This is a crazy roguelike / sim / civ type of game with 2 modes of play: dwarf and adventurer. As dwarf, you delve into a mountainside and create your own fortress like Moria! As adventurer, it's a large open scale RPG like Oblivion. Generating the world alone takes 20 minutes or so.
This game is very deep, challenging and addicting, but has a steep learning curve.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
this tutorial on the penny arcade forums helps a lot to get started:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1073830597&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=a4898319b3f1ff0606e58d090c8793cf
and here's the wiki:
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Main_Page
oh yeah, it's free. It's an ASCII game though, so if you don't like ASCII don't play it. but you'll be missing a great game
This game is very deep, challenging and addicting, but has a steep learning curve.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
this tutorial on the penny arcade forums helps a lot to get started:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1073830597&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=a4898319b3f1ff0606e58d090c8793cf
and here's the wiki:
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Main_Page
oh yeah, it's free. It's an ASCII game though, so if you don't like ASCII don't play it. but you'll be missing a great game