I'm not aware of any OSS DF alternatives, but it seems like every year or so I hear about new games hitting Steam that seem (to me) to have clearly been designe

I'm not aware of any OSS DF alternatives, but it seems like every year or so I hear about new games hitting Steam that seem (to me) to have clearly been designed by someone thinking "Let's see if I can make DF but with better graphics and ergonomics." Naturally they don't approach DF's depth, given how long Toady's been iterating. I don't hold that against them, but it seems like DF has the market cornered on sheer number of internal knobs to twist. Here are the main ones, I think (there are many others): 2014: gnomoria - http://gnomoria.com/ http://gnomoria.com/ 2015: prison architect - https://www.introversion.co.uk/prisonarchitect/pc.html https://www.introversion.co.uk/prisonarchitect/pc.html 2016: rimworld - https://rimworldgame.com/ https://rimworldgame.com/ 2017: stonehearth (alpha?) - http://www.stonehearth.net/ http://www.stonehearth.net/ None of these are open source, ofc, and my expectations for how long they receive updates is not high. Toady built his rep over decades. Aside: on the topic of hilariously complex, long lived, more or less open source games written on top of ridiculously poorly architected code with a tiny rabid fanbase - Space Station 13 deserves a mention. I'm confident that I've seen no other game like SS13 in my life. I can't even start to explain it. Please check out this high-level review of it if you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAHBexJxrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAHBexJxrE