While Foundation is still an Early Access Game they have established a solid foundation (no pun intended) for a great game, and as they begin to flesh out details, it is coming together quite nicely. The game currently supports modding through the MOD.IO platform, but I understand that there are plans to add Steam Workshop support.

I enjoy City Builder/Village Builders like Cities Skylines, Banished, Forest Village, Depraved, and Osiris. I am, unfortunately, quite heavily addicted to trying to lay things out in perfect grids. Even in games that encourage you be more organic in your building, I find myself building a series of small grids. Foundation is the first game that has broken me of this. I love seeing how the town develops and grows.

The one thing that can be a bit tedious with this game is that it depends very heavily on really maximizing the distances your works move from home to their job as well as any travel they need to do in order to do their jobs. This is exacerbated by the fact that you don't actually have any control over where your workers live beyond setting up areas that are zoned for housing. It is entirely up to them to utilize them, and they may or may not build close to where they work. The only thing you can do about this is to periodically reassign jobs to everyone based on where they live, one at a time. This can be quite time consuming and tedious.

I do want to make clear that they are working on an update which will allow the citizens to automatically relocate where they live to move closer to their jobs. This update was originally scheduled for release in December 2019, but was unfortunately delayed. I don't see this delay as a bad thing. I would rather have an update delayed that see it released in an unfinished state. Hopefully this update will come out early in 2020. I think it will make an already awesome game even better.

I would recommend this game for any of my friends as it is still fun to play and I have faith that it will only get better as time goes on. Even if you decide it's not for you right now, I would definitely suggest you keep an eye on it to see where it goes as it progresses.