I have a really difficult time playing this game. Gameplay is not obvious, and I haven't even played 10 hours and had to Google how to use items 3 separate times because this is not available in the in-game index. The priority scaling is counter-intuitive, as it's a scale of 1-9 how important the thing is (with 9 being the most important) rather than to-do list style 1-9 with 1 being the most urgent.

The game is very fast-paced, and you can easily accumulate more duplicants than you properly can have accomodations (food, beds, mess tables, outhouses) for, yet to get to that level you require more duplicants to do more jobs.

The game also seems to desire an uncentralized play style, with it encouraging shorter commutes by making different areas self-contained, rather than a centralized style with duplicants beds and eating in a single area. You also can't move things, only destroy and rebuild.

It's fun for first a few hours, then it's frustring.

The first 40-50 hours are fun, but after that it just got annoying. New technologies create more problems than they solve and as a result anything new feels more like a burden as opposed to a boon. Also terrible AI/path-finding doesn't help either. I had a duplicant run back and forth in a vacuum because they couldn't decide whether to go to the air bubble on the left or the base camp on the right and ended up dying as a result. Pure stupidity

I really tried with this game. It has awesome reviews but the game isn't for me. It is so complicated what all the different buildings do and how to connect them to make they all work. I feel like you have to do a lot of research outside of the game in order to play it correctly. I didn't like that.

Fun i guess, but not for me, too technical and gives me headache

Early game is fun to figure out but after that its just a management sim

Feels like work.

I started watching videos on YT of people playing the game back in 2017 when it came out as Early Access. I was hooked from the start and stuck to watching these videos for at least half a year; sometimes daily or whenever certain creators I watched back then uploaded a new video.
I was always interested in playing it and with the recent sale, I finally went for it and bought it. But now that I've started playing I'm lost and even somewhat disappointed.

My experience so far:
Last night I did my first sessions (of course I forgot basically everything I saw 7 years ago) and as a player I feel like the game has a bad start. Let me explain:
The learning curve is extremely steep and the game doesn't do much instructing new players on what to do.
Here's a few examples what I mean:

• You want to build something and after looking around for quite a while why you cannot do so you find out that it is because you don't have enough metal ore. But there is no "metal ore" item in the game - the game fails to tell you that any metal ore will work instead.
  
• You want to get rid of all the material lying around on the floor and of course you have the "chest" at the start of the base/the printer (or whatever it's called) - but the little guys won't clean the stuff up. I had to google to find out that I need other storage for them to do the job as the original chest won't take it.
  
• There's bottles with green liquid (dirty water). The game doesn't tell you what to do with them, how to get rid of them... nothing. Once again I had to google and now I use a bottle emptier only to dump the liquid into a hole somewhere on the map.
  
• Electricity or plumbing - no in game "tutorial" on what you need. Just info that a certain build needs electricity.
  
• There was one of my little guys who couldn't sleep... clicking around looking for a reason it took me while until I found out it was because it was too bright for him to sleep. I do not have lights in the base though. I even build a wall and a door besides him (same on the other side of the "bedroom" - still the same problem. Only when I moved all beds one floor up he could sleep.
  
• Something that seems like a huge waste of time: Nights. All of the little guys sleep - why not skip the night automatically if you cannot have them do anything anyway? Or is there something that can/should be done at night? If so, once again the game fails to tell me.

Summary:
I can build so many things by now after doing some research but I rarely actually do build any of those because the game doesn't tell me why I should.
You basically get thrown into the map without getting info on any end goal, like maybe a rescue team or getting to a point where you have a self-sustaining civilization... I assume all games ultimately will end with death for all. Either that or by simply dropping the map and starting all over again on a new map because things got way too chaotic and unorganized. Without much or any instructions on what to do and examples on how to do so (there's a few in game videos that will show you a very few things) I'm already loosing motivation to play. I wish the game would give me something to work towards that makes it justifiable for me to keep playing and e.g. sit through the nights basically idling. (Yes, you can speed up time and get through the night faster - so why not skip the night in the first place? The night is not needed to make plans for the next day if you can also pause time whenever you want).

Conclusion:
I loved watching people play the game 7 years ago and remember that I had some facepalm moments where I new exactly what the player should do but didn't due to lack of experience playing. Now I'm the one not knowing anything and I blame the game for not telling me, for not giving me a proper introduction, a quick rundown of what is going to happen, what I need to do to reach certain intermediate and what end goal (even it that would only be to survive as long as possible).

Do I recommend getting it?
Based on my viewing experience all those years ago rather than my own playing experience, I would recommend it.
Based on me playing it I do not enjoy it too much, without knowing what to even do, how and why. It's like a sandbox game without any goal, without giving the player motivation to keep playing towards a goal. I want to love the game as I did watching it - but unfortunately I'm far from it (for now). So based on that I would not recommend buying it.
Based on both of these different experiences I would give it a neutral recommendation - but that is not an option on Steam. Based on all the other positive ratings I cannot deny that the game likely does really good what it intends to do/be. But as for recommending buying the game... as of now I couldn't do so. There's other games I wouldn't hesitate recommend buying and playing after a few hours of playing - with this, I'm very hesitant and therefore would rather not recommend it than be partially responsible for someone spending the money and disliking the game.

(This negative recommendation might change in the future - I do want to love the game after all... I just don't, for now. I hope it keeps me playing long enough to not regret spending the money.)

とにかく問題なのは、物事を解決するのに何をどうすればいいのかよくわからないことです。
ロケットを飛ばせるところまで研究を進めても、どこを操作したら飛ばせるのかUI周りの説明も不足しており非常に不親切です。
さらにチェックリストを満たした状態で飛ばしてもパイロットが酸欠であっさり死亡することもあり、せっかく育てたキャラもあっという間に台無しになります。
ネット上で攻略情報を調べてそれで試してみても上手くいかないことも多く、しかも数十時間プレイしたコロニーもあっさりと壊滅したりするので、そういった状況が苦痛に感じる方にはお勧めしません。
ゲームシステムは現実の物理法則に沿っているわけではなく、あくまでもなんちゃって物理なので、現実から挙動を予想することは不可能です。
結局ゲーム特有の仕様を覚えて奇妙なギミックを作ってコロニーを回すという作業が必要になります。
個人的にはこの辺の「そうはならんやろ！」という違和感が一番苦痛でした。

I dunno, it's just isn't as enticing as I thought. I mean every time you solve a problem another problem shows up, but it it seems more event based than system based. Trying to back up and fix things is a challenge, which is weird for a base builder because it is an ever-changing thing. I didn't really get enthralled when starting and I kind of wish I could return it.