I don't think this game should be marketed as a colony sim - there is no housing, no generations, etc. This is a resource management game, and that's it. And once you get the hang of the resource management part, you're scrolling on your phone while the game runs in the background, just waiting for some sort of popup that you have to deal with.

For example, when all of your workers die for no reason, and now you have to replace them with new workers. BUT each worker starts at Tier 1 and must be upgraded to tiers 2, 3, and 4, which require resources for every single one of them. So you're constantly having to maintain enough resources to upgrade every villager - and at one point I had over 300 villagers. This would be fine if they died one at a time from something I could prevent. But I would have TONS of food, markets next to every building (because they will starve to death walking from their workplace to the market if it's not close enough) and it wouldn't matter, they'd just all drop dead at the same time. What is it? Old age? I "purchased" them all at the same time, so that's why they drop dead at the same time? Who knows.

And not all resources can be found on your main island, so you have to expand to other islands, which basically is a way for the game to make it last longer because you have to start from scratch, and now have to start stockpiling twice the amount of resources, then three times the amount, four times the amount, for each additional island. BUT you get ships! That will transfer goods! But only if you put each thing you want sent in the exact right spot, otherwise nothing happens, everything breaks, and they start throwing items overboard.

Anyway, if you love making spreadsheets and coming up with efficient ways of managing resources, this might be the game for you. But probably not for $20. I'd wait until it went on sale, for sure.