At least he’s pretty based for someone in the niche of nerdy ass games. He said BLM during the 2020 protests and during the Palestinian protests in ‘21 he said Free Palestine, that US was backing an apartheid, and gave a bunch of resources to donate to Palestinians. Good guy and you should purchase his game because it’s pretty cool.
I've played a lot of Rimworld but was leery about how impenetrable DF looks.
It's really not impenetrable. The interface is jank but it's not hard to use. It's so weird and unintuitive specifically because it's optimized to be easy / quick to use by people who already know what they're doing. So once you get over the initial hump it's not hard to play at all.
Either way, the Steam version is out now and it's supposed to have a more intuitive interface. Haven't tried it yet, but it might be a good time to get into it.