It definitely looks like it might have potential. One odd thing I noticed though is that the same publisher has another early access game, that opened up to early access on Steam about two years ago, which looks extremely similar.

I can't help but wonder if this might be a project fork branded as a new product. Tried to do some digging on both development teams, but couldn't find anything on Long Jaunt besides a WIP placeholder for the company website.

Granted, devs understandably can and will reuse their work for other projects because it just makes total sense, and there's usually nothing wrong with it. The only issue is if the developer shifts all of their resources over to the new project, abandon the old one, and essentially shaft all of the customers who'd supported the first game.

Which also might not matter as much if they weren't both under early access, advertising for money and support to finish the project(s).

It definitely looks like it might have potential. One odd thing I noticed though is that the same publisher has another early access game, that opened up to early access on Steam about two years ago, which looks extremely similar.

I can't help but wonder if this might be a project branch labeled as a new product.