I believe a year or farther back, they said they're working on a new game that isn't stuck entirely in a single location over a single night.
It was a lot further back then just 1 year. That was the vaporware i was referring to. Other then some bs short clip and a few stills that was feed up to keep the Patreon crowd quiet there is no actual Office Party game in development. Nor has there ever even been any substantiated indication there is an actual plan to even start. We just have a completely hollowed out surface claim made years ago at this point.
My general guess for the constant change in direction, and the different tweaking pre-existing code approaches they made to keep the game alive, probably boils down to having lost a chunk of the orginal dev team who have moved on from the company.
I've had fun for the last 2 hours playing around with this character customizer plays (I have it on Steam). Like I implied earlier though imo the too extremely limited options on the clothing assets is really holding that back from being so much better and more interesting. Combine that with more detailed face/body tweaks and i could lost in that stuff for days.