On Steam the last dev note was from Jan 26, 2026 where they announced that they were going in for surgery the next day and would be drugged up for a while afterwards.
They talk about how they have figured out the game-breaking bug is in the time management code and mentioned how the original artist they hired to do background work's rate quadrupled and that they haven't yet found a replacement artist.
"let's talk about the game-breaking bug that has pushed things back. Essentially, we have narrowed down the bug to the time management code. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure the bugs causing havoc are due to how the new character information is stored. Somewhere in the pipeline, I believe the time management code is trying to reference information within a character data structure that doesn't exist. I still need to find which line is causing this and why, but I'm much closer to finally removing this bug."