https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jan/28/steam-early-access-first-wave-games-kenshi-valve

In 2013, Steam players were first offered the option to pay for unfinished games. We uncover the fate of that first wave of titles – some of which were never released

On 6 December 2018, game developer Chris Hunt’s magnum opus was finally complete. Hunt had been working on Kenshi, in which players navigate a tribe of people through a strange, low-tech alien world, for more than 10 years. You might think finishing it would be a huge milestone in Hunt’s career. But if anything, the opposite is true.