Since lots of people are still coming here confused about the project's future, I'll put this out on the dev's behalf since he never bothered posting it here on Itch (I don't know why he didn't, that was a strategic error on his part if you ask me)
This game is essentially on indefinite hiatus right now, owing to the developer receiving a full-time job offer which he announced about one year ago now, in the summer of 2024. In said post, he declared that he'd had a great time working on this but just couldn't financially justify not taking the job, and that he felt there'd be no way for him to keep working full time and also produce Evermore at a pace or quality level he was comfortable releasing.
He also announced, however, that he was planning to continue Evermore eventually, but in another medium (probably just text only format) this time, rather than visual novel. That's what the latest announcement, from September 2024, is about. Hope anyone revisiting this page, or visiting for the first time, who are confused about what's going on here, finds this helpful.
P.S. I'm not associated with the dev or anything, I was just passing through and figured some people might wanna know this stuff so I decided to throw this out there on my own, don't expect any more answers or details about this from me