ok I played the game a bit and found it quite fun but a bit simple , it had fun mechanics and also some questionable ones. The artstyle is great with a sprinkle of cuteness .
Overall the game is worth but there isn't perfect.So I'll count some annoyances I found while playing the game:The foraging is completely luck based and any skill involved does not exist . You could get 3 protein rich egg drops on some runs and then some runs you just lose because the first thing you get is a snake that eats your only female ...
The snake attacks on the den are ok as keeping only 1 adult (Most likely a male) is reasonable to keep the pups safe but the snake attacks while foraging is just unfair . What's the point of sending your only females to forage in early game if she's just going to get yanked by a snake? 90% of people's runs will end because of a random snake attack killing their only female.And sometimes you are forced to send your female to forage when your pups are old enough and if your rolled a 1 in your d20 then tough luck buddy guess you lose try again! It makes the game a bit insufferable.
The second tick that itches me is the way you keep your pups alive ...to keep the little buggers alive is by escorting AND only by escorting . You have no other choice other then to escort the pups because keeping them in the den is pointless. Apparently these mongooses in game , mammals I say don't have breast milk to feed the pups ? There's no point of keeping the original mother to babysit or even a female in the matter as their life force just doesn't go up other then going escorts and as I said before going foraging is too risky for you females so actually raising pups is slow and dangerous.
But overall I think the game is a nice treat that makes you learn a bit about wild life and a fun time waster if you don't mind the snakes [: 9/10