With alpha 4 patch 7 I now cannot play without the game crashing. The first time I launched the game with he update I managed to play for a short while, year 2 month 6, but since then the game will either crash on the initial loading screen, the main menu or straight after loading a save file.

Is anyone else having the same problems?

I have the same problem with crashes. If I start a new game I can play until November, as soon as December comes I end up on desktop

I spent some time with the game the last few days (over 400 inhabitants). There were no crashes for me with the current version (0.4.7.7). I hope it's settled for you as well.