I received a copy of dwarf fortress for my birthday, which is a bit like someone gifting you a musical instrument you don't play and going "hope you enjoy learning how to make anything that sounds good on this!", but I'm giving it my best shot anyways. Despite having played my fair share of ascii-based roguelikes, the sheer scale of Dwarf Fortress has always put me off from trying to learn it in earnest, it's a complicated enough game without the additional challenge of just learning how to parse things visually, so having a graphical tileset and an interface with some layering action really helps out my small, impatient brain.

