I dabbled prior to the Steam release, and bought it on launch. I've only clocked 31 hours on Steam so far, and I really need to get back into it, too many games, too little time!
I came in after binging on Rimworld, so I think I ended up burning myself out a little on the colony management genre, but I regularly kept up with the subreddit and various YouTubers (love Kruggsmash's series).