A Game of Dwarves

It says I last played this game 9 years ago- huh?

I really love digging out tunnels in A Game of Dwarves, setting up little dwarven rooms, and watching your underground settlement grow across multiple vertical layers. I lost a few evenings to it without meaning to, which says something. That said, the game is clearly unfinished: dwarves stumble on staircases, the AI is borderline lobotomized, some Steam achievements are permanently broken due to level bugs, and the challenge basically evaporates once you're even slightly established. It's best approached as a relaxed sandbox dollhouse rather than any kind of strategy game — if you go in expecting Dungeon Keeper or Dwarf Fortress depth, you'll be disappointed fast. Grab it on a deep sale if the idea of decorating a cozy underground fort sounds appealing, but go in with low expectations.

The tutorial sucks. It cites things that are buried in menus. Instead of opening up options as you progress, like most tutorials, they just throw a bunch of stuff you don't need at the start and then want you to dig thru it all. Might as well just go to the first level. The controls suck. How do i rotate anything? No clue. can't build anything how or where i want it because i have absolutely no clue how to rotate the object I'm trying to place. Even how it pauses things automatically when i go to play something., its just annoying that i need to mash the space bar to keep the game going when i'm just messing around trying to place stuff. After spending an hour on it, i feel no desire to play it and feel I've progressed no where. Nothing about this game has hooked me or is unique in such a way for me to care to play it further. Given the age of the game, this one is getting thrown in the retired bin.

My cat just said hello.

It's a cute resource management / city builder game. Always come aback to it.

wasn't my kind of game. however even with my downvote (i wish there was a neutral vote) I'd recommend to those who like this genre of game.