Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. Although Dwarf Fortress is still in a work in progress, many features have already been implemented.

~The world is randomly generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, hundreds of towns, caves and regions with various wildlife. ~The world persists as long as you like, over many games, recording historical events and tracking changes. ~Command your dwarves as they search for wealth in the mountain. -Craft treasures and furniture from many materials and improve these objects with precious metals, jewels and more. -Defend yourself against attacks from hostile civilizations, the wilderness, the depths, the dead and creatures of the night. -Support the nobility as they make demands of your populace. -Keep your dwarves happy and read their thoughts as they work and relax. -Z coordinate allows you to dig out fortresses with multiple levels. Build towers or conquer the underworld. -Build floodgates to divert water for farming or to drown your adversaries... and don't forget the magma! -Surgery, sutures, splints, crutches and more: care for your wounded dwarves instead of leaving them to fend for themselves. -Much much more...

~Play an adventurer and explore, quest for glory or seek vengeance. -Meet adversaries from previous games.

• Recruit people to come with you on your journey. -Explore without cumbersome plot restrictions -- thriving capitals, villages, catacombs, labyrinths, bandit camps, caves and more! -Seamlessly wander the world or travel more rapidly on the region map. -Travel by day and search for a place to shelter as night falls. -Accept quests from the town and civilization leaders. -Retire and meet your old characters. Bring them along on an adventure with a new character or reactivate them and play directly. -Z coordinate allows you to move between twisting underground caverns and scale structures, fighting adversaries above and below. -Earn a reputation as a hero with the various civilizations in the world. -Steal a mummy's treasure or learn the secrets of life and death at a necromancer's tower.

~The combat model uses skills, body parts, individual tissues, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, one-time opportunities, charging and dodging between squares, bleeding, pain, nausea, various poison effects and much more.

~A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity and air masses to create fronts, clouds, rain storms and blizzards.

~Over two hundred rock and mineral types are incorporated into the world, placed in their proper geological environments.

~Add new creatures, weapons, plants, metals and other objects via modifiable text files.

~Extended ASCII character set rendered in 16 colors (including black) as well as 8 background colors (including black).