I've read throught some comments and i'm disappointed. You guys should at least research about what you comment before stating your opinions as a fact. What i'm saying now IS my opinion, but it's what i gathered from my time following the game too.
Claire's Quest stopped getting monthly updates for mostly 3 reasons. And yeah, it was usually Claire's Quest updates for two months and Overgrown for one then circle it (back then Overgrown was called Dystopian Zombies i think).
1. It's well know that Patreon 'bitched' about some content on adult games some time ago (i do understand their approach, but i still think it's bitching, but thats my opinion and don't matter to anyone), well Claire's Quest has *a lot* of one of their 'banned' content(more especifically, rape). It means that the Dev couldn't really advertise the game without risking retaliation, so they stopped with the monthly updates after some time and even mostly advertising on their patreon page, turning to their Discord instead.
2. They started working on the overhaul of the whole game too and boy it was a lot of content to go throught. So it delayed content for quite some time ( and they never stopped with the Overgrown development). The results are plain for anyone to see, the game got a lot better graphics. Quality-wise it skyrocked in my opinion.
3. Then we reached near the end of the content for Overgrown, so they focused on that a lot to make sure the game could get ready for the official lauching on Steam without bugs and any other major problem. And yeah, it makes sense they would release their game on Steam instead of making it free, they need to profit out of it now that the development ended and they won't be getting patrons for that. It would be the same as an artist or musician on patreon selling their content for free (while some does, most don't and it's understandable because it's their fucking job?!).
To sum it all up, we will probably be seeing a lot more content for Claire's Quest from now on, even if COVID probably caused some problems. Unless i'm incredible wrong about the Dev...(And of course they want money, they started making this for the money. There's no Dev who would start making a game without at least paying attention to the monetary profit, as i said it's their job.)
P.S. And i didn't even talked about a hell lot of problems the Dev got with artists not filling their quote or suddenly vanishing without delivering the art they comissioned, yeah they had a lot of headache for that.