I'm only just starting to look into developing, but from someone fresh to the scene itself, it feels like scope creep tends to be the challenge with some of these games more than the cohesiveness or development of characters. Maybe I'm way off, though?
Even if you look past the story not getting that far, the renders are just not that special anymore.
In a way, you're right, but still, the rendering was high-level for its time when the game appeared. I am most confused by how the author refuses to produce his game, when it was very popular from the start and some of his patrons supported him for a long time after he stopped working on the game. Where do the authors of abandoned games lose their desire to tell their story? Unfortunately, there are many abandoned games.
Um... wut? This has been marked Abandoned for 5 years now. What "upcoming season" are you talking about? Does that word mean something different wherever you're from?
Actually, it would be great if the author surprised us all by publishing an update to the game, but this is a very fantastic scenario that I don't believe in. You're right. Buddy, unfortunately, it's been abandoned.
