I have been locked in to this game so after 80+ hours, it deserves a review.
The art styles are beautiful. At first I was a bit thrown by the inability to rotate the map and buildings, but very quickly got past that. After playing a short while, placing buildings and figuring things out, you forget you even wanted to rotate anything. I was also very happy to discover how easy it was to play with a dualshock controller.

Onbu is even more adorable than expected. It has been a small dopamine boost every time Onbu yawns or gets pets. I still have not had the heart to play in a way that would hurt Onbu at all, and for a while I was concerned this would limit how far I could get. After some strategy and rearranging, I figured out a system to make sure I could sustain more than enough villagers than needed (for both population badges), keeping their happiness levels very high, all still without hurting the cute creature.

I have only played the easy level, since I wanted something relaxing that I could zone out and play, and this game has been perfect. Even on an easy difficulty level, when you get to the higher populations you have to constantly pay attention to Onbu, the map, and your village. It becomes a fun, but delicate, balancing act.
Many of the questions or concerns I had throughout the game have been pretty much solved as I continued to play and figure things out, even 600+ game days in, so I highly recommend this game.

I'm not even into civ sims but this is just really good

the concept of a civilization on top of a creature that it must maintain while the creature ventures into more and more treacherous land is cool and executed exellently, I love the 2D-3D artstyle and the way that the camera moves when zooming to/from different views looks incredible.

if I had to criticize, progression definitely gets slow after a while, and your population tends to balloon faster than you can manage. Also, while it makes sense why this is the case, the area you work with is very limited. This is meant to be addressed by having building upgrades, increasing efficiency without taking up much more space, but with progression being so slow oftentimes you end up not being able to take advantage of this.

Also, basic resources like wood and stone seem to not grow back much (if it grows back at all for stone), and I can see a player getting kinda stuck with few raw resources to refine, though I haven't gotten that far so maybe it's not that bad. scavenger parties can probably assist with this, but it's not a perfect solution.

all and all great though. been extremely fun of what I've played. recommended for people who like breathing

An enjoyable little indie survival game. There's a relax mode for when you want to chill out (was perfect when I had the flu) and survival modes that are varying levels of challenging. Looking forward to when the game is fully finished :D