Perfect S
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You get used to it after a while. With practice it's easy enough to spot the the red flags. This site if full of "abandoned" projects after all.
Pattern recognition goes a long way to predict how a particular game's gonna end up. There are basically 3 kinds of games/projects:
Ones that progress smoothly at a good pace with a clear and realistic finish line set by a passionate dev.
Others that don't and end up in the "excuse pit" as you called it before being inevitably abandoned down the line.
And finally, others that won't really get the "abandoned" tag but will never be finished either, as the dev just does the bare minimum to keep it afloat with a couple small "updates" per year, while teasing/promising content that will never come. This kind is very common among larger games with sufficient patrons where the goal is to keep a stable paycheck and not finish the project itself.
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