Wow - so I contemplated buying the PC Version for a week now after having some experience with the Premium Mobile game......just do it. It's so worth the money even though it's technically early access and in open beta.
The open beta has amazed me way beyond what the mobile game already has. It's amazing game for idle play or direct play. It's a game for any creatives that love world-building and want to create their own lore for DnD or fiction writing. You can customize and create your own maps, kingdoms, villages, cultures, clans, religions, languages and subspecies.
The religions and languages, part of the "Beta Monolith" update seem to go so deep in their customization and how they play out in the entire world. And I'm really happy that you can trace back parental and child relationships through the genealogy tab. You can actually track how traits are passed down and their patterns, and manipulate them if you want.
The Gene Loci is crazy, I ignored it for the first 8 hours because I didn't look up a guide for it....it was overwhelming at first and then it clicked for me how to use it - it's like a puzzle, you can put different genes anywhere in the Loci but they need to have matching ATCG color-coded links.
There are so many races and species you can choose from, I can barely fit all of them on the biggest sized map. There's the typical Elves, Dwarves, Humans, Orcs. Yet there's humanoid versions of lemons (unacceptable!!! - Lemongrab), cats, dogs, lizards, frogs, armadillos, goats, rhinos, buffalos, sheep, foxes, snakes, penguins, CAPYBARAS, monkeys, LLAMAS, bunnies, .....garlic.....and more. They have animal and humanoid versions of these animals, some that create kingdoms and civilizations and can speak languages and others that are simply animals - you get to choose.
You can make an evil candy kingdom of evil gingerbread men and a psychotic paranoid kingdom of lemon people. You can make pacifist buffalos be forced to go at war with bunnies with bloodlust. Different species can join the same kingdoms, villages, religions, clans. The only thing species can't do together is procreate with each other. But you can even customize how each species reproduces, whether they require male and female, or even two parents, or if they give birth through eggs or by actual birth.
This game just seemed extremely detailed.
This game can be simple and played without much input, yet you can also customize every single thing and follow your favorites and be playing more directly.
I highly recommend this game to people who love procedural generation or colony sims. If you've already tried the mobile game, I would recommend getting the early access beta PC game over the Premium mobile game.
This game is like Minecraft and Civilization mixed together, with a touch of Sims.