This game is not dead, like other comments have said it is still being worked on, patreon and discord updates are still happening. The last dev update was October 14th. The dev is still interacting with the community.
Would be great to have one of those dev update from patreon to the public. On the announcement discord channel or any public platform, its been dead silent for over 9 months. Cant really blame people for thinking its dead.
