Does anyone know of a more modern game in the same vein?
https://github.com/jasonrohrer/SleepIsDeath
The latest SleepIsDeath isn't compatible with the latest minorGems code unfortunately, so you might need to make some modifications.
https://github.com/jasonrohrer/minorGems
The build process is like this:
clone both repos
cd SleepIsDeath
./configure
make -C gameSource