One thing is a post on "X" or Patreon. Another is an alpha release. This game hasn't even moved to alpha, he put out a tech demo, but that's a year ago. A year has passed and he lost God knows how many patrons because he chose to release the game on Patreon long before he was supposed to. He had one animation (and rough at that), and a shitload of placeholder sketches, and that's what the game was when he put it on Patreon.
Doing that and then working on the game for a year just for an alpha version ... it's just way too long time for people to bother.
Even though the chick looks meek and cute, and the idea of training her sounds fucking great. It's wasted on too long development time.