wtf is up with all the hostility towards the dev in this thread?
It's kind of a mix of self inflicted hostility and the normal internet assholes.
To try and sum it up the game came on here couple years ago and dev interacted a lot with people here in the forums, getting feedback, attention and what have you since the base game was a mass of potential while occasionally dealing with the everyday dickwads that may pop up, nothing severe. Dev gets patreon and all that really going, picking up subscribers from here. Fast forward a bit and updates are super slow, dev isn't following many self set update schedules while still interacting somewhat here so some people get upset about it, not anything major but since he is taking subscription money more people felt miffed about it. Fast forward even more, the amount of content has basically stagnated, new updates were few and far between with mostly minimal actual content being added for mainly contrived sounding reasons. People are desperate for anything new on the title so people that are paying the sub start posting the "premium" version of the game every time it get's released to this site which gets the dev angry (you know despite most of his subs most likely coming from here or sites like this).
Finally a new update was coming with at least some new content after what felt like years of waiting and again someone "leaked" the sub only version and dev goes somewhat nuclear deleting every post they ever made on the site and stops interacting with any and all people here which spiked some vitriol. Come to find out a bit later that even before that and continuing after that the dev was constantly insulting and shit talking the people here on his sub only echo chamber discord which then inflated vitriol more and the continued lack of updates while asking for sub money to continue the project along with the dev basically refusing to get more hands on the project that some people are actively funding for a reason that most guess is greed over the sub money and you end up with the hostility here.
Like some are angry at the dev specifically for how they went about and are still going about the game and others just are disappointed something that had so much potential years ago seems like it's going to hard stagnate for what seems to be pure money generation. There aren't that many games in this style of corruption and luckily for the dev the artist he got to do the assets in game is great, which has been mentioned but the art is really what keeps attention to this project since the few other games in the same style as this one have worse art so a lot of people still pay attention to this one because they want to see this style of game with this level of art get completed but then they show up and see that there's been barely any content updates since months/years ago and the hostility unfortunately continues.