Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The world is randomly generated with distinct civilizations spanning over 1000 years of detailed history, dozens of towns, hundreds of caves and regions with various wildlife. Command your dwarves as they search for wealth in the mountain. Play an adventurer and explore, quest for glory or seek vengeance. Extended ASCII character set rendered in 16 colors (including black) as well as 8 background colors (including black). Although Dwarf Fortress is still in a work in progress, many features have already been implemented. Please post all support issues in the forums for the game.
Just... just an amazingly fun game. Once you get pas the learning curve
(or should i say cliff) it is by far the best indie game you will ever play, past Minecraft, Terraria, ect. (yes i have played all of them). Download this game (I would recommend getting off of the official site though), get the Lazy Newb Pack if you don't want the ASCII graphics, watch captnduck's youtube tutorials for a hour or two, then play and figure out the rest of the game as you go. Once you get into this extremely immersive game, every other game you play will seem 'just okay' compared to this masterpiece.