[tacticalmook]

Ultima Ratio Regum, which makes this list, is a game that is easy to overlook because it looks like "just a Dwarf Fortress clone."

But Fortress-like is merely the foundation upon which the game is built. I would say the main innovative feature is it's a mystery generator, with a focus on the intersection of lost history (ruins, artefacts) with contemporary politics inside and between empires.

Where DF is very simulation focused, URR has made real steps forward for procedural and emergent _narrative_