Just picked this up on sale.
It's a hard game. So many ways to lose in the first week. I'm up to day 8 on my current attempt, and it's not looking too crash hot.
This is way harder than most games of this type where you really have to fuck up to fail. Usually problems are easily solvable. Run out of houses? build more houses. Run out of resources, go collect more. People get sick, heal them, etc. Easy.
In this game, you're freezing to death, 2 dozen people sick, turn the heat up to try to keep people warm so they stop getting sick, run out of coal, go gather more coal, people are getting even more sick out mining in the cold. Coal deposit runs out, realise there's no more so you need thumpers/mines. Don't have enough wood to build and/or research those because you had to build so many hospitals due to all the people sick from the cold. Need to send people to get more wood, but too many people are sick. Not enough workers, discontent maxing out, so many things you need to do and no workers or resources.. ahhh. oops they lynched me, problem solved!
Fun!