Picked it up 90% off and was still disappointed. It plays like an Early Access game that still needs a lot of work. Most irritating thing is that the interface doesn't follow its own standards. The "continue" button? Sometimes on the left, sometimes in the middle, sometimes on the right. The "Assignments" +/- buttons on building details rejustifies the columns after one villager is added, moving the buttons. The keymap in general seems intentionally designed to make the player take their hand off the mouse and reach for the right side of the keyboard for every task... devs, PICK ONE. It's a mess that makes it a determined, immersion-breaking, slog to get past the interface to the game. And then when you do, the campaign mode seems to end every episode right after it teaches the new elements. Ok, nice tutorial, *where's the game*?
The story, such as it is, for the campaign goes *really* dark on the villain, to such an extent that, parents take note, this is not a game for kids... unless you raise your kids on original Brothers Grimm, or maybe Clive Barker.
Followup: Yep, abandoned by the developer(s). I should've read the comments.
Once I had finished 'campaign' mode (which is ridiculously short), I thought I'd try to pick up the last few achievements. One of them apparently is just for staying on the main menu screen for a while, so that was easy. The last two, fifty houses and 100 people, are not achievable because a game bug of seasons flashing by in seconds, resources do not produce, and population stays stuck at 29, followed by starving because *eating* still happens even though food production stops. Oh, and I finished the campaign levels each time with less than 20 people, partly because it never explained how houses work. Yeah, I'm done. Not only do I want my $2 back, which Steam won't do, I want my TIME back too which is also not happening.
