Great game. Fantastic visuals. Well told.

Unfortunately the communication regarding pricing from the dev is absolutely atrocious. There used to be a 10$ tier before the dev raised to price to 20 and now lowered it to 12 again and from what I've seen nobody who donated for that 10$ tier has retained access.
Worse yet, any questions in regards to this have been conveniently ignored by the dev. 

For those reasons while I highly recommend you to play the free version I'd recommend you just as much to not give them money. You don't know when they decide you no longer have access to what you paid for and you can be sure there will be no communication in regards to this.