Granted, graphic packs that overhaul the game's messy ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, the way in which text is encoded on computers) art style have long been available unofficially, but anyone who installs the game on Steam right now will still be greeted by an arcane world of symbols representing geography, resources, enemies, and their misadventurous dwarven charges. The always-improving game's near-incomprehensible text art has long been many players' main obstacle into mining deeper into the ore-rich mountain that it Dwarf Fortress, and now they're getting their chance at last. One of the most complex video games ever made, Dwarf Fortress, is finally replacing its signature ASCII art with tiles that resemble actual graphics, and it looks so, so much better than before.
