It's really hard to get into, there's definitely a huge learning curve. Updates can easily change major parts of the game, and you'll need to re-learn all that.

It's also really easy to mess up and ruin a save (provided you're playing with harder difficulties), but I think it's a really fun game.

Yes, even yesterday. In realistic, I built an entire Rail Construction Office and the utilities infrastructure of a small city with the oil extraction money from two fields. The learning curve got steeper with the research, demolition and garbage update, but the result is very rewarding and makes you plan out more. Oh, and they finally fixed the demolition "ghosts": after you demolished a planned building (transparent yellow) when paused, the plan remained after you resumed the time flow; now it works as intended

I have played it a bit before, but I left the game since it was too hard to get into 😅

Learning curve is vertical

I avoided it because I expected it to be just as much about a socialist state as Papers Please, might look into it.

saw "EA" in the title and was very confused for about two seconds

I saw it and thought it looked neat but I don't trust early acsess. The best commie simulator is stellaris anyways

I bought it a while back. As some others have said, yes, there's a steep learning curve. I tried a couple of times to get into it, but it hasn't stuck yet. The first time I tried to just figure it out. The second I started playing the tutorials, but just got busy with life and haven't had a chance to get back. I'm planning to give it another go soon.

No, but I think I saw Life of Boris play it once

I bought it a long time ago but couldn't get into it... I should try again, might be better now