I bought it and played for three straight days.
It's a little This War of Mine, a dash of Sheltered 2, a pinch of Mr Prepper, a sprinkle of Sims, and some Romance VN to taste, all simmered in a zombie apocalypse sauce.
You have limited resources. You need to reinforce your house and manage your needs. You can go looting for more resources to build better things to reinforce your house and manage your needs better. You get attacked. There are random events (good and bad). There's lore, and scattered notes to find with story.
For replayability; there's an endless mode, sure. There's also two (currently) unlockable characters, who add new houses and new mechanics and approaches in their own styles. There are also 8 (currently) endings. So far, I've only found 'get out alive', the basic one, and 'find out how this started', which I haven't reached the end of yet.
The Devs are active and keep updating things; the UI, the action keys, maps, looting, interactions, QoL stuff. There have been two or maybe three updates in the week I've had the game.
Does it get repetitive? Sure; if you just grind through surviving and nothing more. There's actually some cosy elements to it, where you can redesign your home, move your furniture, and develop other things than just 'eat enough to live and board up the windows'. Kind of like the SIms gets repetitive if you just feed them, send them to work, and then to bed. There's a lot of other stuff here. Plus achievements to work on when you're really at a loss for anything else for a few in-game days.
Hard recommend if any of the points I've made sound like the kinda thing you'd enjoy. It's not fully polished yet, sure, but it's improving fast with player input, and it *is* a whole game, not a playable EA. So even getting it now, and working through the bugs and hiccups to have a shot at input into the Dev's updates, can be worth it if you have specific things you want in a game.
