Dwarf Fortress

[Bobreeder]

Anyone playing this? If you are not, I suggest you check it out. The best description I've read of it is (taken from tvtropes):

[It] plays like a dizzyingly complex hybrid of Dungeon Keeper and The Sims, if all your little people were manic-depressive alcoholics.

You make crops (outdoors or indoors), design living quarters and barracks, organize a military, make devious traps (often involving magma) and almost anything else you can think of with a little creativity. It is all ASCII art, but don't be fooled; it tracks individual body parts of every important living thing for wounds! If you don't like ASCII though, there are a lot of graphical packs to be found.

If you are already playing, I really want to see what cool projects you are working on at the moment! I'll post some screens from my own game later.

Links:
http://bay12games.com/dwarves/
main page for the game

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/
the forum

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
the wiki

The game is very complicated, and has a steep learning curve, so it might not be suitable for young-uns.

Strike the earth!

[Jhamin]

I've been addicted to this game for a few months now. (I'm still adapting to all the changes from the new version that came out a couple weeks ago)

I'm always a sucker for games that let you micromanage or let your empire run on it's own. Also, I love building elaborate pressurized water cannons to blow Goblins off cliff faces and into the river below. This game is right in the sweet spot for me.

[Bobreeder]

Haha, finding horrible ways to kill Goblins is always fun xD I haven't built anything amazing yet, only a pit that's a few z-levels deep, with a Great Eagle at the bottom. I strip the Goblins I've caught in cage traps, and throw them down. They break a few bones and then meet the Eagle...
I've just started planning a new fortress after finding a great spot with underground river (for water and towercap farms), magma pipe, hidden fun stuff (check on the wiki if you don't know and want to, it's a bit of a spoiler), bottomless pit and flux! My current plan is to try making it completely self-sufficient underground, so I can close up/cave in the entrance if I need to and still survive. Heck, if I'm lucky with the Bottomless Pit I might even manage to catch and tame myself a Giant Cave Spider for silk production ^^ I'm still playing the old version (waiting for bug fixes in the new one), so I won't have problems with forgotten beasts

[Jats605]

So its like 8 bit? Thats original nowadays

[Bobreeder]

Yeah, and the best part is that it's the most complex game I've played, hiding behind the ASCII graphics