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.
This game is gargantuan; the level of simulation is so high and the gameplay options are so many and so good that Dwarf Fortress is an absolute must-have for every videogame player interested in a territory-management simulation.
Managing all of this features is hard as hell, and I think it's almost impossible to start playing without counting on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki and all of its guides. Despite this, the game is so good that it deserves a 10 out of 10 mark.
This is already a milestone for this generation (it already inspired other successfull games, such as Minecraft), and will be an absolute classic in the times to come.