That is old news.
Due to popular demand he has stated that the sidescroller would likely be reactivated as its own project in the future.
To clarify there are 3 projects that we've seen so far:
- Project Unkown (tentative title was "Section 7", this has long since changed)
- Project Elimination (the 2.5d sidescroller, got nuked in hardware faliure)
- Project Elimination Rebuild (the current project, tentative title "OPERATION GROUND ZEROES: Sector 101")
since many people wanted the sidescroller, the dev stated that after the completion of
Project Elimination Rebuild he's considering reactivating that project using the assets created for the current one, making a it spin-off of the "serie".
Project Unkown and
Project Elimination Rebuild will share the same world, while
Project Elimination will be it's own game sharing some of the assets
Because of this,
Project Elimination Rebuild has been renamed to
Project Extermination to avoid overlapping and the use of the "rebuild" suffix.
TL/DR In the end, the current state of things is the following:
- Project Unkown (on hold; Horror / Survival Horror; waiting for bigger and more stable budget)
- Project Extermination (active; Action / Survival Horror; tentative title "OPERATION GROUND ZEROES: Sector 101"; planned release date: August-15-2023, content will be expanded with updates after that date)
- Project Elimination (on hold; Side Scroller / Survival Horror, Tentative title "The Forbidden Planet"; pending reactivation after Project Extermination is completed)
Note: all the aforementioned Projects are targeted toward an adult audience and have NSFW events as a core part of gameplay. The plan is also to release a SFW version, available in the mainstream platforms (likely Steam) and will be patchable to the NSFW version.
it's way less confusing than it looks, trust me