Aesthetic : charming palette (esp. how it blends between day&night) and cute procedural animations : gorgeous, as always!

Gameplay : Surprisingly challenging considering the presentation

Balancing resources isn't that hard but managing your village gets micro-intensive very fast!

I really enjoyed the tiny epiphanies, like figuring out that if you build your wall next to trees, you can micro the worker from lumberjack to builder, saving a trip to the stockpile.

Or when I first managed to make a monster run in circles by making whoever had aggro retreat.

Tiny tweaks I would make if I had spare time :

• buff guard towers (maybe by increasing bow accuracy?) , I feel like they don't do that much compared to the tech investment and sparing someone to man them
•  tweak the selected/idle counter, so I can see if someone is slacking without deselecting 
• have people on their way to a job not considered idle
•  add option to see/outline townfolks through buildings, to spot idlers
•  explain which building's effects can stack, some of them are quite expensive to figure out by trial and error

Anyway, I loved the game, would absolutely recommend for the price. I am blown away y'all can make games this good that fast <3