The author mentioned above that due to the high standards for the quality of their work, they have produced a bit too much content, which has led to a delay in completing everything by the expected time. Now, they are saying that the itch version will be released around mid-April, and the Steam version will be available in either June or July (they can't quite remember). If you, my friend, are willing to wait for a while, I'll go to the original post and copy the text directly over.
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Hey, thank you so much for providing the info on the author and the game's dev progress, I genuinely and really appreciate it! I totally understand the reasons for any delays etc...like I said above from earlier posts, to me it’s never about the delay, I am willing to wait for years or decades to get a game with good quality, and from the author's past reputations, it is always worth the wait for ryu's works, and I am very grateful for all of that hard work;
meanwhile the community has always been supportive, so it’s really not about how much time waiting, the author and his team can take as much time as they need, but the lack of updates or messages here on the website it definitely causes confusions and frustrations and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one, and I do understand the author might have his personal reasons or other factors in play for sure, so sadly this inconvenient situation happens because the lack of contact here from the dev team
it might be helpful if they put up little quick messages here to keep the players posted but anyway now thanks to you, people could log on here and see the author's post from patreon and get an idea about what's the plan for the game as we speak so that's good and I guess it doesn’t matter now what's been going on for all this time, what matters is that we have a potential release time and we could all start looking forward to playing the game in the near future right :))