I played through the beta, which covers 9 days ingame.
It is indeed deeper and more challenging as it first seems to be. The player is facing some heavy decisions - that will have consequences. For example, one day a girl gave me a letter, begging me to not let a certain guy into the country, she was afraid he might take her passport away and force her into prostitution or something.
As he approached later to enter the glorious country of Arztotka - or whatever that crazy place is called - I let him in, cause errors cost you 5 credits. Precious credits you need to feed your family, pay rent, pay for heating and medicine if someone in the family is sick.
A day later, the newspaper reported a young girl being found dead at a strip club (it was her...)
That made me feel quite guilty
Seriously, this game is great!