What are your thoughts after playing the demo?

I have only played the first easy level so far. Completed it and had a play around.

Despite my initial skepticism, the game is growing on me.

I still have some reservations though.

Good Points:

I like the equipment and the freedom in choosing how I complete a section. The equipment feels ok, handling could be a bit less racecar like, but overall good.

I like the maps and I can see how having a bigger map would lend itself to a lot of fun gameplay, especially having the option to pave sections and repair sections.

Just for a giggle, I tarred the road out of the sand quarry simply because I could. Knowing I could create a road over the swamp sections if I wanted to is great.

Dislikes: (Less than I thought there would be.)

No easy way to switch between vehicles without going back into a menu. 

Despite taking some difficult routes, i never felt there was any danger to the truck. No concerns with getting stuck or tipping over.

I did intentionally drive off a steep ledge to see if IO could dislodge my cargo, but it stayed firmly on, and was reset when I reset the truck. There does not seem to be a way to bring up a second truck to recover the first one or to recover the cargo.

I really, really dislike the endless supply of stuff. Infinite tar, the machine just keeps itself topped up. Great if you want to tar a great long road, but not good for my personal imersion.

Cable layer, again infinite supply of cable.  For me, I would prefer to be able to make cable and have to transport cable drums to the cable layer. Same for tar, being able to deliver tar to the tarring machine would be good. However, I can see that if you were tarring a long road, it could get tedious very quickly.

The biggest bug bear of mine is the sand!! Magic sand from the heavens. Also I feel that the radius from the actual quarry is too much, you only need to drive past the edge of the quarry to have your truck magically refilled. At least put a silo on the map and make us drive under it to get sand, or give us a loader option as well. 

Overall all, it is a nice wee game. I am still on the fence if I will buy it. I do enjoy what they have done, but there are a couple of small things putting me off, mainly that overall it feels like a kids game, everything feels like it is made to be as easy as possible, anything that could be considered to be "a bit difficult" has been removed or made easy.

That said, I will play some more hours and I will see if my opinion changes

i believe it was mentioned that the magically appearing sand is not something that will be in the full game, they just wanted to make it simpler for the demo so people could get on with building roads. the sand quarry area will most likely be far smaller such that you actually have to transport it. im not sure if similar things are planned for tar and cable, but i hope they are because that would be more interesting