Agree. I also bought it a few weeks ago and already poured 190 hours in it.

There is a lot to learn at first, but I like its complexity.

I think those of us, who like the game should leave a positive review here on steam.

There were some recent negative ones, that come mostly from players, who didn't understand the game, didn't do the tutorial missions and refused to ask for help here in the forum (from what I've seen so far, this is a kind and helpful community). Sadly, those negative reviewers blame the game and dev for their own dumbness
This resulted in a mixed recent rating.

Afaik, this is just one dev, working on this game on his spare time besides his job. Mixed or even bad ratings do harm such small indie devs, as steam algorithm can be unforgiving, leading to bad visibility in the store and thus bad sales.

I think this game doesn't deserve such a bad rating, dev did a great job on this game.
Never seen a game of this kind before.

Does it get better? I just started and managed to fail the tutorial by giving yarn to the wrong family and now I can't progress because they don't have materials to build the last fishing net. I'm of half a mind to refund it.

I was kind of hoping for a more simcity-like experience of ruling the peasants by zoning out their property instead of being their interior designer and telling them where to put their chairs and tables.

Originally posted by Nainara:

Does it get better? I just started and managed to fail the tutorial by giving yarn to the wrong family and now I can't progress because they don't have materials to build the last fishing net. I'm of half a mind to refund it.

You can just seize it back (unless they somehow used it, but early in the tutorial fishers are about the only ones with a use for yarn as i can remember), they'll be a lil salty but will survive.

Personally, I was blown away about how much depth this game has, that increased with each tutorial level. Definitely didn't expect that.

You can create and save blueprints for everything. I did that with the houses, so every house had the same layout (-> make zones visible, select house and click on that icon that looks like a blueprint paper. On the bottom right bar, there is a menu where you can find all your saved blueprints, for easy & quick placement).

As for your yarn problem, I don't quite remember which level that was. In the early levels, most functions aren't there, because the game teaches you step by step every mechanic.

So if you're now out of yarn, you could try to confiscate the yarn back from that wrong family (it's another tab next to the one you used to give it, with a red arrow that says confiscate or smth. like that). But it could also be the case that you have no such tab yet, as it unlocks later.

Otherwise just restart the level. The tutorial levels are not that long and I recommend to do only the bare minimum, that the game ask you to do, nothing more. The only purpose of the tutorials is that you learn the game, so it wants you just to do it one time so you understand how to do it. Don't waste time with decorating things or doing more than the game asks for.
You can do all that later in your custom game.

Also, imo I think you don't necessarily need to do all tutorial levels (I only did half of it). At some point you feel that you got the hang of it. And if not, you can always come back and do them later, as they indeed explain you the game very well.

Originally posted by kiska87:

Agree. I also bought it a few weeks ago and already poured 190 hours in it.

There is a lot to learn at first, but I like its complexity.

I think those of us, who like the game should leave a positive review here on steam.

There were some recent negative ones, that come mostly from players, who didn't understand the game, didn't do the tutorial missions and refused to ask for help here in the forum (from what I've seen so far, this is a kind and helpful community). Sadly, those negative reviewers blame the game and dev for their own dumbness
This resulted in a mixed recent rating.

Afaik, this is just one dev, working on this game on his spare time besides his job. Mixed or even bad ratings do harm such small indie devs, as steam algorithm can be unforgiving, leading to bad visibility in the store and thus bad sales.

I think this game doesn't deserve such a bad rating, dev did a great job on this game.
Never seen a game of this kind before.

I agree. I did the same at first, started a new game without doing the tutorial and got lost pretty fast lol

But the tutorials maps are pretty well made, they are a MUST 'cause the game gameplay is so different that most of us won't understand a thing. I first thougt it was like Rimworld and said "I got this"

Kudos to everyone, who took the time to write a positive review
Because of that, the rating has changed from 'mixed' to 'mostly positive'.