For those who for some reason have never heard of Dwarf Fortress. Imagine a game that is an RTS, the Sims, Dungeons and Dragons, and Simcity all combined to make the ultimate open ended game. It is a game where you can have massive LOTR like battles of Dwarfs, Elves, Humans, Goblins, and Kobolds. Or you can accidentally awaken a fellbeast that will come through and destroy your entire community. Or simply watch as a thousand year old Bronze Colossus that is worshiped as a god, become a vampire and go into the ocean to fight sea monsters. BUT it looks like this:
Dwarf Fortress is the most complicated game I have ever played, yes moreso than Falcon 4.0. My first game I did not even make it through the first month - my Dwarves were visited by a caravan who had a caged Ape that escaped and killed everyone. In recent games, I have had my fortress survive for a year or two, usually dying of starvation. I have played this game on and off for the last decade, and still never made it through more than a year of ingame time. It is in forever beta but is always being updated by the sole programmer. Best of all it is free.
Recently I have been using it to generate worlds, then I go through and read random legends. That has been equally entertaining to me as playing the actual game. It is like reading incomplete histories from a lost world the size of New Jersey.
So anyone else got the DF bug?
