Diggles is one of my favorite games. Easy to sink in hundreds of hours and lose track of time (probably because of the slow pace and the learning curve to become efficient grinding the tech tree). I used to replay the game from the beginning often cause it's more relaxing than managing 20 dwarves that are all on strike unwilling to cook food because they're hungry. You need to always watch those food stocks and keep them varied. Also, be careful not to unlock tiers of leisure buildings until you're ready to build them because the dwarves come to expect a higher standard of living as soon as they know it's possible. I have this on physical disk, but always had to install a Windows XP VM to get it to play correctly. But with the GOG version, I was able to just install on Windows 11 and it worked! Pros: * No more complex installation and update troubleshooting with GOG port. * It somehow makes micromanagement fun, but also the dwarves will pick up tasks to do on their own (after 11 seconds idle, weird how they coded that). So if your production queues are in good balance they *can* manage for themselves. * Randomly-generated layouts make every replay a challenge to get all your buildings aligned efficiently when the cave sizes are restricted randomly, but you can save scum when you're digging since the randomness is decided only as you're digging in that direction. Cons: * Game can be buggy. You can create multiple saves and when you notice that your dwarves are stuck tring to "Pick hamster 26" inside of a wall, maybe you can load to before the hamster got stuck there, otherwise, there are console command guides for `del 26` to fix the games TCL code while you play it. * Death spiral if you screw up your food production priorities, but you could say this is actually a Pro if you like Dwarf Fortress and all the "fun" you can have there.
