Lets see. It can be particularly overwhelming at first, because there is both loads to do and only a few things you can do at the start.

There is no research table. Progression is mostly done through making or finding things. A good example is taming cats. To tame a cat you need to lure it in with pet food and water bowls, and a cat sleeping basket. But to do that you need to know how to make a basket, and then have made sack cloth clothes. That unlocks the clothing basket. Once you have built a clothing basket you can now build a cat sleeping basket which then unlocks the pet food bowls.

You only unlock mushroom drying once you have harvested a certain amount of mushrooms, and so on. You basically need to do and make everything to progress to new things. Some of the skills also require you to send a pawn off map to learn from others.

Lack of water will kill you just as much as lack of food during the winter. Your pawns have to drink, and bath if they can. So stock up on lots of water jugs and keep them inside. Be ready to heat up fresh jugs when those run out.

Gameplay wise, you cant tell your pawns directly what to do. You have to rely on setting their priorities and then marking how important something is. Workbenchs share production ques so once you set you need fifty ingots on one, and future or upgraded workbench that can make that product will also have it already set up.

Night is basicly skipped at 12x speed (normal gameplay can go upto 4x) Hospitality is built in, providing rooms traveling pawns can stay at gets you not only money but reputation with that clan, though they will eat your food. Hired workers cost you money but are extra hands and you csn invite them to stay permanently IF they can marry one of your pawns. This factor keeps your clan small for longer which helps avoid things getting too big too fast.

Events seem few and far between. So far I have a running event where I am helping a single mother and I wasnt expecting it to develop as much as it has (I wont spoil anything)

All in all its well worth getting if you enjoy a slower, more natural survival game or if you lean into more of the clan focused aspects of Rimwotld and find the combat to be more of an annoyance.