It is not recommended. The reason is not the game quality, but its tolerance and encouragement of malicious Mod activities.
As a Steam game, there have been extremely bad and contrary-to-community-basic-concepts behaviors in its Mod ecosystem:
Some Mod authors secretly implanted blacklist mechanisms in the Mod, checking the Steam ID when players entered the game. Once a match was found on the blacklist, the game would be forcibly exited without any prompts or notifications.
This is not just a "personal temper issue" of the author, but a substantive malicious code behavior.
Even more absurdly, the trigger criteria of this blacklist were completely opaque and extremely arbitrary:
A player was merely providing normal feedback on a bug in the comment section, without any offensive remarks, and was then added to the blacklist by the author.
After the source code was exposed by the community, the author:
Publicly admitted the existence of this function
Stated that he had "no problems"
Attacked the players who raised questions
Members of his small group even publicly insulted the players and threatened to upload virus-infected Mods in the Creative Workshop in the future
These remarks and behaviors have all been recorded publicly.
Even more disappointing is the official attitude.
In other games (such as RimWorld), the official has directly intervened and removed similar malicious Mods. But in this game, after a player contacted the official, it was discovered that:
The official showed extreme respect for the Mod author, referring to him as a "teacher"
Also gave the author surrounding gifts
Only asked him to modify the content in a "suggestion" tone
At the same time, the official expressed to the players that "the author has been asked to remove the malicious code"
And these inconsistent attitudes are exactly what the Mod author, due to being restless, posted in chat screenshots to prove.
In summary:
If you plan to purchase this game, please understand:
You are not only buying the game itself, but also implicitly accepting an official environment that tolerates malicious Mod activities.
If you care about:
The basic usage rights of players
The transparency and security of Mods
Whether the official truly stands by the players' side
Then please think twice before purchasing
