Nice game! It took me forever btw to realize I can click the wooden bars to buy stuff, because I didn't look at the screenshots. Also, you might want to change the UI in a way that the Shop and Worker Plaza don't cover such a big portion of the screen. It's already hard to do 3 things at the same time, I feel obscuring part of the screen makes it unnecessarily harder.
Hello, thank you for the feedback and for trying out the game!
I can definitely see how those big UI elements could have ruined your experience, and I'll consider making them a little bit smaller. If some other users also experience this issue, then that's definitely something I'll swiftly have to fix.
As for the misunderstanding of the wooden buttons' purpose, yeah they could have been explained better. There's a guide within the main menu, but it may not be sufficient enough (or not a lot of people can be bothered to check it out), so a proper tutorial could have definitely been better there.
Again, thanks for the feedback, and it's great to know that you enjoyed the game at least to some degree!
Yeah, it depends a bit on where you want to focus the challenge on for the players. If it's about time management and balancing, then I think the shop and worker plaza should not obstruct the game. If you want the hidden screen be part of the challenge, then it's all fine and adds to the difficulty.
To be fair, I didn't even check the guide indeed, so you could actually state that's my shortcoming ;-)