Been with this game since day 1, but I cannot recommend. The dev team are incredibly slow, with bugs persisting since launch that have yet to be fixed, and every update seems to break something else. It's a downwards spiral of instability. The devs also seem far too preoccupied with focusing on a few systems or parts of the game and neglecting everything else, so you have an incredibly intricate and cool castle builder, but it doesn't mean anything when the economy, resources, AI, and the rest of the game itself are broken beyond belief or still unfinished. We have resources in the game that have been there since the early days or even day 1 that STILL do not do anything, and have no crafting paths, so things like candles and cider are in the game, you have wax and apples, but you cannot do anything with them. So many resources are just complete dead-ends or don't work the way they should. They also did a complete overhaul of the UI and art for no reason, and this is exactly what I mean. It wasn't broken and it looked fine, it looked good, there was absolutely no reason why the UI needed a rework. They will spend an entire year on the game just focusing on reworking something that already exists, instead of expanding the rest of the game first.
Updates have also slowed to a crawl to the point that I'm having to take a break for like half a year, just to come back to play it for a few hours to discover what else is broken before putting it down and giving it another break.
I don't know what is happening behind the scenes but I suspect it has a lot to do with development bloat or pure incompetence, and I suggest the devs get their house in order if they want people to stick around. I also suggest that prospective buyers hold on to their money and don't give the devs a single penny, because this one game has made them millionaires overnight with barely anything to show for it. We keep telling the devs what they should focus on but they completely ghost us, don't listen, and don't interact with their players, then drop an update that addresses none of our concerns or wants. I don't even expect them to read this review or take anything from it.
FINISH. YOUR. GAME.
