Overall I highly recommend

Pros:
Tutorial is pretty in depth without being overbearing
The currency system is easy to understand and I like it a lot (you get "gold" at the end of each day based on what you've place in the world)
Tons of floor options, decorations, animals, plants/veggies/fruits all to work towards the goal (story spoilers I wont spoil)
There is a creative mode
Animal synergy is cool but somewhat difficult to comprehend at first. Things like rats don't want to be near owls for example for obvious reasons
There's loads of content and from playing the story I can already tell how fun the creative will be if you are into that
Many achievements

Critiques:
Combat is very basic, there's a magic system but don't expect much combat wise
Habitats are automatically generated based off of surrounding items, plants ect. The issue is if you have goldfish for example and a frog habitat spawns on it, frogs will keep spawning wanted you to place it in that habitat but goldfish and frogs cant share space. So unless you want to get rid of your goldfish be prepared to be slightly annoyed the whole play through.
Animals are similar, automatically spawn after a random amount of time after a habitat of its species is built. This isn't super problematic but I wish they were purchasable optionally so you don't need to wait to populate your areas
Some habitats are very annoying to try to get functional, as some have a very small area and you need to get an almost perfect balance of items inside it which doesn't allow for much creative control or any decor in the habitat

Basically habitats can be needlessly annoying but that doesn't stop me from heavily recommending especially if they make some fixes. Overall 8/10 game for me. But please fix these habitat issues and make combat a bit more engaging and it'd be near perfect imo

The game could be great if they could sort out the habitat mechanic, currently habitats are assigned automatically to an area that mostly meet the criteria, the issue with this is the game scores you for the habitats. How can you tie the progression and score systems to a mechanic that works on its own?

Let me give an example, I set up a pond for goldfish they moved in, few mins later I get a notification claiming they were unhappy, my response was one of confusion it had a 200% score, turns out the fish had spilt up and now had 2 homes both which over lapped each other and half of them was land, I cannot move or remove a habitat once its there it stays (there are some creative ways to get rid of them)

My solution was to make another pond and move some of the fish to it, again they were unhappy as frogs then moved in and occupied a part of the pond thus forcing my fish to leave.

Look I get what the dev wants they want a naturally growing eco system, this would work if you didnt tie it to the core progression systems, I as a player am being punished for stuff I have very little control of.

In order for both parties to win here I'd suggest making it an option, simulated vs manual that way players who want total control have it and you as the dev can still have the simulated.

I do also have an idea of a way this could work with the desired vision, remove the limited habitat area and have them check the garden as a whole, the criteria wouldnt need to change, you can even still keep the planner as this will still help players set up the conditions, im not sure how you'd tackle restricted creatures maybe the animal just wont move in if they are within a certain distance?

Excellent casual game with enough stuff going on for non-casuals as well. You can truly play at your own pace without being punished in any way. Progress may be slower but progress is also subjective. Make things pretty or efficient or challenging. The choice is yours.