Wow! really cool concept I love how it used the theme, the gameplay was so engaging and it looks really cool too! I played this a lot! I love it!
My biggest wish is that the cards don't toggle between up and down on mouse hover and instead only are raised when they're currently being moused over, and don't raise up that high, like in Slay The Spire or Balatro. It made it unwieldy and difficult to control and when multiple were raised they overlapped each other and became unreadable. Also, it would be good if you saw the text while it wasn't raised even if it was smaller. If the card UI was easier to use and some balance tweaked this would probably be my favourite game of the jam, really well done!
I got very close but couldn't beat it, As people eat food every day, having buildings create people makes it very difficult to sustain as food requirement scales exponentially. The best strategy felt like keeping population as low as possible while stocking up on food and money, not buying any buildings that create people until right at the end all at once. Lastly, it would be good if you didn't get cards for buildings you already made as it got frustrating having almost all the buildings except 1 or 2 while the population number is massively increasing but drawing only buildings I've already placed.
I'd love to play some more though, really impressive for such a short period of time!