The story, the rendering, the models, everything is excellent, the only big drawback is, no animation!
It is not a bug, it is a feature. It is by design to not having animation, also without the
animated tags.
If you have a spyglass or looking glass (with time machine) and can see through the developer's development process, you will find out that he lacks the required necessary resources to produce worthy animations, hence rather than shipping with sub-par quality animations (which will result in harsher backlash) I believed he opted to not have animations at all. It is not the he didn't want to but simply couldn't do. Not all developers are equipped equal, escpecially relatively new ones, which makes it very crucial that the fanbase is supporting the dev in one way or another.
*My 2 cents, I am not affliated with any dev or know any of them personally but it is merely my observations of countless hours spent on this site on so many game threads of seasoned and upcoming developers.