In its current state, I can't really recommend it. It needs a lot of balancing to make the game work right. I play a lot of these types of games, but this one is very unforgiving even on low difficulties. There are too many things that can go wrong and it takes too long to correct your mistakes. Ultimately, leading to failed games that can't be corrected. I tried to "get gud" but, yeah...
My first save (a long time ago), I upgraded my buildings too quickly, didn't really understand how house plot sizes worked and ultimately starved to death. My second save, I went into farming too early and devoted all my resources towards that because of how involved it is; ran out of tools and firewood.
My third save, the start was perfect, everything went really well until I was ready to branch out and start a new settlement. I was going to diversify my towns thinking that's the way to go and that I could comfortably trade between my settlements for the things that each town was lacking. Well, the bartering system is very lacking, to the point where one town will get a massive surplus of items and the other town will get 0. You can try to use the trading post to trade between your towns, but that costs regional money. Trading posts have their own issues, which is that they are very stingy (if you need to buy from outside merchants, the cost difference between buying and selling is 5-10 times as much to buy sometimes) and the prices are extremely in-balanced (you can sell a sword for 6 silver, but buying a sack of flour is 11). Needless to say, I ran out of everything and there was no real way to correct it.
My fourth save and this is where I ended up quitting, was a save that was pretty far along, I had gotten 3 different regions going (rich iron, rich salt, rich stone), and was just about to start doing some farming in a fourth region. Well, the update now requires animals to eat food during winter and pasture sizes were reduce a lot. I didn't have animal feed nor space for all the animals (I had to quickly build another pasture, but that takes time to build... I save scummed a couple times to come up with a plan/space that worked to save them from running away). I then tried to quickly buy some animal feed, but it costs an arm and a leg to buy them from the trader (and the trader is way too slow anyway). And just like that, all my sheep died in ~one month. This one, I kind of understand, it was a good update and I was actually looking forward to this as it adds new items to game for more flexibility (cows instead of goats for milk, mead and cider instead of only ale, etc.) and it's still in EA. But, because of all the other things put together and how quickly things can go wrong without any realistic way to turn things around, made the update unfun to play for me.
I'll hold off for the 1.0 release, where hopefully these balancing issues are addressed. Although, I kind of don't think they will (some of these seem to be deliberate choices by the devs).
