Looks like Planet Crafter is out of Beta and 30% off (on Steam) - it's been on my wishlist for ages... (on either epic or GOG, can't remember which) and now there's a demo. So I'm starting by downloading THAT.
Edit: And I just noticed that my Palian bugs now have considerably more likes than my Palian character portrait, which I did not expect... (It's a well liked character - but then again there seems to be groups of fans for every character in game. Maybe if I had pictured him as an adult, all those romancing fans would have come out of the woodwork?)