It seems like work life, when you think that you are evolving and accomplishing, the game comes and makes everything 1000X harder.
I'm playing with 2 friends, each one doing one task, as it is still frustrating.
I have mixed feelings about this game.

This might be a cool game but I got right out of it and requested a refund when I saw that main character movements cannot be controlled by mouse. Some players might be ok with WASD but I very much prefer to use mouse on PC. This isn't some RPG and other actions do have mouse controls. But even with key controls, why is spacebar used as "exit". This game has weirdest controls of all the games I've ever played in my life.

Also didn't care for a very long introduction and reading a story. This game might be more appropriate and interesting for a child.

This feels so unintentionally clunky because of poor design choices, I can't recommend it at all.

You have very limited slots for "what kind of minions" you can equip, so to optimize anything you need to CONSTANTLY swap them in and out. That forced pigmin gameplay component adds NOTHING, it's just so incredible tedious.

This tree needs chopper-minions, this stone needs stone-minions, this path needs carry-minions... jfc.

And instead of path finding, "every minion just goes RIGHT all the time" which makes using them for transportation an absolute chore. Crossing paths means they are stuck.

Also can't build anything when a resource is present, like wood from a chopped tree. So you have to CANCEL building, pick it up (with a very limited backbag), go back into building mode.

Same for building paths, have to cancel patch-building mode, select your minions, send them to chop a shrub, and only then can you continue.

And you can't even cancel out of building into your inventory or something, you have to close it first. And that goes fro basically every menue.

By forcing this Pikmin-stuff for no reason they lost any sense about usability and what is actually fun.

This wants to be an automation game first and foremost, so why focus on that other aspect?!