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.
Well, I've played this game near obsessively for close to four months. Yah, one of the most complex games ever, definitely only for a chosen few. Like those who enjoy ADOM and old MUDS for instance. Anyways, every game is insanely different, and stories are basically created each game. The world is procedurally generated, then hundreds of thousands of events occur with characters and civilizations all rising and falling. Events of which can effect your individual game. Where you start off with 7 dwarves (or orcs in my favoited mod: Masterwork) and start carving out a kingdom while you get invaded by Happy Fun Stuff. Let's see, what happened lately that was cool: well, my Ronin Uruk-Hai with 69 notable kills and 139 other kills named his sword. So now the sword starts creating its own history, like who wielded it, and what it has killed. Then later an engraver carved an image of the Ronin chopping down a forgotten beast, and a leather-worker created an artifact bonenmeal jug dedicated to the sword (which got its own name).