Thank you for playing the game and the honest detailed feedback!
I really appreciate you calling out the over-cluttered UI, I was way over in my head not realizing that the UI is so much at this point. You give a good suggestion on how to make the game view more understandable.
The top-down view aspect of the game really put players perspective that the game is a strategy game rather than a social one, yeah? Although a simple strategy game is the one I'm aiming for the gameplay, I still want a bit of the social aspect as the theme surrounding it. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll be sure to check Ikariam out later.
If everything goes well, I hope to release the game on Steam or GoG if players find it enjoyable to play and replay. But the project hasn't found the right footing yet, so I'm still giving it some dev time before deciding whether to wrapping it up, or to pursue commercial completion.
Thanks again for your feedback and good luck on your game too!