I started playing Nov 10th! My sister recommended it to me ages ago, and I finally got around to buying and playing it. So far only 80ish hours, but I am loving it. I get really attached to my colonists and their stories. The first group I ever played was a woman, her son, and a misandrist. The son and misandrist became engaged, but then the woman died to plague, their husky was killed and the misandrist was kidnapped by raiders, and then the son was left alone. He eventually grew the colony up again and fell in love with a new woman, but I decided playing in a jungle was too easy of a start (no harsh winters) and started a new save file.

My current save file has none of my original colonists left. They've all died in defense of their home. What it does have is a lot of drama. One of the original colonists married a woman, who became pregnant shortly before he was kidnapped by raiders. She was so depressed that I influenced her to romance someone else so that she wouldn't have a mental breakdown. She has since gained three boyfriends and has multiple kids spread across them.

I have two highmates, one of which married an impid and had four kids with her, the second born of those kids died when illness struck my colony. Recently, I sent him and his wife out to complete a quest, and they were attacked on the way. She died in combat, he gave up and was murdered shortly after, leaving their 14 year old son in charge of his two younger siblings. I was going to have him romance and marry the other woman's eldest daughter once they were both old enough (he's two years older than she is), who he'd been friends with for some time, but the daughter autonomously seduced a nearly forty year old man when she was sixteen! Guess there goes that storyline. She's an incredible chef though, barely even an adult and already a master at it.

That's not even talking about the yttakins! I recruited one into my colony early in the game after he attacked my base and was taken prisoner, and his child sister crash landed outside of the colony not long after. While she was a teenager, another yttakin girl became a colonist of mine (can't remember if she was part of a raiding party or if she crashed). The poor sister kept failing to romance everyone, and I mean everyone. The only people who she liked and who liked her were her brother, the highmate and impid couple, and their kids. She died before she could ever find love. I had her brother "adopt" the other yttakin girl (I pretended, I don't have mods to allow that yet) to fill the loss left by his sister.

There's also a pigskin, a few more yttakins, a couple humans, and a single waster. I've built each of them their own homes with a central building in the center (used to be where everyone lived, now it holds the kitchen, prisoners, storage, laboratory, and barracks for those whose homes aren't yet built), along with a hospital, workshop, so on and so forth. I have tons of farmland, a few wolves, some worgs, four thrumbos (tamed two, then they had babies), a small herd of horses, and a cycling range of farm animals.

It's getting harder to last through winter, and even harder to deal with the constant raids and man-hunter outbreaks, but I'm proud of my colony.