If I'm not mistaken this game is under development since 2018... The indie game developer Warhorse studios announced 2 tripple A open world RPGs since then... Milking money with patch per year becomes a habit here... With this tempo... I'm not sure that the developer will be alive to finish the game... just saying...
we really won't compare the two games level of difficulty, right? Because KCD is 250 times harder to do... however... Тwo generations of bachelors have taken their diplomas and their lives into their own hands, while the main character is still a freshman. I'm worried sick that they won't be alive to see the main character graduate as well. If you catch my drift...
It's probably easier to compare apples with apples.
The idea of posing and rendering every single image for every single frame (of course many are reused) can't really be compared with creating a game engine. And while KCD is one of my favourite games ever, and I so am hanging out for KCD2, there's no point comparing it with this game.
A better comparison would be to compare it with all the other games on this site. And on that note, this is rated the 8th best game on the site, the developer has already completed a game prior to this, and it's clearly quite a momentous achievement in this industry.
Plus each release isn't a "patch" it's a new episode, an episode that takes about a year to create, with the developer actually working quite long hours (by his own admission). He unfortunately has a propensity for trying to include more and more each episode, and not always in line with what people here might want, but the game is still of a very high quality within this industry.
And as long as he continues to expand the story, and it's entertaining, it's no different to a TV season or something like that. It doesn't necessarily ever have to finish, although I believe there's only 6 more episodes to go (based on previous discussions from the developer).
And at roughly a year per episode, if you're worried about people dying in the next 6 years, maybe you should be focusing on their health rather than whether they'll get to see the end of a porn game...