I've played both and they are nothing like this one...its easy to get stuck in and endless cycle with no progression. Dmd and project sage are pretty straight forward and go by the choices you make.....This one is do a certain thing on a certain day at a certain time.Then never play the two top games here you will cry " DMD and Project Sage " before you put your fish in a hot soup.
I don't know if things need to be done in a certain order to avoid breaking your save and getting stuck in and endless loop of doing the same thing every day and getting nowhere lol. A better example to throw out there would be A foot of the mountain and Tangled up...those 2 drove me nuts lol. Tangled up more so than FoTM.