Been recently really addicted to this game, but now I've pretty much "finished" it which is to say, once you gain the Automatons you can get more jobs done by going well over the population cap. Especially as the Gnomes seem to be unable to breed.

The learning curve can be a bit steep, especially when you run into golems and it's not obvious what to do so it's similar to Banished in that form. However I do have a few gripes.

Mushrooms.

Now you have the option to have a underground farm and there is only the Mushrooms. Now at first this sounds simple like normal farms that need to be on the highest clear elevation so that they get sunlight so the underground ones much have shelter above and that's it, right? Nope.

There's guides specific for this because attempting to build them is so difficult because you need the dirt to be mud. This obviously happens due to water, however if it's sheltered where are you going to get the water from? The best guide has been creating holes above so rain falls down these falls and creates mud-pots. However, the areas exposed then become grass so they can't become mud.

The only other option is, through the invention tech-tree, you can build a pump to draw up water up and into the farm, but this has it's own sets of problems as all soil absorbs the water so you need to find a particularly huge area of water or find some genius way to move the water across, which is just so annoying.

Again, very fun and addictive sim game with a learning curve, but not as harsh of a learning curve as say, Banished.