hopes to be. Its goal is to be nothing less than a fantasy world simulator, simulating tens of nations and hundreds of thousands of characters over a thousand years, where you can watch history unfold from a godlike perspective or take the role of any character or civilization and make history. And to cap it all, it intends to do it in ASCII character graphics.

It's not there yet — it's technically still in alpha — but it already has about two games worth of content, and an extremely fanatical fan base.

The main game is Fortress mode, which plays like a dizzyingly complex hybrid of Dungeon Keeper and The Sims, if all your little people were manic-depressive alcoholics. The Adventure mode is rougher and less polished, like a very freeform roguelike. Both modes have no way to win, but hundreds of ways to lose: the page quote is an unofficial motto.

Dwarf Fortress is free, with further development paid for by donations. You can find the game here, the invaluable gameplay wiki here (there are still a few sections that have not yet been updated for the new version), and some graphical tilesets here. ... (more) (less)