I don't feel like I could or would recommend this game, and i'm not sure i'm going to try to keep playing it.
Its effectivly a managment sandbox, there isn't really any over arching goal, and my 2nd town after learning from the mistakes in my first is in a lot better state, at about 4 hours, but i simply don't know what to do next, i even defeated the first boss, I was surpised to find the game has bosses, it wasn't great as the combat system is shallow.
So yeah, now what? keep building all the buildings for the sake of it, and expanding the population.
My first city, I ran into a few issues, brining in to many rats, starvation, slowly runing out of cash, but i gave up after being unable to resolve my Hygine and Sickness issue.
Basicly my rats had low hygine, I don't really understand why, there was a toilet, they barley used it,
I tried building the massage place, researched it,
Oh I need cloth, how do i get cloth weaving station, reaserached weaving station, ok, Build and get cloth, build massage table.
Oh i need Oil, how do i get oil, grinding stone, reaserached grinding stone, Ok,
Oh i need refined stone, how to i get that, Masonary, OK, reaseach and build Masonary,
Get refined stone, build grinder, start grinding oil.
by thin point rats had gone from slightly sick, to medium sickness, to deadly sickness, and were beoynd saving, i also trying to build the heal builds without much luck,
And thus i gave up on that city.
This pattern played out for most buildings I researched and attempted to build.
So, i think partly to blame here is the Reasech Tree, it isn't tree shapped, its several star shaped track split into several catagories, Services, Production, Royaltiy etc.
I effectivilty had no way of knowing the things i was reasearching required resources I couldn't produce,
If they had been in a single tree, with Tiers clearly showing resources, and having production buildings as prequisites, i would have been guided in the correct build/research order,
for example, the Massage Table could have required the Grinding Station and Weaving Station before it could be researched.
The Ratistrator System, probably needs improvment, I wanted to create a automatic group for rats with a certain trait, (Loves Mining) so i could legslated there task priority,
It doesn't filter based on Rat Traits, so I have to manually add rats when i recruit them.
Filters on lots of other stuff like jobs,.
One more thing,
The Porter Station, despite rats exsisting with the "Porter" Trait, you don't assign Rats to it, you pay a shrew to transport goods,
The relocation building option, similar thing, your rats don't perform the relocation, its performed by a mole you pay to do it.
This is Odd, in both cases your rats could realisitcally perform this work, but instead that gold leaves the econemy.
There are probably more odditys i have forgotten about.
Surface level, things look more complicated that they need to be, and it seems like things could be laid out and communicated batter.
