Oh my gosh, I got the notification and your name rang a bell! Hi there!
MERCANOID is extremely close to release. My target was the end of June, but the Steam Summer Sale just started and I'd rather wait until that storm is over - even keeping in mind that MERCANOID will be free. I'm using this time to add in some additional content, but it is effectively complete barring a few unhooked Codex entries and setting up the offline mode filepathing for images used.
I'll be setting up a Discord for it and future projects (of which I have many planned) when MERCANOID releases, if I can hit that intended target of mid-July!