Is the upcoming 0.8 update counted among those 5-6 remaining updates?
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Cari has gone on record on his Discord that he doesn't like redoing/remaking stuff, so don't expect that kind of thing from him. Furthermore, he's already mentioned that he's planning to make the next game after Eternum with Honey Select 2 again, so he seems to be pretty much committed in not having his works ever grace Steam anytime soon.
Nope. Once in a Lifetime shares the same setting as Eternum, with the latter taking place more than a decade after the events of OIAL. The info about it is posted on the FAQ page on Cari's Discord, with the timeline based on what Judie said about Eternum launching a year from then and Orion's monologue where he said that it's been more than a decade since release.
Also, Orion's monologue at the beginning mentioned "Former President Stabb (Michael Stabb was Stabby Mike's real name as revealed in the OIAL Harem end)," so yeah it's been a while ever since.
No it isn't 80% done. It's going to go beyond 10 updates, with the latest estimate around 12-14 updates total by the end. So we're still about 50-60% done with the main story if the estimates hold up.
Source: https://itch.io/post/9573790
It's not gonna end in 3 chapters. Latest estimate by dev is that it'll go for 12-14 chapters total.
Source: https://itch.io/post/9573790
Full game will go beyond 10 updates (Cari mentioned somewhere here that he's thinking of gunning for 12-14 total updates by the end) so ain't no way this game is ending next year (or even 2026 for that matter if he ends up gunning for 13-14 updates...maybe late 2026 if he goes for 12 but no earlier than that).