Take the depth of Dwarf Fortress, add a bunch of lazy mages and update the interface to modern standards? That's Mage Tower in a nutshell. We're building something really ambitious - a world that you can build to your own whim, while carefully balancing resources, knowledge, and external threats.
Being a fan of DF, I was of course interest in this.
And it's looking pretty good for a start. As is there isnt' much to it. Which they mention, the only con would be, either mouse controls camrea movement or wasd controls camrea movement. Not both.
Obviously there isn't much to it at this point. However it runs, doesn't crash, and functions mostly as describe. Gameplay is about the same as drawing pictures, but again, I'm sure there is much more to come.
As always my rating is based on as the game is NOW, not how they/I/others hope it will be.