So far I have nothing but positive things to say about this. Lots of people will say it is a Banished copy, and in a way it is. Except with tons of extra features in it and a clearly obvious graphical improvement.

Pros:

• Easy to get the hang of
• User friendly interface and easy access information
• Lots of variety for buildings
• Terrain editing is simple and straightforward allowing for wide customization
• First person view allows you to control, play, and act as one of your villagers including doing their jobs and tasks
• Buildings are more than just a shell, having full interiors (rooms/stairs/etc)
• Houses give bonuses aside from just shelter and give more perks the higher "tier" a house is
• Houses can be upgraded instead of demolished to make room
• Game runs very smoothly with little to no graphical glitches/lag
• Map preview when generating a new world
• Weather features feel very realistic
• Music is fantastic, whoever that singer is, deserves a medal!
• Storage fills up visually with items you place inside (No mystery boxes of goods)

*I could keep going

Cons:

• **Edit** First hotfix fixed the issue with crashing for me.
• Some villager actions have no sound (pounding on a house with a hammer, etc)
• Would like to see some multiplayer or more in game combat actions
• No access to higher res as of yet (Is stated in game that feature is coming soon)
• Would like to see more variety in the music as it gets a little repetitive, give me more songs, they're great!

Overall, so far I'm having a blast playing this game. If I had to go off a straight choice of either Banished or Forest Village, I'd pick this game straight off as it has way more features, looks better, sounds better, and plays better. The extra depth that the 1st person adds, is a nice unique feature that I think a lot of similar games could benefit from and the game still looks GREAT in 1st person rather than choppy crap like a lot of other games do close up. I have been really excited to play this game, and am happy that the devs delivered. Both involved companies have decent reputations and I look forward to future updates. Thanks! 10/10 for an early access and 9/10 if it was full release!

*30+ hours now* Everything above still holds imo. They have changed terraforming to x5 speed and I'm loving it. After the area was cleared, I managed to level a mountain using one character, MUCH better. I didn't feel there was an issue before but then again maybe I did too much terraforming in LiF:YO *smirk*. Don't forget to take advantage of 1st person PoV if for no other reason than to buff your nearby villagers with a nice speed buff! The dev's have also stated they are adding more buffs to 1st person PoV so stay tuned folks, let's hope they do something good!