So I heard about this new "dwarf Fortress" game. Apparently, some dude was working on this his whole life without stopping, until he finally keeled over from natural causes. Looking at this game (and you will have to look pretty hard, since the graphics are older than radio), I'm surprised it took him that long to do it, considering he must have been living off of Red Bull Super and whatever potato chips were big Pre-war.
The reason I'm saying that is because despite the game looking like a word processor spazzing out it basically ate my HD whole and almost fried my graphics card. I'm payed to play games, so those are pretty BA cards, and I was confused as to why this happened. Eventually I'd come to find out that by limiting the Framerate I could run it and oh my god what is going on.
It took me a week to figure out how to dig a hole. It took me another week to figure out food. It took me a third week to actually survive the first year. But by that time, I wasn't seeing the word-salad graphics. I started seeing dwarves. I started seeing animals. I started seeing goblins, who immediately reamed my defenses like I was playing on hardcore. That's when I realized the game was entirely in iron-man mode and I just really lost for realsies.
After sobbing, I restarted and decided to work on bigger defenses. I built a thick wall; the goblins paused for abit and tunneled beneath. I built a moat; the goblins built a little bridge and busted open the crude drawbridge I had erected. I trained a squad of warrior dwarves in full armor. There were ten of them, and nine died.
You see, the thing that makes Dwarf Fortress interesting is that despite looking like dog shit (I cannot stress this enough the GAME HAS NO GRAPHICS AT ALL. AND IT FRIED MY CARD) things happen that when you can finally figure out what's going on, well, it's obscenely fun.
All in all, I'll give it a 7/10. I would rate it a 10/10, but after sitting latched onto my PC like a leech for a month and a half I need glasses and a new desktop. That was a Exabyte drive, dammit.
Regardless, it's a game that's hard to get into and even harder to let go. If you feel like taking a break from TES XI: Falreach's misty forests, or Elementals speedy gameplay, Dwarf Fortress is worth a try. Because, get this, it's free. And not just because the creator is dead. He seems to have lived off of donations, which says something about people in the good old days. Back in the 2010's, when life was easy and simple.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have just found a upright sword buried deep in my fort and I want to see what its stats are. Adamantine is good, I think.
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