I never played the originall ascii version of the game, but saw this review talking about new version and had to run to steam and buy it. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/dwarf-fortress-on-steam-now-officially-available-for-linux/
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I've never played it but I went down a rabbit hole watching interviews with the creators/brothers because they seem weird in all the right ways.