It does exactly what it says, you build a village, slowly, laboriously, everyone dies, you build a new one etc. I wish there was more development. That hovels became houses, became mansions etc. That the settlement grew more and allowed you to grow more. Your trading post became a shipping post, shipyards etc. The trading could be off screen to avoid the whole conflict issues but more richly develop the trading/management/development. Basically a progression through time as you go from medieval(?) to whenever. I will say the support for user made mods is fantastic and shows how smart the developer is by allowing & supporting a thousand free programmers and graphic artists to develop it in different directions. I haven't really downloaded any of them, just playing the vanilla game to get an idea.
