The hell do you think game development is? It WILL take 5 years, at least! If you think this game will be done faster than that you are deluding yourself. There's a reason why big game studios usually announce their game project around the end of development; so you don't get to see the 5 years it took them to get the game into any playable state.
i m just saying... comparing this with AAA company or such is pointless.
need to keep in mind that AAA company have a "budget" that can reach millions $$ to build the game.
also rarely see big game studio working with less than 20-30 people minimum, 24/7, with years of experience behind them.
sure wild life team have experience and such, sure they work on it 24/7 (maybe not
), but they dont have the millions budget to make the game.
difference is, theses big game company have a limited budget, if they go out of it, they fail. they also have ETA at base (even if it's not mentionned publicly, they can't take forever to do the game and release it, hence situation like cyberpunk 2077 unfinished hot shit.)
wild life team have no ETA, and probably dont plan any of it, because the long they take, the more money they got from it. instead of a limited millions$ budget, they got infinite budget spread. so the game could take 5 years, as much as it could take the whole century to come out. and they aren't 30 to work on it.
they also didn't advertise their game publicly as much as a "normal" (non porn) game will do.
so, just saying, you can't compare this with big game company. it's totally not comparable. it will be like comparing space x with my whole neighbors building a cola-mentos upside down giant plastic bottle rocket to reach the moon.