I think I will manage to have chapter one totally completed by february and then I will put up a steam-version. It will require a lot of polish after act 4 and the alternative act 3 is done. Not all chapters will be as long as the first one, it will mostly depend on the story. First one is a speedrun through the entirety of Sarah's life more or less, second chapter will be divided into days instead of acts and take place during a week so it will be a lot shorter. Runtime of 3 hours perhaps. In total this will be massive if I can complete it, I am hoping for a development time of about three years.
Some pretty minor spoilers:
First chapter needs to do a lot of heavy lifting since it introduces a bunch of concepts which will be important for the overall narrative. A lot of these concepts will be further explored in the following chapters. Chapter two will explore the "blue dust drug" and more of the citylife and the general decay of society going on, chapter three will take place on a big converted oil-rig which acts as a power plant for "ghost profanation, aka memory burning" which is something you might have seen mentioned. Sarah's mom used to work at a power plant, you might remember Billy talking about this in the first act.
The spirit sickness and curse is actually really important for the overall narrative and will be a part of all chapters. These are some very light spoilers. I try to plant clues and drop hints for later stuff throughout the story while still maintaining a human core and focusing on the people who experience this nightmarish reality.