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[cog disso]

Tolkienesque SimAnt.

[nuker w]

I'd probably describe it as a love letter to geologists and sadomasochists, signed in dwarf blood, sealed with cat tallow and a !!puppy spleen!!.

Oh hell. I can't help it. Sigged.

[Medicine Man]

SAAAAAAAAAAAATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! The game.


Yes I'm using a dead meme.

[Urist McIsaac]

The most confusing game you can ever show a person, also the best game I've ever played.

Praise be the Toadyone!

[Apsophos]

Just registered to answer this one.
When describing DF I usually use a cocktail recipe : (well, I think it can be improved)
 - mix Settlers, Dungeon Keeper and The Sims
 - shake, don't stir
 - skim off that so-called "graphics" foam that stays on the top
 - add a dose of replicating enzymes
 - wait for the enzymes to increase the content by a few orders of magnitude
 - have Fun

[MelloHero]

Welcome to the forum!

[Gatleos]

I think the quote by shadowform in my signature sums it up pretty well.

[Maulrus]

You can't really...it's like describing a rainbow to a blind person.  You can tell them the mechanics of it, but until they play, they won't UNDERSTAND.  (and even then, only maybe)

In all honesty, this is it. You can try to describe the glory of flaming puppies and tantrum spirals and elf-slaying magma traps, but it is impossible to understand the depth of this game until you are at least semi-proficient with the controls. Then you can start to scratch the surface of what can be done in DF, and only then can you really understand DF.

[KillerClowns]

"OK, that there is an ocean; the numbers represent its height of the water on the tile on a scale of one to seven.  At present, I'm... well, I'm trying to drain it dry."
"Wait, you can do that?  Why?"
"...I forgot.  There was a reason, initially, but I can't recall it right now.  At this point, it's because I can.  Which is pretty much Dwarf Fortress in a nutshell."

[ledgekindred]

"You know what a sim game is right?"
"Like simcity?"
"Yeah sort of like that.  Except it's a mountain fortress filled with drunken, surly, manic-depressive dwarves who are doing their very best to kill themselves while you try to keep them from dying long enough to build a successful fort and then you get bored and kill them all yourself.  And it's all in ascii graphics."
*silence*
"Just look at this: http://i.imgur.com/mHXiz.png"
"I still don't get it."
"Oh forget it."

[Urist McTaverish]

"You start with seven Dwarves.  You have to build a fortress.  Mind the stuff trying to kill everyone."

[katyrnyn]

Addictive Text-based Insanity.


I've also referred to it as "a 3D Circuit Simulator where the electrons are either insane or trying to kill you."