While unfortunately will likely never have much of a mod scene unlike Crusader Kings, I've found it more engaging so far.

Having many different resources to manage plus the ability to have a lot more fingers in a lot more pies makes progress feel quicker and more satisfying.

If the developers feel working on moddability to the extent of the CK games is worthwhile enough, I would happily recommend it as a worthy competitor to CK, something especially valuable to me as it's not published by Paradox.

I don't think you can seduce people's wives though.

Honestly there are many similarities between this and CKIII. However, the style, the game-play and most of its features are just different enough for it to be unique and a more laid back experience. And the family management system is much better so I don't have to murder/disinherit my children so that my firstborn doesn't have to endure the consequences of our fiefdom fracturing because of my characters weak pullout game. 8/10.

It's just not terribly fun. The UI is hard to work out, the objectives don't always work, and the vast majority of the gameplay is 1) build a single building at a time, 2) respond to random events that pause the game, and 3) deal with bandits, which are trivial and just time consuming to handle. I considered increasing the difficulty, but that would just make the bandits more annoying, so... yeah, pass.

Woudl not recommend.