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well actually when you play as cave swallow man you cant fly sorry. So you guys want dwarf? I put a list here so you can chose better: of course there is elves, humans, and dwarfs and then I added: goblins, kobolds, gremlins, giants, minotaurs, cyclopes, trolls, ogres, dragons, bronze colossi, amphibian man, reptile man, serpent man, bat man, ant man, cave swallow man, and cave fish man. There is your choice.

Seriously, Urist McKiddo moved to my fort with his family, wondering what sort of adventures he'll go on. First thing he knows, mommy and daddy are skewered on metal spikes, and he's told he now lives in a room with three other big, sweaty dwarves that he's never met before. He lies awake at night, crying about how cruel life is, only to get a sock thrown at his head and told to shut up because Urist McMiner wants to sleep.

This day I installed it my 6 yrs old son asked me If he can have this game as well.  He is barely able to read in our native language - which as all of you already know from my language skill presented here - is  different from English.  I thought he would not be able to play it  neither this game will be fun for him for long time. First time he was only digging horizontal tunnels as long as his food was depleted and dwarwes stopped to dig :-P ..  but later .... I cannot say DF is his only game. He won Starcraft 2 single player already and playing ladder with bellow average results, he won Mass Effect I and II -  and few more games - but few times per every month he  visits my room and asks me - "Father, Why my dwarf attack others?  Or something else from DF. And then we go to his room and he learns few new tricks about DF.   
Now at his 7 years he can read slow but well in native language but also he can read and understand many  english words - only because of DF. If you let him to start new Fortress he can build  the very basic one with storages inside, basic workshops, doors, beds, basic rooms for his dwarfs using 2 or 3  levels, mining some diamonds and store them in own made bins, create still  and  distile some beer to  own made barels  - everything by his own.  None of  couple recent modern games forced him to  ask me about "what means word XXX"  - he won  his recent  modern  games just by Try to click icon by mouse and watch what is going to happen.  Last  weekend  he watched me to play and asked me  what is "Farm Plot" - so another step was made and he now can flood room using  small underground lake and  start his own farming fun.