If you were interested in playing Dwarf Fortress, but found the insane learning curve too high: play this instead. You can basically figure out all the core loops of Dwarf Fortress with helpful tutorials and much more intuitive UIs, and if you want a deeper version of the same stuff, then maybe later try Dwarf Fortress.
They either need to increase the resolution of their pixel art, or have ASCII, because almost nothing apart from the terrain can be identified easily at a glance with the style they've gone for.Odd Realm. It seems to be a Initiation for Dwarf Fortress, but with UI. Here's hoping development keeps adding some depth to it