Dead game
In all honesty, it had a slight glimmer to be a decent game, but the dev flat out murdered that.
Now it serves as a shining example of how not to make games. I eagerly await this thing to finally be posted up on and make it's grandiose debut to Steam so they can rip it to shreds. I actually may be waiting for that more than I am the game (and I'm not).
Well, even if it really is dead, it still has +/- 15 hours of perfectly good content.
Most abandoned projects get abandoned long before putting in that much effort.
Still, I'd prefer if it weren't dead so I'm just putting it on my long-term follow list. Along with the dozens of other interesting-but-on-Hiatus projects.
every once in a while, some old thing I nearly forgot about completely still releases an interesting update a decade later.
A lack of updates does not 'ruin' the game - what exists does not change. It just means the people who wanted more are dissatisfied and start whining in the comments section. *shrugs*
If you want to say it ruins anything - it'd be the dev's chance to make money from his game since a good portion of his target audience will have started ignoring the game title if he really does release a big update later.