Recent reviews by Katamari

An awesome combination of city builder and resource management! All the fun of building cities with all the fear of death at any moment!

This game is great! The mechanics are tons of fun and you learn more about them the longer you play.
Took me 50+ hours to finally reach the true ending, and I would not consider any of that time filler.
And even with the game complete and released, the devs are still making free updates for extra end-game and post-game content.

A really great little game that is just as long as it needs to be. Really good at getting the player emotionally invested.
Highly recommended.

I won't say more because the less you know, the better.

Edit 2/1/2019: Still waiting for it to be good... maybe one of these days.

It will be good. Eventually. For now, it is death of a thousand needles. No one thing is wrong, but the game is full of so many minor flaws (with 2K/Firaxis giving no indication that they are rushing to fix things) that I cannot recommend it right now.

Some of the issues:
-Unbalanced civs
-Stupid AI (If you thought Civ V AI cheated but was stupid, wait til you see this)
-AI personality is overshadowed by stupid AI/diplomacy balancing/bugs (they declared war on you 5 centuries ago and now consider you to be a warmonger because of it)
-Terrible UI, both in-game and in the menus
-No support for Steam Cloud game saves (which Civ V had)
-Very limited custom game options or maps (no teams, and less than 10 map options with most of those being bad to play on. 6-pointed start with 10 players? Sounds legit)
-Maps are limited to smaller and less players than Civ V
-City-states are more random chance and luck than previous. (All players essentially get equal points to assign to city-states, so you can't really focus/ignore them)
-Bugs. Bugs. Bugs.

For now, it is fun but frustrating. Once these get fixed, then I will consider it good, but until then, stick with Civ V.