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The game is what it advertises itself as - pretty fun for a while!

My one complaint - it's too realistic, in that outsourcing is way more powerful than actually creating things in-house, so once you get to that point, it becomes the only logical option and you end up missing out on a large portion of the game just by doing the most efficient strategy

TIS-100 is a ton of fun, and keeps me entertained and frustrated for hours. I would absolutely recommend it to any developer or anyone with experience programming who likes solving puzzles.

Although staring at your screen can be frustrating at times, no amount of frustration compares to the satisfaction of finally getting a working solution, and it's no fault of the game. As any developer would agree, frustration is an inherent part of the process of writing code. The puzzles the game contains are very well-designed, and offer a unique challenge with the TIS-100 environment.

Although the instruction set you're given contains a lot of similarities to regular assembly code, the environment is what puts a twist on things. Instead of having just one or a few extremely powerful cores that run all of your instructions, you are given a set of 10-20 small "cores" (called "nodes") which only have access to a single private register, and can only hold a little under 20 instructions. Instead of putting all your code in one place, you're forced to break each problem down into smaller and smaller problems, and have nodes pass their results around to build a solution.

This means that even when you're posed with a familiar problem (e.g. finding the min and max value in a set), you have to approach your solution in a completely different way, leading to tons of fun and conversation with your best friend, Mr. Rubber Ducky.

Best RPG I've ever played. Honestly no complaints, I just need a better PC

Dwarf Fortress is an amazing sandbox that can be played in almost any way you want. I would highly highly recommend it to anyone who's interested.

DFHack is the cherry on top of the cake that takes Dwarf Fortress from something amazing to an absolute masterpiece. It includes a ton of tools that make it easier to navigate the game's complexity and get out of weird situations that arise from said complexity.

Playing Dwarf Fortress without DFHack is like trying to sail without GPS. Sure, you can do it, but why would you want to?

This game is amazing - would recommend. It has a lot of elements of a voxel game like Minecraft, but it's certainly no clone. The game diverges quite heavily from pretty much any other game I've played in a lot of ways.

The Skill Stars make it so that you have to rely on other players to produce and sell you some of the materials you'll need. Entire economies form because of this, and most players will run a business in their profession, like a restaurant, lumber shop, a masonry, etc.

There is a complex system for forming governments with laws, elected officials, and a ton more. You can create your own currencies, and even back them with actual items. You can designate zoned districts, run a hotel so other players don't have to build a house, and build pretty much whatever you want.

The variety of professions and specializations within those professions gives the game a ton of replay-ability on top of the fact that it's already a very replay-able game in its design and format. This is further compounded by the varying levels of cooperation, which can change the rate at which you gain skill stars and allow combinations of multiple professions. Plus, the game has mod support!

There are certainly bugs from time to time, but the game is brimming with content and the developers keep adding more! If "highly cooperative survival/crafting/building game with tons of content and optional doomsday crisis for motivation" sounds fun to you, give it a try!