In short: this game is great and I'm loving the experience. An absolute visual treat to a lullaby soundscape featuring well judged Morp sound effects. I very rarely buy games and I have no regrets with this one.

A bit longer:
I'm several hours into this and am now realising I've been incredibly inefficient -- but that is ok! There is no pressure to get things done fast, its fine to explore, and I like that muy bien.
I'd describe this as a pastel coloured satisfactory with jelly baby slaves - oh yes I am exploiting them; I've not actually played Satisfactory very long, way shorter than I have this game which is testament to its visual appeal.

The in-game guide doesn't give you all the information you need, which often left me with withdrawal symptoms reaching for an online wiki that doesn't exist, but in being denied this I'm having to learn through good old-fashioned trial and error, and it is actually refreshing in that I'm not rushing through the game or alt-tabbing which would have detracted from the experience. On the whole though a few more hints wouldn't go amiss.

Fishing sucks - sorry to say. I've played a lot of fishing mini-games in other titles and this feels way too rudimentary and yet mysterious as to what is happening when I hit E and it goes on for a few more cycles. Maybe its something else to figure out in time...

The more I play the more depth is revealed where I learn the errors of my ways and then spend time re-planning my layouts, there doesn't appear to be any resource penalty for breaking down and rebuilding (phew).

I'm playing solo and its just as much fun as I'd expect it would be with friends. I'm actually quite addicted and delving deeper and deeper into this Morp hole. Send help.

I enjoy this game. It is very cute, the concept is nice and the little monsters you collect are adorable. Definitely more for single player than multiplayer for a few reasons, but I will get to that. Having played with friends for a few hours I can say it has it's charm. However I have a few more gripes with it than I do praises.

-Firstly the forced togetherness to progress the game makes it very annoying to talk to the NPCs when everyone wants to do their own thing and is at different points across the map. This is fine for single player, but for multiplayer it forces everyone to stop what they are doing and come back to the NPC.

- Being forced to build around veins and resources with no ability to move resources closer to the main base without using the tubes system makes things look cluttered kinda ruins the world in my opinion. (If I wanted to play Satisfactory I would play satisfactory)

-The game spoon feeds maybe too much to the player. Instead of figuring stuff out on our own and being rewarded for it, every little thing has an NPC tutorial like quest for it. I guess it's cool if you're five and this is baby's first game, but constant tutorial island style gameplay isn't fun. Especially when things can be discovered just by exploring the map, and making Morp enclosures for different Morps.

- Restartability is abysmal, as the statements above make it so that there is only one way to play the game without having to go through the hours of tutorials, NPCs and one by one unlocking of things that older players have already unlocked with another group.

I want to like this game, and play it with my friends. With how it is right now, there is so much that makes it either annoying to play or un-enjoyable with multiple people. Freedom to explore and discover without major NPC tutorials for everything would be nice for future updates, otherwise this game is more suitable for single players only.

This game surprised me with how much fun it is!

It has a similar creature collection aspect to slime rancher in that the base monster morphs into other things based on what you feed it and can be evolved, and also has specific care requirements. This on it's own is fun if you like catching them all but the town building and automation aspects on top of it, as well as life sim style villager rep gains, really makes a well rounded game with an addictive gameplay loop.

The multiplayer experience is pretty great, although the one frustration I've had is having a conversation fail to start because someone in the group is holding something - a pretty minor gripe. The controls also take a bit of getting used to and aren't always the most intuitive, but you adapt to them pretty quick.

Will be sinking many more hours into this!