Well, it isn't too far from it: if you play enough of it, and by enough I mean very much, chances are you won't catch what you misread. :P
Dwarf Fortress Isometric :P

Woohoo!

One of my favorite games!

Bought! Thank you!

Wow, I've played the beta for this a long time ago. Is the game finally a full version? :P

With my good lady recently losing her job and the car deciding that life is just too much to be betting on with at the moment, I'll have to pass for now. It's a shame because I had never checked this out before and after seeing it, instantly decided I wanted to play it. One day...

So after all this time it comes here.
Hardly the greatest example of the genre and it's been bundled 3 times and sold for $2.
So not quite an instabuy for me.

The trouble with dwarf fortress isn't the lack of graphics, it's the lack of usability. How does this fare on that front?

Gomoria , soundtrack sound like someone was a huge fan of Martin Galway.
For those that don't know this guy or his music:

google on his name,
check youtube and search for his name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDoGYlAzT7w
Jarre/Galway - Yie Ar Kung-Fu (C64) [Title Music]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmfnHjJ8iF8
Rambo:First Blood Part II-Commodore 64 Loader Music (Martin Galway)

rambo c64 game (tape first lateron a floppy disk 51/4)

thats the games my generation played (other had zx spectrum or cpc amstrad or similar)

For that era the music was excellent, but compared to full orchestra tracks nowadays, the choppy and metallic sounds/music were not benefitting my poor ears /brain(many headaches and other nasty things)
So thats why i stopped playing those games, and lateron we got better music on amiga cd32 (whol tracks that sounded like a james last orchestra which is better to listen to for hours then the metallic earbusting sounds)

When i compare them all to the music we hear on our gigantic HOG (hidden object games) and adventures
my ears and brain , accept the full stereo music better then that metallic sound, so the quality only improved over years.
So in the end the games i play today are better for my ears/eyes and 'brain :D
most 8bit sound were so metallic, guns , whips no matter what effect it al sounded the same: metallic with reverb.
Nowadays samples are much better, sound more like the real thing and are better for the ears.

i tried several managment games and i have to be honest: 99% was not what i expected to be...
regardles of the bad 8 bit graphics, its just not my style, i stick mainly to hiddenobject games (not the 3d versions)
and point and clickgames.
I have other managment games, but they call them cause they aren really managment games, they're more like time managment games (casual game(eg: bigfish sells many)

Hmmm... looks and sounds quite interesting, but I'm not sure if taking the complexity out of Dwarf Fortress isn't actually taking out most of what makes it fun too...

Plus the description makes it sounds like a complete rip off of DF.. homage is fine, but it sounds like they've just wholesale lifted all the mechanics from DF...
Not sure how I feel about that :/

That being said, wishlisted for now. I'll have to come back to it at a later date and see how I feel about it then.

???

Why the devs always force us to manage ugly, hairy and stupid dwarves, gnomes or imps ? Why not beautiful and smart elven babes ?

they do not need managing, they are quite capable on their own

Absolutely right! I bet no one would complain about a game where you have to manage beautiful elven babes. But ugly gnomes? That is basically screaming for a tirade of criticism.

Super Light Slim Edition.