So, I will admit, as much as I am a fan of this game, I worry that we will not be getting another Remtairy game for a while, if ever, and even if we do, it might not be very good.
Development from the first Alpha to release took three years, until December 2021, and it has been another three years since then. What have we got in that time? A Gym DLC that was developed in a few months and then sat on for half a year before being released with no changes, the pube dlc, and the P cup DLC. I really don't want to knock Sachinama, as he put in a massive amount of work for all of these for developing the art, but they have not been code heavy (with Rem often very quickly getting the code done once the art is finished). Certainly it is a big drop off from Rem's coding pace while making Karryn's Prison.
Rem has admitted he has suffered from writer's block, but it has been quite a while and seems to have not gotten better. The P cup DLC was designed to let Sachinama work on something while Rem recovered, but I don't know if that actually worked. We haven't had a Subscribestar post since August, and now I see that his Twitter account is also deleted.
What do we have for the next game? The concept that it is going to be a strategy game. Now, this makes me extra worried, as the strategy game space is very packed with excellent games, and as much as KP is amazing, from the game design perspective there are many issues (an optimal build has no sex and is boring, imbalance issues, and other issues documented in this thread). KP is great as there really is no other game like it with the same battlefuck detail, but strategy is a tough space to enter as a two man team.
The final nail in the coffin for me was the most recent Ci-en post by Sachinama saying he was developing his own game without Rem. For me, that means that he has perhaps given up on the next Remtairy game. I would expect that if the next game development was going well he would need to spend his time on art for it, and would not be able to develop his own game on the side. Instead, it seems he too has given up on this next game ever really getting started, and decided to move on, with the door open in case Rem does get better.
Anyway, sorry for the long post! Just wanted to get my thoughts down as the lack of Rem update posts and Sachinama's update have made me give up hope after three years. What do you guys think?