(Tested on Arch Linux)
The game has a built-in manual and it is a great plus
It is roughly understandable how to it was meant to be played and what it is all about, however bugs really hinder the possibilty of learning the rest by trial and error.
First, manual button at the start is broken and freezes everything.
Second, and most annoying, is that building screen does not work in any conceivable manner.
When you click a building the FIRST time to select it for construction, it actually builds (although the icon is not changed accordingly when construction is finished. It is changed only when you exit and enter the city)
However THEN strange things start to happen, like when you want to build a second building.
For some reason you can no longer select a place, and once you click, you
1.) erase (at least visually) the first building that you built
2.) build not the second building, but actually the first one.
3.) And it seems like the cycle repeats on and on, building a poor fishery or anything repeatedly till a city dies with tons of food but no water.
The scope was probably a tad bit bigger than 9 days really allowed to produce reliably.