Im sure at least a few of you have heard/seen/played it allready, but its a pretty sweet game. An ASCII roguelike/simcity. The meat of it is that you generate a world (takes about 20 minutes), and take your little band of dwarves off to a cliff face in that world to build a settlement carved into the rock. You face all kinds of mundane tasks such as food gathering, shop building and resource management. But its oh so much fun. You cant controll your Dwarves directly, but can set what jobs functions you want them to do and they go off on their merry little way. They all have personalities and from time to time, can go insaine if the conditions are correct. Its a blast to watch everything unfold. Its like an ant farm.
But that not the onl ymode you can play in. Theres an adventure mode where you take your little guy off to explore the world and lore you generated. Combat is very detailed. Its a hoot to wrestle a giant into submission and beat your other opponets senseless with his corpse.
But my post cant do this game justice. I had a hard time getting into it at first because of the ASCII interface, but after about an hour and learning what everything did, i really got into it (was up till 2am this morning). You really get the feel for the interface after a bit and its really a non issue.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Main_Page
play it now!
But that not the onl ymode you can play in. Theres an adventure mode where you take your little guy off to explore the world and lore you generated. Combat is very detailed. Its a hoot to wrestle a giant into submission and beat your other opponets senseless with his corpse.
But my post cant do this game justice. I had a hard time getting into it at first because of the ASCII interface, but after about an hour and learning what everything did, i really got into it (was up till 2am this morning). You really get the feel for the interface after a bit and its really a non issue.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Main_Page
play it now!