There hasn't been any update for months now here, his Twitter and even on Patreon.
I don't think it's dead, I decided to look into some of the stuff you mentioned and on his patreon a while back he said in the comments, "found out my lease ends in 11 days" or around that time when he was expecting a month, so I think he's potentially in a bad spot and can't focus on the game at the moment. especially since about 4 months ago he said to a meme about this being alive "i both cried and laughed at this, the next update is huge so it's taking a while, thanks for being patient!" and so if we combined the potential housing issue he might going through with the fact the update is pretty large, it might just be taking forever to actually finish. but if there's no news within around like the next 2 months, it most likely is dead.
decided to check on this again and actually got something. it's not good but it explains where the creator might be and if the game could ever end up getting an update. also it's actual news lol.
so basically the creator went missing entirely. he hasn't responded to ANYONE in 5 months nor has he logged in to any of his accounts in those 5 months either, and according to the artist for the game he hasn't been paid yet because of it, also this was after the creator got a commission of 1k to do something and then said he was taking a break for a little bit but since then no one has heard of him. uncertain if this means he ran off with the money and abandoned the game or if my earlier guess of homelessness is what has him missing. no one knows but it's a very high chance this will never get an update. sorry y'all.
I really hope he's ok and this was just a big problem/misunderstanding and he can pay the artists and continue stuff, but it's almost literally impossible for that to be what's going on.
also this is where I got this from https://twitter.com/Boar_red/status/1781334437755551839