I played it for a while, and another while, and another while.
I think it's really interesting and greatly amusing in many ways, but also flawed.
When Tarn added the elevations to outdoor terrain in adventure mode, I had a hard time figuring out the display and controls, which discouraged me.
I mainly liked playing adventure mode, and mainly just read about other people's stories and bug reports about managing fortresses, as that seemed to be more management than I wanted to do.
But I found adventure mode limited and annoying, especially because the combat system had messed up values. I even tried modding the equipment to fix the problems, but it wasn't really possible because there are just some extremely off parts to the combat mechanics. It was frustrating because I actually like several aspects of the combat system, but just when I'm getting into it, even with my modded values, some ranged attack will do UBER DAMAGE because it is a ranged attack and ranged attacks just sometimes do uber damage for no good reason.