I was about to give this game a try, too.
Typically the abandoned tag isn't given unless the dev is silent for like, six months, so somewhere the dev must've stated that they were no longer working on the game.
And to be honest, if I received the type of feedback some people have left, I'd quit, too. Don't get me wrong - there is a place for constructive criticism and stating things you don't like about the game that can be improved upon, but a lot of people were downright pieces of shit about it. And based on the dev's responses, it looks like they got fed up.
This is speculation on my part (I have no intention on checking if I'm correct), but kind of how I'd handle it.
Anyways, we'll see if the dev decided to pick it up again, or is washing their hands of it.
But I didn't stopped this project because of bad critics and nasty comments
I kind of not good enough to continue the story you can say writer block, I might back come it might take a year to 5 and there is one another reason I stopped was Financial supoort in my 5 year making this VN i didn't ever even reach $100 mark in Patreon and sales of itch store not well.
Whatever i stated the reason behind me leaving this project. When I have funds and time I will come back and complete this story there is alot i can do with Lost hope