Nah, you're absolutely right. This was more of a technical AI challenge than a fun game tbh. It lacks conflict or resource management to add any level of game to it. Right now it's pretty much just a building tech demo for the AI. Natural next step, to make it more interesting, would have been stockpiles, resource gathering and building requiring tools and resources, but I only had at most an hour to spare every day and had to scope for that ;-) Had I not built the 3D world, which added quite a bit of complexity, I would have been able to add more game into it I think.

Thank you for playing! I think you're confusing abyss with multiple height layers, which the game certainly fails to inform the player about adequately. Try pressing +/- keys or using the scroll-wheel to move the camera between layers, or click on the portraits of your minions to focus on them (camera will focus on their position and the same layer they're at). It's a 3D world presented in layered 2d planes ala Dwarf Fortress ;-)