I'm gonna start by saying not enough people have given this game a fair shake.
I know the release was last June, however, it is EA and though the road map wasn't *entirely* accurate, they still delivered on Act II before the end of 2024 which I say is a HUGE win considering the amount of content that was expected vs dropped.
I played the game when it originally released and can agree that I was frustrated with the little amount of content that was available and the AGONIZINGLY slow story progression. One thing you need to take into consideration when playing this game is you are a STRANDED ASTRONAUT waiting on communication from a very unhelpful galactic organization. HEAVY ON THE WAITING.
Your game can only progress as fast as it progresses and truthfully it means waiting for the communications and just farming the days away on a barren planet.

TIME FOR PROS AND CONS may contain spoilers (I'm not very far yet, but farther than start)
Pros:
The games style is very cute and warm. The pixels don't hurt my eyes and there aren't any harsh patterns or flashing images that I have come across.
Collecting "intelligence" is very easy and only requires obtaining the new thing and telling the corresponding person about the new thing. Not very involved, but a nice easy mechanic.
The controls aren't complex. Even after unlocking bug catching it's not bad. I think the only complaint here is on Deck things are a little more difficult because you have to use the mouse to click on the bug and both joysticks are taken up already.

Cons:
Aside the obvious WAITING there are really only a few small things I can find at current to nit pick.
Character dialog. I get the same like 2 sentences for each person. I know I know, but honestly a little more variety would be nice. I hate having to talk to them every day and it's the same sentence over and over.
Mining.
I. HATE. MINESWEEPER. I've never understood how it works and despised it as a child. Little did I know it would come back to haunt me in a cute space farming game. I hope there is a new mining mini game in the future, but doubt they will change the whole mechanic. If you like minesweeper then you'll love mining, but as for me I'm just gonna delay having to mine as much as possible LOL
EDIT:
I found another con I'm not too fond of...When interacting with other characters on deck you have to be a certain distance away from them to be able to talk to them and in the case of some characters *cough cough* Sally *cough cough* there isn't enough space in their habitat to do so. NOT A GAME BREAKER, but annoying for sure.

That being said I definitely think it's worth revisiting the game or giving it a shot if you had your eye on it :)

I have had this game since it was first added to Steam, it looked really promising and I had high hopes for it, especially to play it on the Deck. It did stop being updated for a while and I assumed it was just another abandoned game.

Luckily, I was wrong though. The game is great so far and they have been working on more content and more updates. Needless to say, I have put quite a few hours into it in the past couple of weeks.

One piece of advice, the game has a veeerryyyy slow start. It will be dull at first, but it will all be worth it after a while.

Since the update last month, I've been obsessed with this game! It's still in Early Access, so it's definitely not perfect. But I really like the direction it's going in and am excited to see its progress!

Pros:
* Unique storyline and setting for this type of game
* Visually interesting
* People arriving after certain milestones adds variety and novelty
* LOTS of different crops available immediately
* Minigames make activities like mining feel less monotonous (though I've seen some people complain about not liking this feature)

Cons
* Repetitive NPC dialogue
* Insects respawn SUPER infrequently, and appear to stop completely in winter
* Inability to move items between the hotbar and main inventory is clunky.

Overall it's got tremendous potential and I'm very eager to see them build out things like romance, animal taming, and farm improvements!